Category Archives: Tools

Cloning with WP Twin

By John | Published July 31, 2011

At the “So, how did you do that?” session at the recent WordCampUK in Portsmouth, someone mentioned an interesting tool for cloning WordPress installs – WP Twin. I had a chance to test this out recently. I wanted to take a copy of a live WordPress install, so that I could test a new plugin. [...]

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VirtualBox on my MacBook Pro

By John | Published October 24, 2009

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 [...]

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A few of the tools I use

By John | Published October 18, 2009

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 [...]

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Enabling SOA with Yahoo Pipes

By John | Published February 16, 2007

We’ve been discussing recently how an SOA will help us to provide better and more flexible systems for our users. Particularly in an environment where major line-of-business applications (such as HR, EDRM, Finance) support the main business processes, and there aren’t many cross-silo processes. One area where SOA might help is in aggregating data from [...]

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FreeMind mind mapper

By John | Published February 10, 2007

I was looking for a free mind mapper the other day, and googled upon FreeMind. This Java-based program provides a graphical interface to create mind maps, along with a library of icons, and it is possible to save the map as PDF, which is good for sharing the maps with other people.

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