
The name of this site was inspired by the late great Frank Zappa who’s studio is called the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen. In addition to this Stuart has a penchant for blueberry muffins so there wasn’t any other name that would have been right.
This site is all about every aspect of web development with a heavy bias on web standards, Django and Python.
Raised by wolves in Alaska, Stuart was brought back to the UK by the 1979 Anglo-French Alaskan expedition. From there he caught up in language skills and proceeded to move ahead through life. Fast forward 27 years and Stuart is now working as django developer for GCAP Media
Having previously worked for Yahoo! as a Senior Web Developer, working in the Yahoo! front-page and marketplace teams Stuart is an experienced developer who loves to do things the right way.
So far several of Stuart’s articles have been used as recommended reading for various web development courses in Universities and colleges in the USA and this site is read by web developers from all over the world. Stuart regularly attends conferences and events relating to web development and has also spoken at several industry events on various subjects related to web development
Stuart is a member of the Web Standards Group and the organiser of the WSG London Meetup, a community event based in london.
Stuart resides with his fiance Sandra and their 5 year-old daughter Emma and 2 year-old son Sean in the garden of England otherwise known as Kent.
Note: The views on this blog are those of the author and do not represent the views of the author’s employer.
Generally these days I’m tending to access mysql from the CLI but when writing a data importer script I needed to be able to see what tables I was accessing from two different dbs. Initially I was looking for an ERD tool but I stumbled across the successor to CocoaMysql, Sequel Pro. It’s both well executed and free which makes it my kind of app!
Robert Nyman has released a new and improved version of his inline js finder which now also locates inline styling as well as JavaScript. Inline code finder is a great way of identifying the kind of code that should always be avoided. More details can be found at Robert’s site. Plugins are available as standalone Firefox and Firebug extensions.
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