Archive for April 2010
How to Build the Perfect WordPress Sitemap
I was recently asked how I built the sitemap on Binary Moon so I thought I would share the code. The sitemap layout is actually one of the many custom page templates available in my WordPress theme, Elemental - however the code is very loosly based upon that in the original SRG Clean Archives plugin (before it was taken over by Geek With a Laptop).
Sitemaps are a single ...
Creating Words of Wisdom
I've never been interested in business. I've been interested in creating things
Paraphrased from Richard Bransons book "Business Stripped Bare".
The act of creating something, whether it's a website, a video game, or a lego model, is one of the most satisfying things I can do. Over the years I have built up quite a collection of projects. I always have to be doing something. About 10 years ago I realised I might be able to make some money at it, ...
Using cURL to Read the Contents of a Web Page
Recently I wrote about how to use the Yahoo! weather api with WordPress and in the comments I was asked how to use it without relying on WordPress. The answer - is cURL.
According to Wikipedia the name cURL comes from "Client for URLs" and it is essentially a command line interface for a web client. This means that you can access web content through a script on your site. This is most often used by websites when they access ...
9
As post apocalyptic movies go, things don't get much more apocalyptic than they do in the movie 9. In a post war time, when the only things left are some golems made by an old man, and a bunch of distinctly WWII influenced robots things can't get much more bleak.
Despite this 9 has a sense of heart and a distinctly more grown up story than your average animated adventure. Likewise some of the 'enemy' machines are genuinely scary with ...
WordPress Caching, Part 1: The Basics
Caching (on the internet) is the act of storing computationally expensive calculations in a way that can be recovered very quickly with the smallest possible impact on the server.
Or, in short, 'speeding stuff up'.
In this series of posts I will be showing you how you can speed up your WordPress blog. I'll start with the basics and then move on to how I cache external data in my WordPress theme - Elemental.
March Movie Madness
I watched loads of films last month. Most aren't worth mentioning - but below are some short reviews of the ones I enjoyed the most.
Hellboy 2Call me weird but the original Hellboy is one of my favorite films. It's up there with Blade 2 as a really enjoyable popcorn action flick. I love the cartoony over the topness. The colourful characters - and slightly crazy special effects - they all add up to make a ...
No More April Fools
In my younger days (yes, I'm sounding old), April 1st was a day to look forward to. A time of joy and innocent jokes.
Well no more. Over the last 3 or 4 years April Fools day has slowly become one of my least favorite days online. It's a day when everyone with a blog or website suddenly decides they have a sense of humour and it's time to share it with everyone else.
All of the jokes have gone from ...
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