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 »

Posted on 12th May 2007

Well, this is posted in ‘life’, but more as a test to populate the category list than anything else. I need a todo list of things that need sorting on this site. What better way to do it than in the site?
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Posted on 12th May 2007

The web is a mess. Since the beginnings of the explosion in use of the World Wide Web, browsers have been too forgiving on the validity of markup. This, combined with the open nature of the web, allowing anyone to publish anything, lead to the vast quantity of poorly written web pages making up the web today.
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Posted on 7th Mar 2007

I’ll do posts like this every week listing my favourite stories from the social news website digg.com, that’s D-I-G-G-DOT-COM.
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