Category Archives: technology

The Developer’s Linux Setup

Posted on April 10, 2011 by todd

A quick foreword, this is how I’ve got my relatively new Linux setup running so please, please leave comments to let me know what I’ve overlooked. As someone who flits between different computers it’s nice to have a common set … Continue reading →

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How to get Dropbox on Linux Working through a Proxy

Posted on April 9, 2011 by todd

I was recently a little stumped on getting Dropbox working on my Ubuntu 10.10 install (Maverick Meerkat) through our corporate proxy…. having got it working though I thought I’d share with you. In a terminal start Dropbox with the following … Continue reading →

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5 Tricks to Spice up your WordPress Blog

Posted on April 6, 2011 by todd

By adding a few lines of code or installing a plugin or two you can add some extra spice to your WordPress blog (or other WordPress powered site) and at the same time  bring a lot more value to your … Continue reading →

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Goals for 2011

Posted on January 1, 2011 by todd

Inspired by a few folk around the web I’ve decided to put together a post outlining some of the goals I have for 2011. My thinking was to list here some personal and non-personal goals I’d like to complete and … Continue reading →

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WordPress Ribbon Menu with CSS

Posted on December 20, 2010 by todd

For a recent project I was asked to replace a Flash site with a CSS/HTML version which was to match the existing look as closely as possible. This was essentially straight forward apart from the menu that was needed. The … Continue reading →

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Android – Getting apps to appear on the market

Posted on December 2, 2010 by todd

When I first started working on Asssist for Gingerbread Design we all knew that we wanted the app to be available across as many devices as possible. We wanted to cover devices with smaller screens and lower densities such as … Continue reading →

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Android emulator not installing apps – a solution

Posted on October 29, 2010 by todd

During my revisit to app building for the Android platform I started to notice that the emulator (when using Eclipse) was a bit hit and miss when it came to loading the freshly compiled applications onto it. After much surfing … Continue reading →

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How not to get our support

Posted on October 6, 2010 by todd

I just received an email from a lovely guy/gal complaining about how they wasted some time trying to get one of our plugins working. Sadly in this case we’re not going to even bother to help them sort out the … Continue reading →

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A Responsive Twenty Ten WordPress Theme

Posted on August 18, 2010 by todd

UPDATE: Although the following still exists and is available I have now released a WordPress plugin which gives the same output as the child theme but with the added benefit that it is hosted on the WordPress.org repository. The plugin … Continue reading →

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Advanced WordPress Page Layout Experiment

Posted on July 25, 2010 by todd

Styling WordPress page and post layouts can be daunting for the novice… especially if you don’t want to dirty your hands with PHP and the like. I wanted to experiment with what was possible to do using only the default … Continue reading →

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