About AaronM In 2013 we moved from the city to a smaller rural township, which means our water supply is now on onsite 22,500 litre water tank. After spending our first summer here up and down the ladder checking the water level in the tank, and having actually no idea how much water we would use in … Read more
I have been listening to a bunch of podcasts lately, mainly the MS Dev Show (hosted by Jason Young and Carl Schweitzer). They have some great speakers on discussing app development in general, best practices, tips and tricks etc. It’s gone a long way to renew my interest in development, specifically around apps. I’ve had … Read more
Got this in an email recently, had to share it! In ancient Israel , it came to pass that a trader by the name of Abraham Com did take unto himself a young wife by the name of Dorothy. And Dot Com was a comely woman, broad of shoulder and long of leg. Indeed, … Read more
So, you want to run WordPress on IIS? There are a load of posts out there which advise against it with all sorts of reasons. Some of the actual problems I have encountered, and everyone else seems to encounter, and I have since fixed are: Speed – Everyone seems to think PHP runs slow on … Read more
If you run WordPress multisite (like I do) then eventually you will run into the need to enable a theme on just one site, and not have it available for other sites for use. The default option when you install a new theme into multisite is ‘Network Disabled’ which means no one can use it. Normally you … Read more
Recently I had a request to remove 300,000 or so emails from a users mailbox. Turned out two auto responders got talking to each other, until one of the mailboxes finally filled up and stopped responding. Of course when the user tried to open Outlook, it struggled to download 300,000 message headers and, well, here … Read more
I have noticed a trend in advertising these days where rather than advertising your actual web site, you are telling users to ‘Google <Insert brand name or product here>‘. This is probably the silliest thing you could ever do when advertising. The first time I noticed this technique being used was in 2007/2008 with the failed Hamilton Air Show. Radio … Read more
So, you have your own WordPress site, and you are using some theme you got of the internet. You upgrade to Internet Explorer 9, and bam, all your page headings dissapear. I had this exact issue on this site, as the theme I use generates the post hears using Cufon. It’s not a WordPress issue, and this could … Read more
Thanks to @CyrisXD I am going to give this a go – thats right, #30DaysOfGeek. Over the years I think I have been pretty cautious in what information I publish about myself on the net. It’s only in the last 8 months I have joined up to Twitter, and changed my profile settings on Facebook … Read more
