Paul Conroy

Lazy loading of images means that images are not loaded by the browser until the moment they are needed.

Often when we implement a layout, we're working from a beautiful design, but one where the main (hero) image is typically in landscape format.

Multi-tenant applications are a great way of offering a customised experience for multiple users, from a single, shared codebase.

It's an increasingly-common experience for online publishers to discover that their content has been stolen wholesale, and posted on a different domain.

Google drive is a handy place to store videos.

Fonts are one of the largest resources on any page after images, and can have a big impact on CLS when they vary in size from the underlying system font.

In 1990, the Irish men's team qualified for the World Cup for the first time.

Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) is a measure of a page's "instability".

Google Analytics is a very powerful tool for understanding the source of web traffic.

The "two-click penalty" describes a change Google applies when their systems detect a high likelihood of a false click occurring on a display ad.

Core Web Vitals are a series of metrics which attempt to put an objective measure on web page performance.

Updated May 2023 to cover Google Analytics 4 With changes to privacy legislation, the use of 3rd party analytics tools like Google Analytics presents an issue for site owners.

With the release of Android Lollipop, the way that Chrome manages tabs was changed.

Eircom’s eFibre product is their fastest home broadband offering, promising speeds of up to 100mb.

At the Dublin leg of the 2014 Agile Tour, I recently gave a talk based on my experience leading a team’s agile transition from a classic waterfall approach.

One of the nice things about using git for version control is the amount of data it stores during development.

When doing any sort of non-trivial development, sooner or later you’ll likely end up having to send emails from your application.

Recently I ran in to a particularly odd database problem – a mysql table that both existed and didn’t at the same time.

Character encoding in PHP can be fun at the best of times.

Recently I needed to move a database I had running in RDS to a machine on a new digitalocean account.

On several recent projects I’ve been using VirtualBox and Vagrant to spin up new development machines.

Recently I was working on a new project on a virtual box set up through vagrant.

Recently we launched a Property Tax Calculator on Daft.

Last week we launched a Property Tax Calculator on Daft.ie.

Yesterday on Daft we launched a Property Tax Calculator.

Google recently published a list of 30 updates made to search over the tail end of 2011.

A slight change of pace from the usual tech-based posts around here, but it’s for a pretty worthy cause.

Daft.ie is Ireland’s most popular property rental portal.

I’ve been tinkering quite a bit lately with improving the twitter web interface with the use of bookmarklets.

If you’re just here to learn how to kill the Twitter Hovercards, then drag the Hovercard Removal bookmarklet to your browser’s bookmarks bar, go twitter.com, click it and you’re done!

Updated 27/10/2014 to handle new twitter layout.