365 Articles in 2015

Something I really let go to pot in 2014 was the amount that I wrote online. I enjoy writing and want to try and force myself to do more of it. This is why in 2015 I am going to attempt to commit to writing 365 articles. Here are the rules.

** Edit. This is now over **

** Edit. Some links have been removed since the content has since been either removed or reworked **

My Arbitrary Rules for this Arbitrary Goal

• It isn’t an article a day, I could have days without any and suddenly five appear at once.
• They don’t have to be all on my blog, in fact I will be contacting people to try and get guest posts and will be writing more on other sites I already contribute to.
• They don’t have to appear on a blog at all, so long as they are publicly accessible it will count (for example I might do longer Ello posts, or something like that).
• Each article should be at least 300 words, this is to stop me writing really quick updates and hopefully means the articles have substance.  (This means that if all goes well I will have written over 109500 words by the end of this, pretty cool!)
• The content can be pretty much anything, it will likely stay within the confines of what I normally write about but we shall see!
• I can ignore any of the above rules should I decide to.

Keeping up to date with my progress

At the bottom of this post I will keep a running tally of all the articles, this will likely be updated once a week or so, if you don’t see it being updated as often as you think please do give me a poke and let me know!

Do you run a site?

If you run a site and would be interested in having me write something for you please drop me an email. As well as getting free content without an agenda I will be linking to it here and other places.

The Articles

I made it 34% of the way through my task before I decided to stop.

1. You are reading the very first article at the moment
2. A recap of 2014 on The Footy Tipster
3. My Ello New Year Resolutions
4. Imagine your RAM was erroring
5. My Blog Post Guide
6. My Review of Veins (book)
7. Me talking about Backblaze
8. Gender Neutral Swear Words
9. Review: A Web for Everyone
10. Every Developer makes mistakes all of the time
11. A writeup of Francis Davey’s talk on Law for Startups.
12. What the <header> element can be used for
13. My Birthday Haul
14. What every web developer should know about SEO
15. Great iPhone games to play on the toilet
16. How I am using Omnifocus
17. Top football memes of 2014
18. SEO and Accessibility are tightly linked
19. Some quick semantic wins
20. Some stumbling blocks I hit following my first Swift tutorial
21. How you should properly caption an image in HTML
22. A way to view Markdown files in your terminal
23. Some of my notes from Seneca’s On the Shortness of Life
24. Making an app in an hour with Meteor and Heroku
25. Interview with Chris from MongoGoal
26. The case for accessible web design
27. My time at Buffer wasn’t great
28. Divs still have their place
29. Useful resources for content generation ideas
30. My thoughts on the latest TechHubTuesday
31. My research into Hearthstone APIs
32. Some great places to get football news
33. Please don’t actually use retweet/favourite polls on Twitter
34. The best new fish & chip shops in London
35. Why web developers should be using version control
36. Set Intersection in Ruby
37. The difference between Asian and European handicap betting
38. Why The Footy Tipster doesn’t give out free trials
39. Selling Vintage Belfast
40. Beginners Guide to ARIA
41. About section for CreepedIn
42. Writing about CreepedIn
43. Using Monodraw for making fun tweets
44. Rails migrations for beginners
45. My thoughts on Facebook’s Anonymous Login
46. CSS last-of-type
47. My first email out to subscribers
48. Good Habits for Student Developers – Part 1 – Backups
49. Squash a BR inside ContentEditable
50. How the technical direction of a project can be influenced
51. Great Football Twitter accounts to follow
52. What I would look for in a Junior developer
53. My thoughts on Refactoring large applications without tests
54. A quick way to create an iOS application with Meteor
55. POODIR on testing
56. My post on Time Keeping
57. Picking the right online bookmakers
58. Getting Money out of Uganda
59. Ruby’s Enumerable Partition
60. Patrick Jubb – Re-building the Marketing Department to be Fit for the Future
61. Robert Wint – Using Content to Improve the Customer Journey
62. Ana Serrano – Digital Transformation & Continuous Innovation: the CDO’s Two Paths to Success
63. Martin Trickey – Do we Tell Stories Differently Now?
64. Kerensa Samanidis - Breaking in to the online video market
65. Amanda Neylon – The Importance of Focusing on Social Strategy
66. Mark Elkins – From Passion to Purchase: Coca-Cola’s Digital Revolution
67. My writeup of day one of the Chief Digital Officer Summmit
68. Another writeup on the CDO Summit
69. Katrina Owen presenting Here be Dragons
70. Updating a slug on a live Rails system
71. A pragmatic approach to adding Schema to your website
72. An about page on an SEO based project
73. Good Habits for Student Developers – Documented
74. My First ever Screencast :-)
75. An image laden post I made about football memories
76. How to post to little logs from your terminal
77. I love Programming
78. A way I sped up my internet on the mac
79. Getting good team information
80. iPhone photos not freeing up space when deleted
81. Never assume your wage is safe
82. Webcam / Photo Booth Library fun!
83. Knowing if you have a gambling problem
84. Facebook killing my page rant
85. Deleting Attachments with rails_admin
86. Some iTerm tricks
87. Custom Routing of Github Emails
88. I wonder aloud what a Proc is
89. What a Developer can take away from SEO Now 2015
90. Adding Descriptions to Pages with Jekyll
91. My review of Scrutiny5
92. HTTP Status Codes for SEO
93. Getting HTTP Status Codes from the command line
94. Hiding the doc for fun and profit!
95. Upping the tracking speed on your mouse
96. Some of my favourite Mac Shortcuts
97. Mac Apps I use to stay productive
98. A stupid post on vasectomies
99. The quality of input and output
100. Mastering your Tools
101. My iPhone is pretty much my main content generating computer now
102. A short plee for questions for TheFootyTipster
103. I ponder out loud about the future of football betting
104. The difference between Render and Redirect in Rails
105. Tracking Ctrl+F clicks in Google Analytics
106. Checking for both versions of the GA tracking code in JavaScript
107. A quick experiment I did in highlighting words with JavaScript
108. Uploading files with Capybara for Rspec
109. Join the Anthony Nolan Register
110. The key codes for the command key on Mac keyboards
111. An interview with Ian on how he feels the football is going this year
112. Calling time on this project