I’m not sure why I ever run an `apt-get upgrade` on Debian as I usually spend the next week fixing
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I’m an Engineer, working for Vonage (an Ericsson company). I write about stuff that interests me - primarily Networks, Software Engineering, VoIP and Electronics. It exists in the hope that someone may learn from my thoughts and ramblings. I'm on GitHub! I'm also currently fairly active on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Reading a signed 64 bit integer from a file with PHP
This may be a ridiculous way to do this but I couldn’t think of anything better at the time of
Continue readingParsing a darkstat database with PHP
This is something I wrote for the sake of interest more than necessity but I have found it quite useful
Continue readingRandomising the order of posts in WordPress
Just before ‘the loop‘ of a WordPress site, you would normally use query_posts(). Not only does this set a global
Continue readingSimple fix for low pressure or no water in electric showers – change the solenoid coil
Firstly… don’t mistaken me for a shower expert, I’m really not – I just have a pretty crappy shower which
Continue readingWordPress plugin: Wikipedia extract tooltip v1.1
I have recently attended the Firefox school of code versioning and have learned that it’s cool to release code with
Continue readingWordPress plugin: Wikipedia extract tooltip
I’ve never written a WordPress plugin before and was surprised how simple it was. I have knocked up a plugin
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