Testing wordpress upgrade
An oldie but still a good watch, I imagine I was a little like that when I got my NES to be fair
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YouTube Direkt
3rd March 2009
9th July 2008
Challenge number 2 100 Push ups!
After recently passing my Zend Certification Exam I felt that it was time to set myself another challenge. This one is sure to hurt me a lot more but I know it’s definitely achievable with a little hard work in the evenings! So after seeing the hundred push ups website it’s time to jump on the bandwagon of people attempting the same challenge.
9th July 2008
Zend Certification Exam experience
Happy days, last month I passed my Zend Certification exam on the first attempt, Carlton Dickson is finally in the Zend Yellow Pages for ZCEs.
The things that I would recommend looking at if you’re planning to take the exam are…
8th July 2008
Google App Engine
After discovering a few Google I/O conference presentations on Youtube something that grabbed my attention were the Google App Engine presentations. The Google App Engine allows developers to run their apps on Google’s infrastructure and not have to worry about server-related issues such as maintaining fast response times, reliability and scaling should your site suddenly receive a shed load of traffic. This is surely great news for startups who believe they will be big sometime in the future but aren’t willing to pay a silly amount of dough for the architecture to support their idea up-front, kinda like pay as you go…did I say the first 5 million page views and 500MB storage were free??
7th July 2008
Every man needs a…shed
So I decided it was time for me to get my own shed, not the wooden sort used to get away from a nagging other half or fix the mower, but instead test out things that may come in useful in future projects or that look interesting. At the moment this only consist of an example of the Youtube chromeless player I threw together, press the play icon for some soulful grooves.
11th May 2008
Your search for a lightbox is over
Just started a project for a friend of mine showcasing their design work and one piece of functionality that I’ll need is a JS based lightbox in order to display the work in a nice way.
My requirements for the lightbox were…
- Small file size for all included files
- As few HTTP requests as possible, i.e. for images, CSS, JS libraries
- Support for image sets
- Preferably uses a JS library I have used before (YUI, scriptaculous, mootools)
- Degrades gracefully if the user doesn’t have JS
I have found a cheeky little comparison matrix of lightbox alternatives, meaning I can stop running around the net using the various names that people have given their spinoffs of the first lightbox, check it out, it will definitely save you a lot of time!
2nd March 2008
Displaying source code in Wordpress post
After spending 5 mins setting up my Wordpress installation and then half the evening figuring out how to get syntax highlighting working (duh), I thought this post might come in handy for other newcomers to Wordpress.