What tools, software & applications do I use? v3.0

This post is intended as a couple of things. Firstly, it’s the 2nd rewrite of a post I wrote a while ago that covered the same thing as this one covers but from when I was running Windows. I’ve actually had a couple of people ask me what tools I use for various tasks so I’m going to compile a list of the various applications I use ‘every day’. That’s in quotes as obviously I...

WordPress ‘How-To’ Guide added to ‘Downloads’

Earlier this year I wrote an article about how to configure WordPress to what I consider to be best-practice standards. I’ve been asked a number of times if I have this information as a document that can be downloaded so I’ve made it available as a downloaded PDF. You’ll need Adobe Acrobat Reader to read it if your operating system doesn’t know how to open PDF documents natively. The guide...

WordPress ‘How To’ Guide

So, as I usually ask near the start of my posts, what’s this post about? I’ve setup a whole bunch of WordPress blogs in my time. Some have been for personal use, some for friends that need help getting started, some I’ve helped friends with and some have leaned more towards being commercial in nature. All of them, though, have followed a pretty similar process when it comes to the installation...

Pay it forward …

For a few years now I’ve been dabbling in a bit of 3D design here and there. Purely as a hobby though and I’d never even dream of calling myself any good at it. Anyway, I used to learn from a bunch of talented dudes over http://www.3dcaffeine.com, a site that unfortunately no longer exists (internal problems? I don’t know.) One of the members there was a Romanian guy by the name of Flavius, a...

Managing success and error results from jQuery with PHP

Part of the project I’m working on now uses jQuery AJAX methods to process certain requests. In particular, the first implementation of this was the simple submission of a form that saves some configuration options. These days who wants to see the ugly/old-style spinning loading icon when they click submit? I’d say that AJAX has more impact, seems more professional and is … well … cooler. ...