Well, I dont know, I was just repeating the advice in the article.
I picked up my scope today (which I had lent to my Dad), tomorrow the NE555 (which I stupidly forgot in my thursday order) and driver chips will be delivered, I cant wait to start assembly :-D
EDIT: Now this is cool... just found an optocoupler with MOSFET driver output :-)
http://docs-europe.electrocomponents...6b807796fc.pdf