David Padbury

Yesterday me and my good friend Jamie won the last.fm Hack Day with our application – StaffWars.fm. We coded the entire application from scratch in just 7 hours while enjoying a free bar. Given that we were possibly drinking heavily the application is a little rough around the edges but we’ll hopefully get something out [...]

I often find myself wanting to pluralize text in my applications such as displaying either ‘1 Message’ or ‘2 Messages’. Anyone who has played with Rails will have likely came across the Infector which, among other things, is capable of taking a singular word and returning its plural – message => messages and mouse => [...]