Binary Moon

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• November 19, 2012

Jetpack: The Ultimate WordPress Plugin?

I've now got 2 themes on WordPress.com - Mimbo Pro and Opti - and as such I have spent quite a lot of time on the site. WordPress.com is powered by WordPress - but it also has a lot of custom plugins sitting on top of it making it a lot more flexible and useable for the average user. A lot of the functionality on there is not needed for the average user - but at the same time there's [...]

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• November 15, 2012

Caseable – Customizable iPad Cases and More…

I am so clumsy, and I am currently living in what can only be described as a building site. Last year my wife and I bought our first house and we have been renovating it ever since. Because of the renovations we currently have bare concrete floors on the ground floor. On it's own this isn't a big problem, at least it wasn't, until I dropped my iPhone 4 on it. The screen shattered. Luckily the phone continued to work, [...]

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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