Support My Local now sells digital raffle tickets for schools and charities
During the pandemic I founded an online marketplace to help small traders supply local people with food and necessities. Post-pandemic …
Category Archives: Frameworks
Designing secure applications with Formidable Forms
I use Formidable Forms for all my web application development using WordPress. The time spent learning the framework is repaid …
API first development (using Postman)
This is a great article about API first development https://medium.com/postman-engineering/api-first-software-development-for-modern-organizations-fdbfba9a66d3 It is often said that every generation thinks that it …
SAMR: Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, Redefination
As a management consultant frameworks are key tool for me; a well designed framework is quickly understood by the client …
Writing a WordPress plugin for multisite
I use Michael Simpson’s excellent template for writing WordPress plugins. At present it does not explicitly support multisite plugins. This …
CSS: How to “sandbox” a DIV – a lesson in futility
I am writing this article in the spirit of the scientific principle that negative results should be published (but there …
A review of JavaScript drawing libraries for flowcharts, Gantt charts and timelines
Overview I manage my projects using my own ElephantPM project management methodology. This is a similar in many ways to …
Presentation tier: Smart Client vs Sencha Ext JS
For our current project Keyapt we have chosen to use Smartclient for the presentation tier. This is RESTfully coupled to …
Creating data-driven graphs
I have a need to programmatically create flowcharts and organisational charts for use with an WordPress or Wiki site. This …
The semantic web on a platter – Google recipe search
The semantic web has made it to the mainstream in a rather surprising way. Recipe site owners have been marking …
Dr James Bayley 