Bing Maps for WordPress Plugin Test
July 25th, 2010This is Niagara Falls
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England Stats-a-go-go
June 29th, 2010
England are out of the World Cup – and too right, because they were rubbish.
Everyone thought they could win it too – bookies made them 3rd favourites, we had better players than everyone else according to the 2 Alan’s on MOTD. And this was the golden generation – how could they NOT win the cup??
So I thought I’d take a look at whether or not we’re actually likely to win based on past World Cup & European Championship performances.
I’d like to work out whether we’re likely to win a major championship in my lifetime and how long I have to wait until we play well (and win) in a meaningful match against good opposition. I’ll go back as far as the 1970 World Cup, because I was born in 1976, and we didn’t quality for 1974 or 1978.
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Tags: 2 alans, 2018 world cup, england, england are rubbish, european championships, golden generation, world cup
Posted in Football, Sport | 7 Comments »
Mobile CakePHP Apps
September 22nd, 2009
It feels like an age ago that I wrote a component and helper for CakePHP that could mobilize an app. Since then, things in the WAPL and Wapple world have moved on at a rate of knots and it’s time to re-write, re-factor and re-engineer the mobile cake code to keep it up to date.
Tags: CakePHP, component, helper, refactor, REST, SOAP, vendor
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WordPress on Load Balanced Servers
September 3rd, 2009
Picture the scene, you’ve had a great idea for a blog and have decided to use WordPress as your blogging software of choice. And as you’re going to be getting an insane amount of visitors (after all, you’ve got a great idea, right?) you’ve decided to buy some decent hardware to cope with the traffic.
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Tags: ant, capistrano, load balanced, NFS, WordPress, wordpress plugin on NFS
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When is a bug not a bug?
August 25th, 2009
I used to work with someone who said that most bugs in software didn’t exist.
His reckoning was down to the fact that most specifications for functionality aren’t tight enough. For example, if the spec for an adding function was to add two numbers together, adding 5 and 9 together and returning a value of 162 was acceptable. Even returning nothing, or null, or a gazillion was also ok. The specification should have said that the function had to add two numbers and return the correct mathematical result.
Tags: bugs, Code, undocumented features
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REST or SOAP? Or don’t care?
August 17th, 2009I think we’ve realised at Wapple that when it comes to web services, not everyone always has the same level of technology that we have at our finger tips and completely take for granted.
Take my Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin for WordPress for example, and the way it used to communicate with Wapple’s web services. It used to use SOAP simply because that was the protocol we chose to employ as our means for delivering web services.
Tags: Joomla, REST, SOAP, Wapple, Web Services, wordpress mobile plugin, XMLRPC
Posted in Development, Joomla, Web Services, WordPress | 1 Comment »
The need for speed
August 16th, 2009How fast is it possible for someone to run the 100 metres?
The record had been slowly inching it’s way down from ever since Carl Lewis‘ 9.92 in Seoul in 1998. Second by second, slowly but surely, and scientists in white lab coats were telling everyone that the limit of human speed was on a curve that would slow down year on year.
Tags: asafa powell, carl lewis, cheetah, emu, seoul olympics, TGV, usain bolt
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Clouds.. thousands of em..
August 11th, 2009Not so long ago, the Wapple website had clouds.
Unfortuntely, the powers that be decided that the new version didn’t need them, so rather than sulk about it (ok I did sulk a bit) I’ve turned those hand crafted cumulo nimbii into a WordPress plugin!
Tags: Clouds, fluffy clouds, hot air balloon, UFO, wordpress plugin
Posted in Development, WordPress | 2 Comments »
Hardest level in a game
August 9th, 2009What’s the hardest level on any video game you’ve ever played?
I’m talking about an end of level boss that made you pull your hair out and gnaw your finger nails down to the stumps. A race in a driving game that you just could not win. Something that you think that trying to complete it is as futile as resisting the Borg (Star Trek not the tennis player).
Tags: bjorn borg, Driver, GTA San Andreas Driving School, the borg, The Presidents Run, video games
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Top 5 WordPress Plugins
August 2nd, 2009
It seems as if every man and his dog is writing a “top 5 plugins for wordpress” – the problem is they all sound the same and there’s never anything new. So as I’m a bit late to WP party, my list will be all about plugins that have got me up and running in my early days as a blogger.
Tags: plugins, WordPress, wordpress plugins, wordpress top 5 plugins
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