tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32592014867799954122024-02-19T01:38:31.738+00:00Words make you wiserTristan Bailey's work, thoughts and discoveries in the web development, seo, php, mysql and thoughts on anything else I find interesting.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02259239222145337723noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259201486779995412.post-2421602299636466982014-03-31T08:37:00.001+01:002014-03-31T08:37:45.186+01:00My site is now back up at holdingbay.co.ukAfter freelancing for two years and never finding time to get a new look up, I have finally got a start to it back on line and shall endevor to do some writing on it in the next month.<br />
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So have a look at <a href="http://holdingbay.co.uk/">Holdingbay</a> and sent me feedback or job offers. It is just a theme and only started working on it for a week so not looking to win awards just need a space to talk about my work and me.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02259239222145337723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259201486779995412.post-68198792363391472842014-01-31T09:14:00.000+00:002014-01-31T09:21:04.735+00:00Do we need Website Production training courses to grow the roles?<span style="font-family: inherit;">For all my time building sites in house at companies I have had production staff to work with. They tend to come from all different backgrounds and often did not apply for that job. Production staff are sort of cs-junior frontend-data-marketing-writing-helpful types. These are people who learn how to process the data and images and work the website. They are not a one role person that does just content entry or advertising or sales. They are helpful to process or batch process and a little layout raw material into resource or finished work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I was recently asked to freelance on a big site doing a upper end version of this, setting up tools and reports and batching data into the writers and marketers but for the time and possibly the budget it did not fit. What they were finding hard is often people dont look for this as a role so were finding it hard to recruit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have been talking with my team and some friends about we find it difficult to find or train people to be able to block out sites and then train the client. So we want a short course or cert that our clients could even do as a paid version. The subject would be Joomla/CMS Production Training.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">What we would need:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Know how to use joomla 3</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Know how to make menus</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Know how to make module</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Know how to make articles</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Know how to make categories</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Know how to build a page from a blank install with the parts</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Know a base set of extensions</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Know basic html needed for use in an article and what it might be used else where</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Know the different use of html, css, js so they can ask issues intelligently</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Make images the right size and file format</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Plus level:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Can look at a design and have idea what plugins and modules they would need to make</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Know how to research new extensions and suggest them</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Be able to train the client on these things</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Be able to offer first level support on these</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Know when a problem is a bug or an error in the setup they can fix</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Plus level variation if html skills:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Build some template parts from html they were given </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Task ideas:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Migrate a wordpress or static site to Joomla</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Load data from a spreadsheet into joomla</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Get images from any source and put in the site the right sizes</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Add all the base menu + articles needed to the site</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Add sample 10% content to the sections of the site so that layouts can work and client can see and do</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Change a theme on a joomla site and update it</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Update extensions </span></div>
<div style="color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Do backups</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Maybe install joomla from scratch to make a new version</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">How does anyone feel about this sort of role and how you fill it or do the work?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As a php developer i just want to set the structure for the site and build the extra modules not fill it out so i can see if one thing works.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02259239222145337723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259201486779995412.post-73594017320859815972013-12-09T11:12:00.004+00:002013-12-09T11:12:45.601+00:00When work slows for winter, my mind moves to StartupSo, I have been pondering my bootstrap idea for a bit over a year now, and feel that if I dont make time for it I wont do it. So have been taking the time at christmas parties and meet ups to pitch it to other people. This has been a very valuable idea, a. because drunk people are difficult to persuade so takes good clear effort and b. some of the people I have talked to early in an evening have turned to very possible leads.<br />
<br />
It has given me confidence in the idea and trying to keep it simple. I have two or three business people interested in trying a beta of it so , better get my coding skates on over Christmas.<br />
<br />
All I will say for now is I need to name it, and its and Analytics SaaS web app, and is not a real time dashboard in node. (like the all sub 20 year olds and measure bowling were running, kids ! )<br />
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Also thanks to Peter and Emmanuel who might work with me on this and have been good sounding boards so far.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02259239222145337723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259201486779995412.post-34521503913315299562013-10-23T13:34:00.000+01:002013-10-23T13:34:22.133+01:00Looking back at my 2012 web predictions with @haydens30Just took a look at the email I saved to my dropbox 12/12/2011 for a look back at my 2012 web predictions with @haydens30.
I didn't do too bad if maybe 6/12 months early on some.
1. Yes. I think we can say social is at a high, not sure if it will go higher or just settle.
2. Yes. More learn and bootstrap businesses and ones focusing on profit not user numbers.
3. Yes. Not sure they made a backlash but even Rupert Murdoch digital paper has struggled to stay open
4. Yes. Cant go a day without someone saying it.
5. Yes. And predicted RIM fail, even though was fairly clear, I am happy with it.
Almost time for this years ones. Anyone else?
2012 web predictions
In response to Hayden Sutherland ( @haydens30 )
1. Social will peak late in the year so we will either have a crash or first it will need stronger understanding of kpis
2. New business models that make sense to use for online businesses will become usable. More work practice understanding not money business.
3. The first newspaper to fold or stop printing will come and blame online.
4. Responsive design will be what it is requested from the start
5. More old tech will be abandoned and die. Like adobe giving up flash to progress. Mobile forms of apps will mean you don't need the old legacy option. So RIM and others will fall. "the fall of old to evolution" ie company will build new and let old dieAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02259239222145337723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259201486779995412.post-40109350061954966182013-01-16T11:50:00.000+00:002013-01-16T11:52:03.121+00:00Launched rebranded and now responsive Luxury travel site Mirus Journeys Launched a site rebrand under a new name of Mirus Journeys this week while at Wild Dog Design - http://www.mirusjourneys.com/
Its my first big responsive site (based on Joomla 3 for those who are interested). Been a nice project to work on and John who did the front end dev and Stan who did some of the design have been good to work with. What do you think?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02259239222145337723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259201486779995412.post-11806718328470508812012-12-04T15:11:00.001+00:002012-12-04T15:12:03.133+00:00Whats more exciting than an ArduinoWhats more exciting is getting one in the post and thinking of what to build with it.
I have wanted to build something with electronics for a long time but electrical diagrams and believing it a bit hard have put me off. But I went to the Build Brighton hack space last week where they did an evening on RaspberryPi, and Python. Python I can do and the stuff some people were building with trail and error excited me again. Looking at the two systems RaspberryPi is more a full computer but small, and Arduino is much smaller but better to interface with. Even better you can stick an Arduino on a Pi for greater flexibility.
So though I would like to program it in python I think starting with an Arduino will be better as I'll have to work my way round 32k rather than a high celling of power. So on my christmas list is lots of electrical tools and kit. Hope I can get my son interested in pressing buttons and lighting LEDs too.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/120948981096?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649
This is the kit im starting with
A new world of Sketch and soldering awaits. (Interested if you are also doing the same?) :)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02259239222145337723noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259201486779995412.post-25496877157322323182012-06-11T14:29:00.000+01:002012-06-11T14:29:02.665+01:00Top Chef Chris Bailey first Popup Restaurant in BrightonMy favorite Chef Chris Bailey starts his first Popup Restaurant in Hove, Brighton. He is calling it <a href="http://chefchrisbailey.com/projects/">"Chris Bailey's ‘Taste of cheese’ Menu"</a> Looking forward to the cheese inspired menu taken from the host <a href="http://www.la-cave.co.uk/">Cheese Shop La Cave in Hove</a>.<br />
He is doing a <a href="http://chefchrisbailey.com/projects/">6 course amazing menu</a> for just £35 a head. From talking with him the tickets are going fast and it should be great night.<br />
I hope I can squeeze in to this one but am looking forward to making it to the next one he puts on in a few weeks too.<br />
p.s. he is my brother but I did not get him a Michelin Star his great cooking did ;)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02259239222145337723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259201486779995412.post-61903877220175944602012-05-08T17:14:00.001+01:002012-06-26T15:39:09.946+01:00Learning to make vim fast and lovable editor.. Or settings and tips I have learnt to make vim nicer, but are not on by default. ( I will keep adding to this )<br />
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I am using vim as my main editor for a few years but since freelancing I am learning to use it even more.<br />
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<h3>
Vimrc settings</h3>
<div>
My changes to vim at the moment look like this</div>
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syntax on<br />
set bg=dark </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
" indent<br />
set cindent<br />
set smartindent<br />
set autoindent </blockquote>
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" tabs<br />
set expandtab<br />
set shiftwidth=2<br />
set tabstop=4<br />
set showmatch " Show matching brackets.<br />
" auto complete + C-n<br />
set showcmd " Show (partial) command in status line.<br />
" case search<br />
set ignorecase " search ingore case if all lower search<br />
set smartcase " Do smart case matching (flips igonore if use any caps)<br />
set incsearch " search as type<br />
" highlight search<br />
set hlsearch " highlight all searches " :nohlsearch<br />
"set visualbell<br />
"set cinkeys=0{,0},:,0#,!,!^F<br />
set cinkeys=0{,0},:,0#<br />
set cinwords=if,else,while,do,for,switch,case " Which keywords should indent<br />
imap <C-e> <esc>$a<br />
imap <C-l> <esc>g_<br />
:nmap <C-n> :tabnext<cr><br />
" Press Space to turn off highlighting and clear any message already displayed.<br />
:nnoremap <silent> <Space> :nohlsearch<Bar>:echo<CR><br />
" Press F4 to toggle highlighting on/off, and show current value.<br />
:noremap <F4> :set hlsearch! hlsearch?<CR></blockquote>
<div>
<br /></div>
Outside of the config you can open files in tabs inside vim and then tab between them<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
vim -p file1 file2 file3</blockquote>
then use 'tg' to go to the next tab<br />
<br />
Open a grep search of files as tabs in vim<br />
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vim -p `fgrep -l cust_function core/*.php`<br />
</blockquote>
This would search for 'cust_function' in the dir core for php files<br />
<h3>
Vimdiff - visual character level diff from cmd line</h3>
<div>
vimdiff is much nicer to look at if you have to understand merging files on the cmd line.</div>
<div>
if you migrate from</div>
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<br /></div>
<div>
line by line without checking white space (so ignore tabs/spaces which can change with editors and versioning)</div>
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diff -w filea.php fileb.php</blockquote>
files side by side if you need to see context of more than a couple of changes<br />
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diff -wy filea.php fileb.php</blockquote>
In this view you can scroll up and down but right edge gets cut, you can see marks in middle of page<br />
| different<br />
> change to right version<br />
< change to left version<br />
<br />
But those two show only lines. Vimdiff shows colours to show character changes and move around in a visual way<br />
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vimdiff filea.php fileb.php</blockquote>
And if you add this to ~/.vimrc you dont see the white space changes which is nice.<br />
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set diffopt+=iwhite</blockquote>
When in vimdiff you can move between windows and also which is nice, push and pull changes between versions.<br />
So move to change "dp" pushes change from left to right side. The other way "do" pulls it from right to left<br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"><span style="background-color: white;">To switch windows in vimdiff or </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"><span style="background-color: white;">to navigate windows in vimdiff or </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"><span style="background-color: white;">to change windows in vimdiff try the following: </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">The ":vertical" command can be inserted before another command that </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">splits a window. </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">MOVING BETWEEN WINDOWS </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"> </span> </blockquote>
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">CTRL-W h move to the window on the left </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"> CTRL-W j move to the window below</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">CTRL-W k move to the window above</span> </blockquote>
</blockquote>
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">CTRL-W l move to the window on the right </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"> CTRL-W t move to the TOP window </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"> <br /> </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">CTRL-W b move to the BOTTOM window </span></blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Moving windows </span> </blockquote>
</blockquote>
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">CTRL-W K move window to the upper</span> </blockquote>
</blockquote>
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">CTRL-W H move window to the far left</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">CTRL-W J move window to the bottom </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"> CTRL-W L move window to the far right </span></blockquote>
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<div style="background-color: white; font-family: fixed-width, monospace; font-size: 12px;">
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<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">
source: <a href="https://groups.google.com/group/bash-tips/browse_thread/thread/90ecf1f0555354e7">https://groups.google.com/group/bash-tips/browse_thread/thread/90ecf1f0555354e7</a></div>
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Have Vim jump to the last position when reopening a file<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
if has("autocmd")<br />
au BufReadPost * if line("'\"") > 0 && line("'\"") <= line("$")<br />
\| exe "normal! g'\"" | endif<br />
endif</blockquote>
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Auto complete comment block lines.<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
" In edit mode<br />
" #b<return><br />
" type text<br />
" #e<return><br />
:ab #b /************************************************<br />
:ab #e ************************************************/<br />
:ab #l /*----------------------------------------------*/
</blockquote>
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Show hidden characters, leading and tailing white space with<br />
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:set list</blockquote>
Then you can see if you have lots of white space as $ will be on end of lines<br />
Next you can run a zap trailing white space<br />
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:1,$s/[ <tab>]*$//</blockquote>
and off with <br />
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:set nolist</blockquote>
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source: <a href="http://www.oualline.com/vim-cook.html">http://www.oualline.com/vim-cook.html</a><br />
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Not quite vim but useful</h3>
You can get a sort of auto complete from your history file. So for example<br />
cd PageUp<br />
changes to<br />
cd /file/path/i/used/earlier<br />
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or if your jumping around<br />
cd /file/path/PageUpPageUp <br />
becomes the last bit<br />
cd /file/path/i/used/before/that<br />
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Change it here:<br />
vim /etc/inputrc
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Then uncomment the lines for using PageUp and PageDown to fill the rest of your cmd propt from your history<br />
# alternate mappings for “page up” and “page down” to search the history<br />
#”e[5~”: history-search-backward<br />
#”e[6~”: history-search-forwardAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02259239222145337723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259201486779995412.post-53336440165529047682012-04-27T12:14:00.000+01:002012-04-27T12:14:31.255+01:00Freelance project work in Brighton or Remote from homeAs we come into May 2012 I am looking for Freelance Web Development project work in Brighton or Remote from home from end May and June onwards.<div>
Any sort of updating websites or maintaining them or building them new. I am a PHP web developer and also to project strategy and Social Media and SEO supported by Web Analytics.</div>
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So you could be anywhere in the world but I live in Brighton so will be talking to you from here or meeting you near by.</div>
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thanks</div>
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tristan</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02259239222145337723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259201486779995412.post-7849632253304326592011-11-17T10:41:00.001+00:002011-11-17T10:46:45.713+00:00This week I have mostly been looking for freelance work and djangoThis week I have mostly been getting my head into Python and learning django for my new blog/portfolio site. I want to find some more evening feelance work so time to get my pencil and code out on something for myself and get my self a new site so I can show some of the work I have been doing and see if I can get some more.<br />
<br />
Things I have learnt about django so far that had caught me out:<br />
It caches code to memory so use the test server and restart alot, this caught me out as sometimes files would update and sometimes not.<br />
The django 4 stage tutorial is good and worth doing but I was trying to skip ahead and bring in other snippets for template creation and they were breaking because I had missed some small details on imports. So worth going slowly. The tutorial is nice as it does things basically and then goes back and layers over the last function with more features so you build up knowledge.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02259239222145337723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259201486779995412.post-14856102999494384852011-09-15T15:08:00.000+01:002011-09-15T15:08:21.453+01:00Still hereNot so happy with the new minimal Blogger so am learning more Python and django so will be seeking to have some hacking weekends next month and get something new up and make more effort to post a bit. I find twitter so easy to brain dump, share and blog in that its hard to take the time to write more.<br />
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1. get fit<br />
2. get a django site up<br />
3. post more blogs<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02259239222145337723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259201486779995412.post-16021555583112486652009-06-21T14:01:00.000+01:002009-06-21T14:01:15.876+01:00Podcast take away lessons now included in Spanish courseGet extra value from your <a href="Http://www.cactuslanguagetraining.com/en/languageminis"></a>Spanish evening course from Cactus Language courses UK. <br />
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<br />
@1milliontweets is an account for a charity that is asking for $1 to tweet through their account. They hope to reach 1 million tweets and their by write a book and raise some money for their causes. The Twestival for water charity was really well supported and I feel went with the theme of twitter for social gathering. This seems to cache in on the <a href="http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/">million dollar homepage</a> that got a lots of publicity.<br />
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For a charity fair enough, but for twitter in this way I am not sure how good it is on a new account. When I wrote this had 173 followers, so the value to people sending messages at the moment is around that mark, where as after a few hundred thousand messages $1 will go a lot further for a company. Also with twitter being as it is you could just <a href="http://twitter.com/1milliontweets">@1milliontweets </a>or #1milliontweets in your message and it will be almost as effective.<br />
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Anyway we can watch and wait for how this works for them.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02259239222145337723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259201486779995412.post-55875536769545021582008-11-13T07:06:00.003+00:002008-11-13T07:24:55.204+00:00Launching a new language learning siteWe have just started to beta our new site. <a href="http://www.cactuslanguagetraining.com/en/spanish/">Learn about learning Spanish</a> or <a href="http://www.cactuslanguagetraining.com/en/spanish/">start learning French</a> as well as Italian, German and English. We will be adding more languages to the site soon.<br /><br />The site is for people to share what learning a new language was like and us to share ways of learning and where is good to do it. So visit www.cactuslanguagetraining.com/en/ today.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02259239222145337723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259201486779995412.post-72749903375882038102008-10-09T04:09:00.003+01:002008-10-09T04:16:18.601+01:00Expressionengine related articles codeJust found out a way of doing related entries in a slightly nicer way than just (In same category, latest first).<br />Use track_views and get counts for weblog entries not just templates. you can then sort buy the view count, giving you the most read stories.<br /><br />It is not ture related articles but at least it is most popular articles in a category, and it will keep updating, but not jump as much as sort by date.<br /><br />You can remove the {view_count_one}, just for effect.<br /><br />Single Entry page: (you will need to look at the source)<br /><br /><code>{exp:weblog:entries weblog="{weblog_name}" orderby="date" sort="desc" limit="1" track_views="one"}<br />{title}<br />--{view_count_one}<br />{/exp:weblog:entries}<br /><br />{!-- Followed by --}<br />{exp:weblog:entries related_categories_mode="on" limit="3" orderby="view_count_one"}<br />{if count == "1"}<br /> <h3>Related Articles</h3><br /> <ul class="relatedArticles"><br />{/if}<br /> <li><br /> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%7Btitle_permalink=">{title} {view_count_one}</a><br /> </li><br />{if count == total_results}<br /> </ul><br />{/if}<br />{/exp:weblog:entries}</code>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02259239222145337723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259201486779995412.post-6459328823486604612008-10-09T00:25:00.001+01:002008-10-09T03:05:17.148+01:00Yahoo! Web Analytics gets out and closer to the whole web<a href="http://visualrevenue.com/blog/2008/10/indextools-is-now-yahoo-web-analytics.html">Dennis blogged about Yahoo! Web Analytics</a> getting out to Yahoo advertisers and Store owners today. I think there are alot of people like me watching and waiting for IndexTools release as Yahoo! Web Analytics for the last five months.<br />
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I really want to move from Google Analytics to Yahoo Analytics as IndexTools seems such a great product from the demonstation I saw Dennis and SnowValley do a great talk in London a couple of months ago. Dennis is really good so hope this runs and runs.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02259239222145337723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259201486779995412.post-92024498115064848212008-09-12T11:35:00.001+01:002008-09-12T11:35:35.646+01:00Bill and Windows still have it - no marketing and too much money - http://ping.fm/6NcguAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02259239222145337723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259201486779995412.post-42508795561536391812008-09-08T10:31:00.002+01:002008-09-08T10:35:17.373+01:00Sharing comments accross the netI heard about comment sharing or pooling across blogs from Leo Laport a month or two ago but now we are getting closer with our new product trying out <a href="http://www.intensedebate.com/">http://www.intensedebate.com/</a> and <a href="http://www.cocomment.com/">http://www.cocomment.com/</a> seemed a good idea. Also using Gravitar sites well with me.<br /><br />I am trying intensedebate on this blog even if it will not get all the comments it could. They have a WordPress version coming so will have to wait for that. I like the idea of not having to register lots of places to comment and also to comment on idfferent pages on different sites about the same thing.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02259239222145337723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259201486779995412.post-71244743315364183832008-09-07T08:40:00.001+01:002008-09-07T08:44:32.913+01:00Currently working onI am currently doing alot of work with Expression Engine and waiting for version 2.0. We have built one site with it and are working on a new CMS version of CactusLanguageTraining.com to be called Cactus Tailor-made which just need enough resource to finish writing the copy and some forms work. And our exciting new project of sharing our knowledge of language learning and trying to find the right path for people.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02259239222145337723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259201486779995412.post-91879799534064362052008-08-12T09:42:00.001+01:002008-08-12T09:42:58.489+01:00Google local pulling more review sourcesNoticed that google local is pulling more sources for reviews:<br />
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Touchsouthampton.com<br />
Tripadvisor.com<br />
Trustedplaces.com<br />
Igougo.com<br />
Viamichelin.co.uk<br />
Viamichelin.fr<br />
Viamichelin.it<br />
Viamichelin.deAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02259239222145337723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259201486779995412.post-23282346328624256262008-07-11T02:12:00.004+01:002008-07-11T03:08:49.730+01:00Firefox saves Windows Vista for meFirefox is my computer interface for 90% of the day I was just think and that is the only thing that saves my annoyance with Windows vista on my laptop. I have to say I am happy-er with the interface than previous versions and I do not mind saying that and the new version of office - though I can not find some things first time - is I think a good shift in the product. I know others may not think so. Firefox saves my hating the random crashes of my Dell Inspiron 1525 (with blue top) for two more recient things. Aside from the standards compliance, better browser, extensions, web developer tool bar and firebug and not being the crap of IE. The two things are spell checking in textareas (though would be nice if it would check inputs too) as my spelling is not the best and it saves typing emails in word. And the imporant one saving all my tabs when the machine blue screens for no reason!<br /><br />I regularly have maybe 8+ tabs open and would not remember them all if firefox or windows crashed. So if it did forget them I would have to start my thinking all over again. This then means that the crash becomes a momentary pause rather than a throw things accross the room and I thank it many times.<br /><br />My laptop even with all the updates I throw at it crashes for reasons only known to it's self despite all the updates I throw at it. I amoung only a few people who are used to pushing computers to crash. I run alot of aps at once, install a lot of software and put off restarting until a crash. I don't let windows time to refresh I switch between aps when one is running slow and come back to it a few seconds latter (expecting it does not have to do everthing now but with work out the maths in a minute).<br /><br />The machine I use has to be ready for the way I work I oftern think and I am 60% likely to crash your machine if I try to demo or fix anything for you. I don't even try to make some elses machine work hard. But they will not usualy have thinks set quite how I do so after firing up a browser and need to browse a file and in the massive delay time the server takes to list the contence of a folder I just have to fit their settings to show files extensions and list in Details way and by the time I have switched back the browser and wated for a url now not to load the network has not frozen and the machine locked up. Why never quite sure that is not a freaky thing to do so I am of the mind that machines know who uses them and work best like that like a horse being riden or a car driven.<br /><br />But I digress My HP big tower at work seems to have had screen driver issues and a windows update kept it up and only now crashes less than once a week, I can deal with that. So why does the laptop that is not running a million apps for work and oftern restarted work so badly?<br /><br />I am just glad Firefox saves most of my anger. Thank you MozillaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02259239222145337723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259201486779995412.post-29637779743714981862008-07-11T02:09:00.001+01:002008-07-11T02:12:49.000+01:00Press 2.0 - Online Consumer Reviews Significantly Impact Consumer Purchasing Decisions<a href="http://press20.blogspot.com/2008/07/online-consumer-reviews-significantly.html">Press 2.0 - Communications in a digital world: Online Consumer Reviews Significantly Impact Consumer Purchasing Decisions</a><br /><br />Customer reviews = confidence and openness of brand. If you are open to the comments and reviews of your customers you face the real world and work as a brand that is your friend and support but maybe you look the sparkling glimmer of the advertising unobtainable with our brand X and return to old fashioned values of quality service and product.<br /><br />Its a brave new world for brands moving their online but it is not such a new world, if your will to respond to the customer and can translate it to the offline world too.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02259239222145337723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259201486779995412.post-79086756199827704282008-07-09T03:46:00.001+01:002008-07-09T03:48:33.626+01:00Could Twitter recreate The War of The Worlds Radio playThis zombie attack twitter pic:<br /><a href="http://kensingtonvictoria.com/blog/2008/07/08/twitter-timeline-during-zombie-attack-pic/">http://kensingtonvictoria.com/blog/2008/07/08/twitter-timeline-during-zombie-attack-pic/</a><br /><br />Makes me wonder, could twitter be used with some online video and stuff to create the online version of The War of The Worlds Radio play. Where people believed the radio and thought they were under attack.<br /><br />Could you spread a viral story/event though twitter and see how many people you would need to start it and then how many tweets it would reach?<a href="http://kensingtonvictoria.com/blog/2008/07/08/twitter-timeline-during-zombie-attack-pic/"></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02259239222145337723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259201486779995412.post-2762292630971155992008-06-04T09:41:00.002+01:002008-06-04T09:48:01.123+01:00I just found my first use for Yahoo PipesJust found the first time I needed to filter rss. Now that would be a pit of work were it not for Yahoo Pipes. I wanted to get the podcast from NMA but they have Enhanced and MP3 in the same feed. I would not have bothered and just downloaded both each week but I gave Pipes a try and and less than a minute later i have a nice MP3 only RSS.<br /><br />I also noticed that they have a new output option:<br /><a href="http://blog.pipes.yahoo.com/2008/04/02/new-yahoo-pipes-php-serialized-output-renderer/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: New Yahoo! Pipes PHP serialized output renderer">New Yahoo! Pipes PHP serialized output renderer</a><br />This could be really cool as I could do something that would be a few lines of code in PHP just with some drag and drop and a php call and I now have an array to play with.<br /><br />I think I will have to find some use for this soon, as it seems so nice and easy.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02259239222145337723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259201486779995412.post-17675474017320008812008-05-08T10:53:00.002+01:002008-05-08T11:25:12.749+01:00Follow up to SEO best restaurant ranking workI think I can count as a success the couple of tweaks on the black rat website and the Best Restaurant list post that I made here. Blogger has some nice weight for this blog now. Also I am working in a market that is not that competitive but I am moving up the rankings against some big sites.<br /><br />I now have ranking on google for 4th and 5th for theblackrat.co.uk for 'best restaurant winchester' and 5th and 6th for 'best restaurant in winchester'. And even better number 7 after the map list for 'restaurant winchester'. I will follow up in the next moth if that has given more traffic on those searches.<br /><br />Month from 2008-4-8<br />restaurants winchester 14<br />winchester restaurants 9<br />winchester restaurant 6<br />winchester lunch restaurant 2Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02259239222145337723noreply@blogger.com3