Ben Grout
Grout the Younger – brother of Simon, Ben is our front-end developer whizz. Ben is the one who knows the Javascript libraries.
Like all great front-end developers, Ben understands how an interface works and can spot this at a code level. Whereas some developers can see beauty in the code, Ben is more interested in the end result; how it works. This is what makes him essential to any project that we take on. Ben’s finest moment can be seen in the crazy development he has recently completed on the new Chemical Brothers site. Ben has a love of music including Opera, and enjoys summer trips to Glyndebourne.
Recent Posts
Zend_Feed and changing the date
Just a quick note that will hopefully save someone a bit of time in the future…
When using Zend_Feed to create your RSS, don’t use:
pubDate => date(‘r’, $item->timestamp)
This doesn’t work as you’d expect. You’ll only ever get the current time. …
HTML5 Video and Canvas – a little game
Works in Safari, Chrome and Firefox
How does it work?
Mostly witchcraft but also Javascript and some of the new APIs offered to us by HTML5.
We start by embedding a video using the wonderful <video> tag. Then we hide the video. …
HTML5 drag and drop, Spotify and Yahoo! Music.
Drag and drop has been around on the desktop for ages. The web eventually caught on but it was a bit rubbish. Wouldn’t be it be nice if your web applications interact with your ‘real’ applications? Thankfully, HTML5 is great.
Introducing jquery.gratuitous
Lightbox is dead! Long live Lightbox!
Gratuitous is a jQuery plugin whose sole purpose in life is to show you a photo or video in a new and exciting way.
jquery.gratuitous is an exciting new way of looking at photos and …