This is the site of web developer, brownie baker, Australian and wife, Helen Emerson. I am currently a technical architect at Totaljobs Group in London, working on .NET sites.
The developer book club
I’ve started a new podcast called the developer book club where I interview someone interesting about what books have influenced and inspired them.
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How javascript objects work
This is a series of articles about how to use the javascript language features to write object oriented type code. It’s designed for people who are already sold on the idea of bundling functionality up into objects and want to know the javascript way of doing things.
Posted 4 years ago | 8 commentsLatest posts
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Tell me a story
on 14 Apr 12
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A little rant against the evils of services like four square that put your story-empty tweets into my twitter stream.
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Places to get good developer videos
on 21 Jan 12
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A list of places to find videos about being a better developer. These are mostly about all the stuff I care about for work: writing good code, .NET technology and web dev.
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The HTML5 audio tag
on 29 Dec 11
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The new HTML5 audio element now has pretty decent support across all browsers (even IE9) so is starting to be a pretty compelling alternative to using Flash. This article explains how to use the audio element, talks about which audio formats are supported by which browsers and how to control it using javascript.
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The developer book club
on 24 Apr 11
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I’ve started a new podcast called the developer book club where I interview someone interesting about what books have influenced and inspired them.
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Come work for TotalJobs
on 21 Feb 11
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We need some new mid level ASP.NET developers at Total Jobs Group to join our team based in central London. Be part of one of our seven small scrum teams and work on everything from CSS and HTML through to the database, from idea through to release. TJG runs seven job boards. Total Jobs is [...]






