Posted in Articles, Featured on September 28, 2014
For as long as I’ve been paying the rent by selling my skills in the web industry I’ve thought that I had a product in me. Back in the late 90’s I was a wannabe .com ‘founder’ working on terrible
Posted in Development on September 25, 2014
There's a bash exploit doing the rounds that is drop-everything serious. The short version is that it is: related to how environment variables are processed: trailing code in function definitions was
Posted in OneNote on August 25, 2014
Recently I moved to Apple's OSX as my primary operating system. It has gone very smoothly with me taking a Macbook Air on holiday (with no work or email loaded onto it!) so I could get used to it and
Posted in Development on July 14, 2014
One evening in 2007 I got frustrated by once again having to strip out all of the styling from one of the then default Wordpress themes (remember Kubrick?) prior to building a client's site, so I
Posted in Development on July 12, 2014
Are you about to get a freelancer to work on your existing Wordpress site for you or one of your clients? Here's a simple SQL script you can run against your dev database to randomise all the user
Posted in Development on July 10, 2014
I found a handy plugin this weekend for keeping my PHP development Vagrant VM VirtualBox guest additions in sync: vagrant-vbguest vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest Every time you do a vagrant up
Posted in dev-sys on July 7, 2014
If you're using Vagrant to control your dev VMs on a headless server it's easy to lose track of the number of running machines. Here's a one-liner to gracefully shut-down all of them to free up some
Posted in dev-sys on June 19, 2014
Assuming you want to develop HTML5 apps to run on mobile devices using Phonegap/Cordova then the easiest place to start is Android if you're a Windows user as you don't need a separate Mac, you don't
Posted in Articles on May 17, 2014
Right now I reckon in some way you're failing at something. I know I am, but I'm Ok with it. Seriously. To succeed you need to have criteria to define the success by. I'm a bit uneasy with the term
Posted in Articles on May 8, 2014
This article was originally posted on The Pastry Box in May 2014. Do you have an itch that you keep meaning to scratch? An idea that just won’t go away but life keeps getting in the way? As hard as