After my last post, in which I briefly sang the praises of Wordpress, I became increasingly troubled by the horribly slow page load times of this blog, so I spent an hour or two last night trying to speed things up. It’s a while since I installed WP Super Cache, and all this time I’ve [...]
My third MODx site is about to launch. It’s relatively simple (no forms!) so I had the chance to really concentrate on refining my architecture, and the work I’ve done will stand me in good stead for a while (unless I give in to the enticements of SilverStripe or ExpressionEngine, or just ditch the PHP [...]
My first MODx-powered website went live today (Pinnacle Telecom Group plc), and my intention now is to share some of my experiences. From a development point of view MODx is so flexible that there are several ways of doing most things, so if like me you constantly fret about your architecture and constantly refactor your [...]
function add_pre_process() {
//Find the id of the existing registration in the cart, if it does exist
$.each(fc_json.products, function(key, product) {
if(product.name=="Registration") {
// Do the remove request, with parameter quantity=0
$.ajax({
async: [...]
I’ve been hunting for a web development framework for a few months. Back in the summer I was immersed in CSS and javascript, just sticking with my tried and tested server-side techniques. Using the TinyButStrong (TBS) template class I could put together a highly organized dynamic website pretty quickly. In retrospect it seems that I’d [...]
For this post it was a toss-up between:
1. My observations on Freud’s Psychopathology of Everyday Life (boiling down to my realization that I’m a tangle of complexes, but also that I’m actually doing alright and won’t be running to an analyst any time soon)
2. A vague and geeky ramble over the broken, scarred and unstable [...]
This is a taster of what’s to come in a few weeks. I’m building this website, for the Scottish Golf Heritage Festival, with an array of incredibly useful components and features: I’m using the MODx content management system, FoxyCart for an integrated shop and registration process, and a wealth of snazzy (I’m certain I can [...]
I am the black sheep of my flock,
I stand alone at field’s edge.
Out here my waking hours I spend,
Chewing a hole in the hedge.
I am the outcast of this flock.
When you are gathered together,
I spend my days tied up by a rope,
Seeking an end to my tether.
Black sheep, baa baa baa
etc.
I’m reminded of these lines, [...]
Don’t re-invent the wheel. That’s a motto that every good programmer and web developer lives by. If we’re being creative or original it’s usually in knowing which components and scripts to combine, amongst all those that have been created by other people; and in knowing how each of those components can be tweaked and configured [...]
UPDATE (March 2009): I’ve since been told by my girlfriend that this is the most boring blog post she has ever read. Something of an achievement.
Well my website’s been technically live for a while, but it wasn’t quite ready. There were a few usability problems that resulted from the combination of having lots of thumbnails [...]
