Binary Moon

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• November 11, 2012

Clearing CSS Floats Without Markup

This has done the rounds loads of times before - but clearing css floats is something I need to do all the time, and since I have to look up the code on every project I thought I would add it here so that I have a reminder. This method uses css pseudo elements to do the clearing without adding random elements that contain 'clear:both;' which in turn means that the html is kept nice and clean and the css [...]

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• November 6, 2012

Aggregator Theme in the Wild

As I mentioned recently - I have been looking at a new social aggregation theme - and it's now live on bengillbanks.co.uk. In the best spirit of iterative development, it's not yet finished. Currently it uses my content aggregation plugin to pull in the feeds from 3 of my websites. In the future I will work out how to add Twitter and Facebook and other social networks. Because of what I'm using it for I have called the theme Aggregator. [...]

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• October 31, 2012

Grovember – Raising Awareness of Bowel Cancer

I have a beard. A few months after I met Jo, who is now my wife, she said that she thought I looked good with a beard. Since this meant I didn't have to shave, and since it got the thumbs up from my new girlfriend, I decided to start growing it. So I now have a beard. Every year, Miniclip, the company I work for join in with Movember. This is a charity event where men around the world [...]

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• October 27, 2012

Browser Shots WordPress Plugin

I didn't realise it had been so long but in February 2010 I wrote a little blog post about creating screenshots of websites automatically. I wrote this after finding that the team at WordPress had created their own system for doing this - and so I created a super simple plugin that let's you use this functionality in your blog. I'm not sure why but I never added the plugin to the WordPress plugin repository. Last week Kevin Leary decided [...]

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• October 24, 2012
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Good Adverts – Havana Man and the Smallest Mojito in the World

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• October 23, 2012

WordPress Pagination with Custom WordPress Queries

I don't remember the last time I made a WordPress theme that didn't do all sorts of unique stuff. I've never been interested in making standard blog designs and always want to create something a bit different. This throws up some issues then - most often with pagination - and it's only recently that I found a solution. x_posts_link I had always assumed that the next_posts_link and previous_posts_link functions were for use in combination with 'the loop', but it seems [...]

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• October 17, 2012

WordPress Social Network Aggregation

I really like the idea of a Tumblog - and even have one on Tumblr.com - but I don't promote it anywhere. Conceptually it's great - but I don't like not having control over my content. What I would really like is to have a site that I can design and control entirely... I also want to be able to automate everything. Automation is brilliant - I use it wherever possible. My goal is to pull the content in from [...]

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• October 5, 2012

Virgin TV Anywhere – the future of Television?

The way we watch television is changing. There's a lot of talk about the multi screen experience - watching tv from your sofa while surfing the Internet on your iPad/ laptop. And television broadcasting companies are noticing. They're also noticing that our viewing habits are changing. With devices like laptops, tablets, and smartphones more people are consuming media in more places. This is where Virgin TV Anywhere comes in. Virgin recently invited me to their office to check out what [...]

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• September 24, 2012

iPhone 5 and the Golden Age of Computing

I found the reactions after the iPhone 5 announcement last week really interesting. Everyone knew the iPhone 5 was coming, and all the rumour blogs had announced almost everything presented. Before it started we knew many of the announcements. So why was the outcome so negative? The iPhone 5 pre-orders sold out within some sort of crazy record (24 hours or something), yet there was a lot of negativity. People had set their expectations too high (despite the fact we [...]

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• September 20, 2012
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

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• September 8, 2012

Quick Tips: Taking Screenshots on a Mac

I take a lot of screenshots on my Mac - for all sorts of reasons. Often it's screenshots of web pages that I am going to draw over or modify for mockups. Sometimes it's screen shots of bugs that need fixing so I can send off bug reports, and occasionally it's screenshots for tutorials/ blog posts. I used to use a stand alone application for taking screenshots but now I do everything using OSX built in functionality. Below are a [...]

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• September 4, 2012

7 Uknown Mac Apps You Might Find Helpful

I converted to Mac a couple of years ago - and am now a bit of a fanboy. Over the last couple of years I've been scouring the interwebs looking for the best apps to make my Mac usage even more useful and fun. Below is a list of some of the Mac Apps that I am using now that are not so well known - but incredibly helpful. Tomahawk Tomahawk is a clever Mac App that let's you listen [...]