Fellow developers have been on at me for the last couple of years to ditch Apache and move to nginx. If you know what nginx is then you know why, if not let’s have a quick look at what nginx is. Nginx (pronounced engine-x) is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy, as [...]
Read More →I love Github, it’s free for open source projects, looks lovely and has changed the way I distribute both my open source code and the way I work on client projects. However in terms of issue tracking it is a bit of a let down. Recently we started using Redmine in the office to keep [...]
Read More →I’m sure you’ve had the same problem. You make some changes to your sites CSS file and don’t get to see it until you hard refresh the CSS. Damn you Mr. Browser caching my stylesheet! Damn you .htaccess for setting long expire times on my assets. Well it’s all good as it speeds up the [...]
Read More →WordPress gives us lots of little things we can tweak to our own needs. WordPress out of the box includes Gravatar support and has a number ways you can use this in your themes and plugins. The usual situation is attaching a Gravatar to when someone posts a comment (as happens on my site) if [...]
Read More →After 2 weeks and 3 million downloads WordPress 3.4 has it’s first update. WordPress 3.4.1 is a small maintenance release that fixes 18 bugs and adds a couple of security fixes discovered by the WordPress security team. Get the full low down on the WordPress Blog and make sure you update!
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I'm Will, a full time web developer, geek and musician. I develop using PHP and MySQL and spend most of my time working with WordPress. When I'm not buried in code I'm gaming, cooking or writing and recording music in my studio. I like sci-fi, pancakes and coffee and am totally prepared for the zombie apocalypse...
Why not be super creepy and check me out on all these other sites, I think they call it social media?
