Category: Application design
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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 is a cross-post of my investigation that I posted on his site. Cross-post Thank you Michael, I have done a little reading “Professional WordPress” by Brad Williams et. al. http://shibashake.com/wordpress-theme/write-a-plugin-for-wordpress-multi-site http://www.wphub.com/tutorials/plugins-compatible-wordpress-multisite/ http://www.onextrapixel.com/2013/01/08/how-to-properly-code-your-plugin-for-a-wordpress-multisite/ These are my…
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Humour: Feedback on God’s creation
I find graphic design to be a thankless task and always try to be a good client. Here are Timothy McSweeney’s ideas about what client feedback God would get about his creation.
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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 is some helpful stuff later on.) Many of us today are not developing new applications but ones which must work with, or sit within other applications that generate HTML and JavaScript. One very common example is…
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Is there a standard representation for cricket score data?
Yesterday I volunteered to be the scorer at a cricket match. The opposing team’s score kindly showed me how to do it. As I sat in the rain, confused by the scoresheet and trying to distinguish between zero runs “.” and a no ball “0”, I thought “there has to be a better way”. However before…
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Simplifying WordPress farm deployments using symbolic links
I have previously posted on how to create a WordPress (Multisite) farm on a Bitnami server. A big problem when you manage a farm is keeping all the plug-ins up-to date. Until the release of WordPress 3.9 it was not possible to have single copy of a plug-in in a master version and then symbolically…
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10 year’s old comment during UX testing
I was doing some UX testing with my 10 year son. When testing a form I asked him how he would move from field to field. He thought about it carefully and then replied “on a horse”.
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GPL: Living with cancer
The GPL software licence has been described as, “a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches” The GPL is deeply antithetical to idea the of software as private property (it is called a FREE Software Licence) and denies the opportunity for developers to create capital by requiring them to…
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Don’t do checklist for web design
I am doing quite a lot of WordPress design at the moment for Lewisham Under Water Hockey Club and Dulwich College Christmas Fair so I will bear this check list of things not to do in mind. http://mashable.com/2014/01/14/outdated-web-features/#!
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Books about “Requirements Management”
In the frothy drive to all things “agile” formal requirements management is often forgotten. Requirements management is core to the waterfall/spiral development process but is often overlooked by agile teams. I believe that requirements management is a professional discipline that should be considered on a par with software programming and test. To my mind the…
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Opera joins Google/Apple in-crowd with shift to WebKit and Chromium
http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/13/webkit_sucks_on_webkit_chromium/
Dr James Bayley 