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A year with wordpress

It has been one year since I started developing with Wordpress so I though I would write about a year working with it. Topics I will be covering are theme and plugin creation, my experience with 3rd party plugins, which ones I would recommend and which ones I would travel half way around the world to avoid. Prior to Wordpress I developed my own cms' they were build for purpose and never had reusability in mind. Website to website...

New website

Once again I have redesign Applicious and again this time I hope to use it for more than a root website. This time I am determined! I have removed all the links and used funcionality, this will be a blog site nothing more and nothing less. Right lets get down to business. I will be writing both tutorials and general blog items which will most probably range from bored little rants to full on articles that might actually...

I bought a house

I am now a homeowner! Yay! After years of dreadful student houses and dreadful flats and stupid landlords I have moved into a lovely new build in Chorley with my Fiancee Kirsty. It is a nice 2 up 2 down but it has two toilets, overlooks a brook and to the rear there is a carport and a canal.

New bike & passed my bike test!

I’ve finally done it, I have got my full bike license! Just in time for it to be totally unrestricted as well. I passed by test with Race ways who are just simply amazing. This cannot be said about the previous instructors at Green light, not only did they seem to go out of their way to getting tests booked they also appeared to have taught me bad practises, thank for for raceways! Now for the bike...I have traded...