Good web design is changing again. Is it the influence of the growth of mobile devices? It’s certainly influenced my adoption of Nulis on the blog. They are picture rich, with lots of white space, borderless and short columns (often implementing lists) and strong rows! (They also tend to go to the second page by…
Read more
Tag Clouds have been bugging me for ages, and I have just replaced, WP Category Tag Cloud, which is pretty awesome. The featured picture is a picture generated by tagcloud. I now use a plug-in called TagCloudShortCode. You can view the current tag cloud at https://davelevy.info/wiki/the-tag-cloud/
Read more
I have been considering Julian Huppert’s record as an MP and have come across the following resources to help me understand it. I have of course seen him speak at the last three OrgCON conferences, the recent Digital Question time and in the Westminster Hall debate on Snowden & GCHQ, which I reviewed in my…
Read more
I think I might go there. It’s in Galicia, just around the corner from Coruna but possibly most accessible from Santander, which can be reached by ship or by ‘plane.
Read more
I had a quick look at Nextscripts: Social Network Auto Poster. It claims to be able to forward posts to other social networks. These include as targets, twitter, linkedin and facebook. The also offer Google+ but that needs an additional library which may be chargeable. I need to work on this a bit more. Since…
Read more
While testing and demonstrating this wordpress based site to colleagues, I had problems with the Add This plugin. This was caused by my Ghostery settings which I use on all browsers that support it. This site uses the “Add This” plugin which uses cookies, and so Ghostery will block it, unless you set Ghostery to…
Read more
As a result of the EP’s LIBE committee report on the EU Copyright Regulation, in Feb 2015, I built a Storify page and propose to write a blog article. This page captures some of the resources I used to write it. They come from my blog, the IP Kat, out-law.com, torrentfreak and flickr, where martin…
Read more
I needed to install WAMP on my PC, to support some Amazon developments; I needed a screen interface to my database. Here are some notes and links. I talk about installation, and port conflicts. I might expand the install notes to include advice on mysql security.
Read more
I was point at a Parliament TV clip from the House of Commons and wanted to experiment with using the stop parameter. The http code is as follows,
Read more
This is a delight. This post at wordpress’ support forum is the place to start. This wasn’t the problem, but I am sure we’ll be back!
Read more
As you can see I have been provoked into thinking about the problems to which Dev/Ops claims to be the answer. These may be weak on the ideas around “plant as software” but here are some links.
Read more
My original article in 2015 pointed at the fanclub’s grive, this ceased to work on my elementary build and so with some googling I found an alternative. NB I moved from elementary to ubuntu in 2019. I revisited this in 2023, while using Ubuntu 22. For U22 this is now integrated and accessed via online…
Read more
I had a chat with Kieron Bradley, a long time collaborator and colleague and we looked at new age storage/persistence architectures. New ideas are coming out of Linkedin, and the recommended further reading includes,
Read more
While working on Nulis and while attempting to solve some other problems I began to need to document the contents of wordpress databases. The first problem I sought to solve was to build a visual map of the site. This needs the schema to be understood and the table contents to be extracted. This needs…
Read more
I had a quick look to check out erlang and installed it on one of my VMs. I also checked out what “Hello World” looked like. Stackoverflow has a getting started article here…. This article is currently just a couple of links.
Read more