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WordCamp UK – Great Stuff + a Little Controversy

Jul 19, ’10 12:38 PM
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I went to WordCamp UK 2010 in Manchester… this is my write-up of the event, and its controversies along with my presentations…
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Live Threaded Commenting on WP

Jul 12, ’10 12:09 PM

At Interconnect IT / Spectacu.la my colleague James has developed a new version of the popular Spectacu.la Threaded Comments plugin.  It’s not yet in release form, but you can grab it from the WordPress.org repository via svn if you know how at http://svn.wp-plugins.org/spectacula-threaded-comments/trunk/ I’m bringing it up here because I’ve decided to trial the plugin…
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WordPress Performance, Make it 3x Quicker!

May 19, ’10 4:53 PM
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I’d started to notice that my site could often be slow to load – other sites on the same server weren’t suffering the same way, so I wanted to document a simple way in which one can identify performance issues on the site. This is one of them.
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Is WordPress Slowing My Site Down?

Jan 18, ’10 11:48 PM
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I noticed on my pingdom stats recently that this site has been slowing down recently. But why? Is it WordPress? Some plugins? Time for research!
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What it’s Like to Present and Attend at WordCamp UK

Jul 20, ’09 1:27 PM
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Over the weekend just gone I made two planned presentations at WordCamp UK 2009 down in Cardiff. I also threw in a quick 45 minutes of show and tell on the Caribou Theme that runs this site and is available for download from Spectacula.
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Handy Tip for CSS Reloading

May 5, ’09 9:50 AM
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CSS not refreshing in the browser can be a pain – Mark Jaquith has come up with an elegant solution to this for WordPress coders.
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PHP Serialization Fix for WordPress Migrations (& other applications like Expression Engine)

Mar 2, ’09 6:49 PM
A different kind of migration - public domain from Wikipedia Commons

Serialization of data loaded into an SQL table is a dreadful thing and makes WordPress migrations harder than they should be, but it happens and so we must deal with it. I’ve knocked up a rough and ready bit of code which does its best to resolve the problem.
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Wordcamp UK 2009 to be in Cardiff

Mar 2, ’09 6:07 PM
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If you’re following the various WordCamp lists, you’ll already know about this event.  But many won’t. If you use WordPress professionally, or with a great deal of enthusiasm, WordCamps are a great way to meet with other users, developers and designers who really understand the system.  There are useful presentations, social events and activities based…
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Barcamp Liverpool 2008

Dec 7, ’08 3:51 PM
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I attended Barcamp Liverpool 2008 to join fellow geeks in a spot of technology appreciation at this ‘unconference’ at the CUC. Great venue, and great to be able to give an ad-hoc presentation on WordPress for News Sites in the Café
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So now I’m on Facebook I Want a Blog Connection…

Nov 18, ’07 10:58 PM

It makes sense, if you think about it – why duplicate data in two places? So in went the Wordbook plugin for WordPress, and then the Facebook application onto my profile. This post, really, is to see if it’s a success – does my blog here appear in my profile? And so it does! Woo!…
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