At the last Code club of the year this week, we tried a fun microbit game that the kids really enjoyed and was also a great learning exercise.

For a long time now, my editor of choice has been Sublime Text 2. However, it’s best features are not obvious out of the box, and some need installing as packages.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, an animation can be worth even more! Sometimes a screenshot isn’t enough to illustrate a feature, but you don’t want to create a full-on demo movie. For a tweet-sized demo you just need a gif…

Since a few other developers on the OME team are showing an interest in starting to work on OMERO.figure, I’m giving an intro chat/workshop soon. So, here’s a few hastily assembled thoughts on what you might need to know…

In React.js, components should use props and state as the source of data for rendering HTML. The props is for static data and the state is for the component to store data that changes.

I’ve just been flicking through some slides on “Javascript Code Smells” from Elijah Manor’s blog post and picked up a few tips I’m going to keep in mind and thought I’d share.

I wonder if I’m making a newbie mistake here (just not found the “right” way to fix this problem) or if this is a neat way to solve a common use-case…?

We’ve recently been considering how to clean up the aging “jQuery soup” that the OMERO web client has accumulated over the years.

It’s a little late for the new year, but I thought I’d try and summarise my 2015.

Having recently read a bunch of end-of-year blog posts (linked from Jeremy Keith’s), I decided it’s about time I started a blog of some sort.