Posted on 14th Jan 2008

If all goes well, this post should appear on my blog just like any other. “What’s so great about that?” I hear you cry. Well, this is posted from the new native S60 application Wavelog, made for posting to presumably any blog supporting the Wordpress API. Anyone who knows me will know how cool an idea this is to me..
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Posted on 30th Dec 2007

So, I took the plunge and upgraded to Leopard while I had time to occupy over Christmas. Probably could’ve found something higher on my todo list really, but an impulse grabbed me when I was in the Apple store, and that was that.

So, opinions. A mixed blessing really. User interface elements are a lot nicer, particularly the new reflective dock (which seems to be a bit controversial round the web). There’s also a neat little hidden trick for putting spacers in the dock, a problem I had to hack around in Tiger by placing “fake” apps in the dock which threw up errors on accidental clicks.

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Posted on 18th Aug 2007

The new version of the Schmap Manchester Travel Guide is out and guess what? A couple of my photos are included in it!

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Posted on 4th Jul 2007

One of the problems I’ve found with WordPress (especially when creating a simplified setup for less techy people) is that there’s no separation between internal and external site links. Sure, you can make a link relative to the site root with a leading slash, but what happens when you change the structure of the site or move a page? Suddenly, all your links are dead. Surely a content management system should handle things like this?

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Posted on 19th Jun 2007

Being exasperated by the available offerings for photo gallery management within WordPress, I decided to do what every self respecting geek should do, and write my own from scratch. This way I can incorporate all the features I want, but at the same time keep it easy to use so it can be used by anyone.

I’ve spent far too long on this so far, but it’s been a learning experience, being my first delve into WordPress plugin development. Read more »