October 26, 2016
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I’ve been working on a new service for the last month or so that enables people to log, track and share walks in the UK’s hills and mountains. The service is based on Laravel, and one of the things I … Continue reading
October 25, 2016
by Lee
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On a recent project, I needed to add some Google Maps functionality to a number of pages. The functionality I was looking for included: adding KML layers adding markers onto the maps with custom info windows layering photo thumbnails onto … Continue reading
October 20, 2016
by Lee
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With a couple of Laravel developments out in the wild, I needed to make sure that they were integrated with my existing backup solution, which includes archived / off-server storage of backups. Pulling down the backups once I had them … Continue reading
October 19, 2016
by Lee
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Yesterday’s post talked about the concept of finding things missing, or needing implementing when moving from CMS-as-a-base to pure development frameworks. Yesterday it was enforcing password complexity. Today’s post is about the very core of a CMS – WYSIWYG content editing. There … Continue reading
October 18, 2016
by Lee
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I’ve worked with Drupal & WordPress for the majority of my projects for many years. For a lot of projects that are content-centric they can make a good starting point, and minimize the amount of custom work that needs to … Continue reading
October 17, 2016
by Lee
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I maintain a number of WordPress plugins, and they get used on all manner of WordPress sites. One of my more popular plugins is the WooCommerce Google Product Feed extension. This queries all products, applies some logic, and user-definable mappings and … Continue reading
October 14, 2016
by Lee
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If you’re in the web industry, you’re pretty much guaranteed to have heard of Google Analytics. It’s the de-facto standard in analysing user behaviour on websites. On any site you put together – it’s likely that you’ll set it up. When … Continue reading
October 13, 2016
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One of the projects I’ve worked on recently is a rebuild of workflow system for a large business. The system processes large volumes of data 24 hours a day. It’s important that any errors with the system are flagged, tracked and … Continue reading
October 13, 2016
by Lee
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I was chatting with some fellow tech industry types the other day, when the conversation inevitably turned to cool (“useful”) software components that we’d used on recent projects. It struck me that I’ve worked on a couple of projects (both … Continue reading
April 19, 2016
by Lee
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I’ve spent the last four and half years working with a great team, on some fascinating, large-scale (predominantly Drupal) website builds. I’ve balanced that with a “spare-time” job building and selling WordPress plugins. Working on WordPress plugins in my spare-time gave … Continue reading