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Author Archives: John
Adelaides redesign
I’ve just updated the theme for Adelaides to give it a more contemporary feel and use WP3.0 features.
OpenAid WordHack
A WordHack to create a WordPress site importing UK Aid data
Posted in Community Activism, International Development, Portfolio, WordPress
Tagged aid transparency, DFID, openaid, transparency, UKaid, wordcampuk
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WordCamp UK 2010
I attended my second WordCamp UK at the weekend, held this year in Manchester. The (un)conference was attended by around 200 people, and was held in the Manchester Metropolitan University Business School. Like last year, the main benefit to me was to meet the key people in the UK’s WordPress community (in the flesh rather [...]
Posted in International Development, WordPress
Tagged manchester, openaid, wordcamp, wordcampuk, wordhack
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Christian Engineers in Development
CED are a small UK charity that supports communities in the developing world with technical expertise.
Posted in charity, Portfolio, WordPress
Tagged Bluehost, CED, charity, Christian, international development, WordPress, WordPress 3.0
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An alternative bit.ly redirector
For some reason I was in the house by myself one late winter evening when this request from Owen popped into my Twitter feed. The context is that there are a number of countries and organisations that for some reason block redirectors such as bit.ly. Ethiopia, where Owen lives, was one until very recently [until [...]
Glasgow Spirituality Survey
Supporting a community survey on work and spirituality in Glasgow City Centre.
Posted in charity, Community Activism, Portfolio, Social networks
Tagged BiG, Glasgow, survey, Survey Monkey
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Kicked off at Busby
A short but fun project to set up a community activist site to help improve the train service on the East Kilbride line.
Posted in Community Activism, Portfolio
Tagged East Kilbride, Network Rail, Scotrail, trains
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VirtualBox on my MacBook Pro
I installed Sun’s VirtualBox on my MacBook Pro (Snow Leopard) this week, then created a new virtual machine with WIndows 7 Ultimate – 32 bit (thanks to my MSDN licence). That means I can test how my WordPress themes look on IE8 running on Windows 7. I can also run Windows only applications and share [...]
Posted in Tools, Virtualization
Tagged Dell AIO 922, MacBook, USB, VirtualBox, Windows 7
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A few of the tools I use
I have had a MacBook Pro for a few months now, and I’ve found a few favourite tools for WordPress development. I’m open to other recommendations, if there’s anything you’ve found particularly useful. Development Environment XAMPP provides me with the right Apache and MySQL environment for my test sites. It makes it easy to use [...]