HOW TO: The simplest way to show your tweets & RTs on any web page...
Showing your latest tweets (& retweets) within your blog or site can be an intuitive way of getting people to follow you. The easiest way to do this is by retrieving your Twitter feed (in JSON...
View ArticleFIX: Retweets not appearing in your Twitter feed when using Javascript...
Many templates and plugins use an older method of importing tweets, unfortunately it doesn't support RTs, here is a simple fix.
View ArticleJavaScript Toggle Button using jQuery
Not that there aren’t enough examples & implementations of javascript toggle buttons on Google, here’s another to add to the collection. This plugins main features / capabilities are: Cross browser...
View ArticleMy big fat ambitious ‘bucket list’
“Anyone motivated to be successful—to really make an impact with your life—has a list of things they want to do.” - thrillingheroics.com My constantly changing list of goals to accomplish before I kick...
View ArticleThe quickest way to add a custom folder icon in C# .NET
There are lots of long-winded methods out there that show you how to add / change a folders icon, below is a short C# class method that just gets the job done. To change a folder icon we need to...
View ArticleC# Animated Tray Icon
Overview Animated tray icons are a useful way of alerting users of changes to your applications state. Unfortunately the .NET frameworks tray icon offering doesn’t support animation so I decided to...
View ArticleJazzing up Javascript confirmation boxes with Orman Clarks popup window...
Making user prompts look much more appetizing doesn’t have to be that much of a chore, especially when great UI designers are giving you their Photoshop templates for free! Orman Clark over at...
View ArticleUsing a custom CSS stylsheet in a WordPress widget
This serves as nothing more than a note to self & anyone else that has ever told me that it’s not possible to include a CSS stylesheet from within a WordPress sidebar / footer widget: Within your...
View ArticleCountDown Gadget (Version 2)
A brand new version of my simple count down timer. Changeable skins, font styles, sizes, colours, time display formats & more. Features: A new more up-to-date look and feel Counts up as well as...
View ArticleBracketLESS
A LESS compiler extension for Adobe Brackets In recent months the open source code editor Brackets (written on Chromium with HTML5, JS & LESS) has become my favorite editor for all web orientated...
View ArticleUsing PHP to Encrypt, Decrypt, Sign & Verify Data with a .NET generated XML...
I’ve spent a fair amount of time researching how to sign data in PHP with a .NET generated RSA Private key that has been exported in XML format. There are many ‘half baked’ solutions out there that can...
View ArticleQuick fix for the ‘Deprecated: Function eregi() is deprecated ‘ issue / error...
I recently upgraded a production server to PHP 5.3.6 from a much earlier 5.2.x build and noticed that the process had killed all instances of phpThumb on the server due to the deprecation of the...
View ArticleThe EU Cookie Law: Problematic to say the least
Today I was posed the question, by a prospective new client, of whether their new web site would breach the May 2011 UK cookie law. Although aware of the new law, I will admit I had not yet looked at...
View ArticleEU Cookie Law: UK Government ‘break’ the law they imposed
Following on from my last article on The EU Cookie Law, I decided to check and see whether the government had updated its sites to adhere to the new law it imposed in May 2011. Number 10 Downing Street...
View ArticleTheme Development in Concrete 5.7 – HTML5 Starter Theme
I’ve used concrete5 for the last few years when developing anything from small ten page websites to complex 500+ page sites with workflows and advanced permission sets. It’s an amazing CMS but one...
View ArticleSheet Faker: Dummy / test CSV & XLSX (Excel) file generation
Recently I’ve had the need to generate extremely large CSV, ODS & XLSX files for testing. I’ve ended up creating a CSV dummy data generation tool in PHP which is capable of generating large...
View ArticleLaravel: Get the right totals using aggregate queries such as count(), avg(),...
Laravels fluent query markup makes life real easy, too easy sometimes. Getting $query->groupBy(‘column’)->count() to spit out the correct count for the recordset instead of the total before the...
View ArticleHow I saved £281+ per year subscribing to Amazon Prime
‘Wait, what? £79 for a year?’ my mother exclaimed as I explained why I would order her the latest book and get it delivered free. Here was another person I was going to have to explain why I thought...
View ArticleHTML: 15 of the most asked questions
HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) is the cornerstone of the modern internet. Below you can find the questions people ask most about the language, its elements and tags. HTML was originally released in...
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