I often have a lot of things that occur to me while I’m coding, or browsing the web, or listening to music – just any time I’m using my computer really. And I think “yeah, I’ll remember that”. I very rarely remember that. A while ago I read on Brett Terpstra Logging with Day One [...]

Sometimes you don’t want a custom post type you’ve defined to be sorted by the publish date. soulsizzle.com has a great tutorial on making a post type sortable with an AJAX admin page. I wanted to to add this functionality to more than one post type I’d defined, but didn’t want to repeat the code. [...]

If you want to load some content on demand without a page refresh WordPress has you covered. AJAX is employed in the admin area and we can use those built in functions to achieve the same at the frontend. The following code is available on github:gist. Firstly we need to get the ajax functionality loaded [...]

I was prepared. I was confident. I wasn’t particularly nervous. I boarded that train and made way across London, the Teenage Cancer Trust offices where I donned my suit, to the location of the eyeforpharma Mobile Strategies 2011. The crowd was a fair size, maybe 150 people, and the seat were arranged around tables in [...]

After I went self employed one of my “to dos” was to become confident at public speaking. I’m happy to talk for a long time about things I know about, like bikes and the web, to friends but speaking in front of a crowd of people has always filled me with dread. As a practice [...]

I was sitting down to write a load of mixins for use with Less when I wondered if someone had already made some. Of course they have, this is the internet! lesselements.com has you covered. All the basics of CSS3 are there that should make your code far leaner.