James Dowell, Author at UVD

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I’ve always wanted to build stuff for people and currently enjoy creating products with great user experiences, have an interest in business and a passion for fitness: you can usually find me kickboxing at the local gym at least 3 times a week.

The pros and cons of using Perch CMS

Our latest project was a website for an architectural firm with lots of high resolution images. They had a requirement for a CMS, and after lots of research we decided to use Perch. Using examples, James analyses the pros and cons of using Perch CMS after using it for the first time.

Project Work

28th March, 2017

SVGs and SVG animation workshop

As part of our continued learning at UVD, we’ve been taking it in turns to provide workshops for one another. In this article, James reviews how his SVG animation workshop went down and covers how useful these workshops can be for the whole team.

15th March, 2017

How to create API service tests in Node using SuperTest

James explains what API service tests are and how you could implement your own NodeJS-based API service tests by providing some practical examples from our own internal project.

Tech

7th April, 2016

No excuses AngularJS unit testing with Sinon and $provide

James’ first ever UVD blog explores the use of the $provide Angular service, and the Sinon library within unit testing.

Tech

22nd May, 2015