Ever since becoming self employed I’ve been making a concerted effort to be as efficient as possible. Time is money, and when I’m not using my time for client work I’m not being paid. I’ve recently been looking at LESS, apart from saving time it’s very powerful and takes CSS development into the next century. [...]

That may be a bit of a dramatic title but for years our typed language has been Americanised due to the spell check defaulting to US English on every bit of software. I always do my best to set it as UK English, or failing that deal with the red lines under the words as [...]

So the fateful day came somewhat unexpectedly, October 5th 2011. Steve Jobs died of complications surrounding a rare form of pancreatic cancer. We’ve all seen the numerous news stories and public show of respect. I’ll use this opportunity to say rest in peace, and thanks Steve, you’ve made a big impact on my life 1. [...]

Google+ was applauded for its easy sharing settings, and facebook soon followed suit making it easy to decide who, or what, will see the content you post. It’s great, and I applaud it myself. What I’m now struggling with is how to classify the people I know. When placing people into ‘circles’ I find myself [...]

If you want to manipulate what is displayed on your Edit Posts (edit.php) page in your WordPress Admin area you need to have a look at manage_posts_columns and manage_posts_custom_column. `manage_posts_columns` allows you to remove or add to the columns displayed. For example to remove the Author column place the following into your `functions.php` file: $columns [...]

We’re having some work done at our house and yesterday the new drains were dug. See what’s wrong there? The drain pipe isn’t connected yet but when it is it will skew off diagonally into the drain. 3 builders were here and I said that the drain should be moved to directly underneath the drain [...]