When designing and creating websites it is important to consider ease of use for those visiting the site. For the average person this is fine, but trying to imagine how a website looks to a colourblind individual is not easy. Now, however, there is a web tool which applies filters to your site, so you [...]
I really struggled to get moving today. The calf muscles were sore and running was difficult. I went round the first seven controls, including the long leg across the map, then retired. Which is rather a shame, as the course and area seemed to be good. From here it will be a couple of weeks [...]
On Saturday I attended a first aid course - to complete the final part of my Level Two British Orienteering qualification. I have been trying to attend such a course for a while, but the potential courses have, before this one, clashed with other commitments.
On Sunday it was off to Harewood for the first round [...]
Glorious weather to be running in today. Nice and sunny, but a reasonable temperature. Running at this time of year is good.
The course was really quick today. I ran 7:42mins/km, which is quick by my usual standards - back in January, for a slightly shorter course, I was over 9mins/km. I navigated cleanly [...]
I did not go to the BAOC event last week, as my heel was still sore. This week, with the event being fairly close I decided to go along. The heel has not fully recovered, but was good enough to run on.
I ran fairly well today. Managed to keep a consistent pace for most of [...]
The main struggle I had when I first started coding in Ruby on Rails was working out how to use tests. Ruby, and Rails, have a great testing framework, but I had no background in knowing how, and what, to test. As I have progressed with the language I have become more confident in writing [...]
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