The Blog of Leonard Challis
One of the more unfortunate things I have to do is work with WampServer. Fair enough, the bulk is just standard Apache/MySQL/PHP configuration, but when it comes to support, available resources and just generally having to work in such a limited operating system, it can be a little depressing. Luckily not everything is impossible in [...]
Those who have seen my previous posts know I am a huge fan of Dropbox. If you’ve been living in a microwave for the last five years and aren’t lucky enough to be using, or low and behold, heard of it, yet, Dropbox is a backup [...]
As I’ve probably said before I’m not a fan of working on Windows, but sometimes the choice isn’t yours to be made. Couple this with the problems you have with SVN, where pieces of software like WordPress, which will often obliterate your metadata directories during updates, things can quickly turn sour. Recently I had to
Wow. What a crazy quarter of a year (double wow!) since my last blog post. I’m almost in the position to start posting more often again, so I thought I’d wet my whistle with a little update on what’s been happening the last few months.
I’ll start with a tl;dr version:
Got a new cat [...]
Recently I’ve been reading about and playing with Microdata. For those who’ve never heard of Microdata, you may have heard of microformats or RDFa. Still no? Let me explain.
Web sites are made up of lots of interesting information. [...]
According to Google, each protocol (here we’re talking about HTTP and HTTPS) should have it’s own robots.txt file. This makes sense, especially seeing as Google will see https://www.yoursite.com/ and http://www.yoursite.com/ as different web sites - which they’re probably not. Duplication is a bad thing.
I’ve recently noticed quite a [...]
I’ve recently been working on a gallery type web site for a local artist. It’s great when so much content is given to you at the start of a project, but sometimes it can be a real pain preparing all the images to put in your gallery. The problem I was having with these particular [...]
I was recently asked to come up with a script to grab a store’s Google Seller Rating to display it as part of the web site. It’s really quite simple…
I presume CMI stands for checkout merchant ID or something similar. Just browse to your Seller reviews page and grab it from the query string. [...]
Lots of organisations take orders over the phone as well as through their web site, and lots of those use the SagePay Virtual Terminal.
This is a really handy service, but it’s not very integrated. Although there are generally more elegant solutions available to companies who wish to spend more and put more development time [...]
What others have been saying
What I've been tweeting
- @omid9 but that'd mean another team lost a place who expected one wouldn't it.Imagine if spurs lost a spot because Barca placed low but won! 8 hours ago
- RT @sunny_hundal: Twitter, I'm really disappointed this Cameron pic hasn't been turned into meme yet. Here's the transparent gif http:// ... 8 hours ago
- @omid9 why is it a disgrace? I'd prefer Spurs to be in the champs league, but you, I and all teams knew the rules before a ball was kicked. 8 hours ago
- @SteJay what a lovely place to live, eh? When it snows it's wonderful :) on Halyard Croft myself. 8 hours ago
- @thisgirlrox city will probably buy him just to take the piss 8 hours ago
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