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Dave_Child

Some days I wish FileZilla had some sort of tab grouping option - open multiple tabs, browse them all in sync, upload one file to all ... 12:55 AM May 23rd via web
lucy_ramos_ Are you #writing for your audience? Just found a really simple tool to see what reading level you're writing at. readability-score.com 6:12 AM May 7th via web Retweeted by Dave_Child
Very excited to see that Saturday was the first day that cheatography.com had more traffic than addedbytes.com :) 12:11 AM May 9th via web
I booted into my Windows partition (for homework), and it's been so long since I used it regularly that it still has IE7. Awesome. 12:01 AM Apr 30th via web
Finally got around to adding a half-decent projects showcase / listing page to Added Bytes: addedbytes.com/projects/ 12:35 AM Apr 27th via web
@edtherville Glad you like the site. The authors are all awesome :) 6:04 AM Apr 18th via web in reply to edtherville
LASTEXITshirts Fact for today: The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force. 2:51 AM Apr 18th via web Retweeted by Dave_Child and 9 others
The is awesome levels of geek: masswerk.at/googleBBS/ 12:48 PM Apr 17th via web
@shockeyk Thanks, glad you find it useful :) 12:10 AM Apr 17th via web in reply to shockeyk
@Dave_Ferguson Sounds good - let me know if you need anything from me! You can email me at dave at addedbytes dot com. 6:27 AM Mar 29th via web in reply to Dave_Ferguson
mathaversaries Rasmus Lerdorf, father of PHP, is 180 Mercury years old today! @rasmus #php bit.ly/H2TZdm 4:00 AM Mar 29th via Mathaversaries Retweeted by Dave_Child and 1 other
Interesting analogy for software development estimates: quora.com/Engineering-Ma… 12:15 AM Mar 23rd via web
Celebrate more! 1,000 days, 1,000,000 minutes, 50 Mars years ... Mathematical Anniversaries has had an update: mathaversaries.com 2:46 PM Mar 18th via web
@paulsilver @StevePurkiss We had the pleasure of meeting Steve in our offices a week or so ago :) 4:37 AM Mar 13th via web in reply to paulsilver
Are there any #Drupal gurus with a moment to help me with a comments/hooks question? I'm, so close ... and yet so far. drupal.stackexchange.com/q/25352/6002 4:02 AM Mar 13th via web
Liking @BonfireIM - nice group chat for Twitter. Reminds me of IRC. Not sure how they'll cope with inevitable spam though. 11:11 AM Mar 4th via web
Cheatography Browsing cheat sheets hasn't been quite right on Cheatography so far, so I've added new topic-based views! cheatography.com 1:40 AM Mar 3rd via web Retweeted by Dave_Child and 1 other
@coates @rasmus @shiflett I know, I know, but as the premise was a dig at PHP's US English syntax, I opted for some poetic license :) 9:31 AM Feb 28th via web in reply to coates
Cheatography I know a lot of people are going to love this - finally, a Vi cheat sheet! cheatography.com/ericg/cheat-sh… 11:55 PM Feb 24th via web Retweeted by Dave_Child and 1 other
@JasonD No problem - whenever you have time is great :) 11:58 AM Feb 23rd via web in reply to JasonD

Name Dave Child
Location Brighton, UK
Web http://www.addedb...
Bio Internet addict, developer, cyclist, squash player, astro-nerd, woodworker and OU physics/maths student. I run @AddedBytes, @Cheatography and @Mathaversaries.