If you've never been to a barcamp, it's certainly worth looking into. Nowadays they seem few and far between, but Southampton's is still going strong. I popped along on Saturday to this year's event and there was a wide variety to take in.

Barcamp Southampton 2016

I've just come back from Future Decoded - the Microsoft-hosted event keen to show you what's up next in the tech world. Weirdly, it all seems to run on Azure. That's funny...

Future Decoded 2016

It's a double-whammy of me in the latest edition of Web Designer! Aren't you lucky. It's a bit of a mixed bag, too. New developments in two completely separate areas.

Electron app and Web Animations API tutorials

Over the 17th and 18th of October, Google ran their Polymer Summit over in Tobacco Dock in London. While I couldn't go in person, I kept up to date with the live stream. Here's what happened.

Polymer Summit

The latest edition of Web Designer carries a tutorial I made for creating an autocomplete component with Polymer. It's a lot easier than you might think!

Build an Autocomplete component with Polymer

In my latest tutorial for Web Designer, I take you through all the ups and downs, left and rights, Bs, As and starts of the Gamepad API. It's all ready - plugin-free - in desktop and mobile browsers today.

Upgrade HTML5 Games with the Gamepad API

I've written another thing for Web Designer! This time it's all about getting to use ES2015 today thanks to the use of some nifty transpilers.

JavaScript Core Coding Techniques

The BBC Micro:bit was finally released on sale to the general public last week and I snapped one up to see what it was all about.

Hands-on with the BBC Micro:Bit

I've written a thing! It's all about JavaScript. You might have guessed that part.

Measuring Performance With JavaScript

I only seem to make conferences when they're a) at a weekend and/or b) when they're free. So it's a rare treat for me to head along to Web Progressions over at Google's Campus London.

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