WordPress Tools & Skills: My Top 5

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WordPress can be a complex Content Management System, not necessarily in it’s size or function; but seeing a completed and fully customised WordPress can bear little resemblance to the original ‘vanilla’ installation. This is because WordPress can be customised to such a degree that it matches pretty much any requirement exactly; so as a Web [...]

Creating a Custom Delegate

Custom Delegates are one of the best ways of communicating amongst a series of classes in iOS. I always forget how to add custom delegates correctly, so here I go documenting it for future reference. I hope this guide is able to help others as well as myself. Setting up your Custom Delegate Here’s the [...]

Adobe Edge: Embedding Animations in a Page

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Adobe Edge is a brand new piece of software from Adobe, which is currently still in Preview stage. It implements many of the features I’m used to in Adobe Flash, but exports exclusively as HTML5 animation. You can download the Adobe Edge preview on the Adobe Website. Adobe has been the victim of some criticism [...]

Optimising & Streamlining CakePHP Installations

Optimising & streamlining CakePHP installations can be pretty tricky, because it’s such a broad system. I built a CakePHP based application for my workplace that involves tracking jobs. We do a lot of jobs at Celf Creative, so naturally, the database is quite bulky. I was getting a lot of ‘complaints’ from my colleagues that [...]

A Quick Way to Debug WordPress 500 Errors

I’ve built and uploaded three WordPress based websites this week, so at the moment I’m pretty ‘well-schooled’ in how to migrate from a local to live server. I had a curious error with the third. Somehow, it just wouldn’t display after uploading. Here’s my usual workflow: Upload Files to Server Export SQL Database Import SQL [...]