So phase one of the new theme is done. You’re currently looking at a totally bare-bones theme (unless you’re looking back at this post in the future) which I’ll be building from in the coming weeks. To get this far most of the work has been in the project setup which you can find on [...]
Continue readingWell the festive season is over and after a much needed break I’m winding up ready to get back to work and tackle 2012. This is my attempt to reflect and summarise 2011 and some thoughts on looking towards 2012 and what it may entail. 2011 New company website At the beginning of 2011 we [...]
Continue readingI’ve heard of Windows Live Writer before but never really gave it a second thought. I just discovered it’s pre-installed on Windows 7 so thought I’d give it a try. First impressions are that it’s interesting how it detects site styles and applies them to the editor (a desktop application). As I’m about to go [...]
Continue readingDidn’t really like the old theme, I felt it was a bit busy, the font was hard to read and it had gotten a little too common as freebie WordPress themes tend to do so when slackers like yours truly get their dirty mitts on them. This theme is called RS17 from Theme Lab based [...]
Continue readingJeez, that’s been a heck of a long time since I last posted… or that my site has even been visible! Back around mid 2008 some scrawny, b*&$$d, a$$*&, s*($&£, c&(£& git hacked my wordpress site. At first I didn’t notice because all they’d done was inserted some inline css to style a few select [...]
Continue readingSeems something went wrong with the blog some time over the weekend. All my tutorials went walkabout. Fortunately I managed to restore them from backup but there still seems to be a few gremlins. If you notice anything not quite right drop me a comment and I’ll get it sorted. Also if you know of [...]
Continue readingOkay, so yesterday my comment spam went absolutely mental. Literally one every couple of minutes for half a day. Total pain in the ass, so I’ve had to implement a captcha, unfortunately a necessary evil. I also chose to implement a slightly different to normal captca in the name of reCAPTCHA. Basically it gives you [...]
Continue readingOkay I’m well behind on posts at the moment. I have some posts on the remainder of the Expression Course almost ready, I’m hoping to write some stuff on the CS3 launch and also comments on the events at Mix07. Unfortunately I’m hella busy right now so falling mad behind. Anyway, excuses aside I thought [...]
Continue readingI’ve just been informed my site is now being aggregated by MXNA so thought I’d take a minute to welcome any new readers (or rather just wanted to see my name in lights and had nothing in particular to post at short notice). My latest ramblings are on Apollo which I intend to keep up [...]
Continue readingI finally decided to get a new look to the blog, I’ve chosen Vistered Little by Nik Iliadis check out his site The Scary Little Monkey for some of the best looking works I’ve seen for any blog. I’m hoping to create and add some custom Flash widgets in the future, but seeing as it’s [...]
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