I’ve always got quite a lot of comment spam on the blog, and this is mostly for older posts that I assume are already dead and wouldn’t be commented on. If you go back far enough, you find all sorts …
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How to get a Twitter feed into your WordPress theme
WordPress comes with a version of Magpie RSS as part of its base installation. This means you can easily retrieve outside sources (eg: twitter, flickr, last.fm and many others) on your blog via a syndication system, such as rss or …
WordPress
I’ve been working with WordPress to create templates at work for quite a while using the Thesis template/framework. Recently I’ve been working with WordPress 3 and have been putting my own template/framework together, which I’ll hopefully post it up here …
Chrome browser address issue
Anyone else have any problems with Chrome resolving addresses that you might have set up in your “hosts” file? I often use a naming convention when developing locally, for example “dev.douglasradburn”. If I stick that into Chrome, I get a …
Safari 5 “reader” mode
Interesting article over at theregister about Safari 5′s new “reader” function. And the page is also a living example of a page compatible with it too. Apparently, if Safari 5 recognises that the page you’re visiting contains an “article”, it …
FOWD – A first timer….
So, this past couple of days (or weeks ago – depending on when I get aroundf to writing this), I’ve been at the Future of Web Design (FOWD) 2010 conference in London. It was my first time going to FOWD, …
Console access
I use Firebug to debug webpages. I’m sure a lot of people do. I also, find myself using “alert(variable)” quite often when debugging some JS that is infurating me at the time. If you combine JS and Firebug, you can …
douglasradburn.co.uk – a redesign
It seems from time to time, I like to refresh the design of this blog and try to re-enter the “blogsphere”. Really, I should just name my blog something obvious, like Graeme, but I don’t suffer from a lack of …
BBFC lose game rating classification
Interesting article over at El Reg regarding Elspa taking over gaming classification from BBFC. Elspa’s PEGI system has been in place for a while, with recent updates to the rating system and colouring introduced to the range of ratings. One …
Xbox 360 update
What’s more, any old USB stick will do. Though Microsoft will be selling their own branded eight and 16GB USB sticks for around £25 to £45. This is the biggest single USB device that the Xbox will take, but because …
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