Archive for June 2010
The Wolfman
The Wolfman is a remake of a classic horror movie. Re-imagining the story and bringing the special effects bang up to date.
On paper the cast sounds great. Anthony Hopkins rarely disappoints, Benicio Del Toro already looks wolf like, and Hugo Weaving is just plain awesome. However the decision to make Benicio the son of an Englishman, even one who has lived in America, is just strange. His accent never quite seems to go away and I ...
Facebook Hackathon 2010
Today I am at the London Facebook Hackathon 2010. A bunch of developers in London are going to build Open Graph apps, and then show them off to some Facebook Execs. The best will be presented to Mark Zuckerberg tomorrow.
Unfortunately I am between a rock and a hard place. I don't want to do a presentation (can't stand them) but I do want to win. Regardless I'm going to do my best and see what happens.
Below is a gallery of ...
WordPress Caching, part 3: Custom Caching Library
When building Elemental (WordPress Theme) I decided to develop my own, very simple, caching plugin to help speed up the theme.
There were a few reasons why I did it but the main ones were:
I was doing things with public apis that have an hourly request limit, so I had to build some sort of data cache. Whilst wp_super_cache and W3 Total Cache are well known there's no guarantee people will use it. I thought it would be interesting to learn how.How to Remove the Google Background Image
Today Google have changed their homepage to show off their new photographic wallpapers (copied from Bing).
Now I'm as much of a Google fan as most web designers are (ie I like them and use all their products) but I don't like these images.
Thankfully Google realised people might not want the backgrounds and included a (slightly complicated) way to remove the background image. Apparently the images are ...
What do you want me to write about?
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Part of improving my website involves me wanting to write about the sort of things you want to read about.
If you could take 1 minute to answer 1 quick question then that would really help me to work out what to write about next.
To give you some ideas I've written quite a few posts about WordPress recently, some of the most popular are below:
10 WordPress query_posts tips you probably don’t know Creating Your Own WordPress Permalink ...Inception – Awesome New Movie Trailer
Just seen the latest trailer for Christopher Nolans next film, Inception. It looks absolutely awesome. I've liked so many of his films, it's great to see his creativity continue.
The film seems to have influences from all over and still be something totally new. The things you can do with computers these days are amazing, it seems there's no limit to the imagination - and this film seems to do some crazy stuff without it looking cheesey or ridiculous. ...
CSS Only Button – Redux
The other day a post was published on Hongkiat showing how to make a button using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) only. However it was misleading, the CSS only button also used JavaScript, and an image or 2. It was actually a really simple button so I thought I would rebuild it myself and explain what I did and why.
Note that to get the full effect you need to use a webkit based browser, Chrome or Safari will do ...
Optimizing Binary Moon
Recently I have spent quite a bit of time noodling around with different settings and functionality on Binary Moon.
I have been altering elements positions on the page, adding and removing things, and changing how things work. All in an effort to improve the user experience and to, hopefully, increase the number of people who visit the site.
This isn't something I've ever done before. Previously I have always gone with my gut ...
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