Category: Technologies to build applications
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Restore The Music UK
I am presently helping Restore The Music UK with their hosting, WordPress and event management challenges. This fine organisation raises money for music in schools and gives grants to enable every pupil to be able to pick up an instrument.
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Creating responsive tables for mobile
“Mobile first” is a real thing. I find that over 88% of my traffic to SupportMyLocal.org is on mobile phones. This poses a bit challenge because not only are customers who are ordering deliveries from local companies using mobile phone the small traders are as well. This means that I have to mobile optimise backend…
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Brilliant introduction to WordPress
I have been using WordPress for many years but have never taken the time to get familiar with the new block editor Gutenberg because I use a mix of WPBakery and handwritten code to create my sites including SupportMyLocal.org which arranges deliveries by small businesses. I have just found this brilliant video with gives an…
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Quotes – better straight than bent
I will be launching CRYPTOSTAR.MONEY soon (“Find Rated Crypto Businesses”) which is built on WordPress. JSON Requires Straight Quotes Many integrations are required and at one point I stash some JSON from the database in a DIV and then read it into Javascript (it would be better to use AJAX but I am doing this…
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WordPress API returns HTML not JSON
Summary I found that in some cases the WordPress API was returning HTML not JSON. Inspection of the HTML showed that I was being redirected to the login page by Formidable Registration Plugin when basic authentication failed. Steps to Resolution The steps to resolution were, Disable all plugins Install Basic Auth plugin from https://github.com/WP-API/Basic-Auth…
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Medium is above average
I have just become a paid publisher on Medium (it’s free). I am going re-post my most popular articles from here and cryptoindex.guru to Medium and see if I get any “claps”. If I do, then I might get paid. My WordPress blogs generate little interaction with users. Most of my traffic comes from organic…
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node.js is really cool
I have just finished a contract and for the last 4 years I have been doing infrastructure work and team team building. A lot has changed in the software development space and one technology interesting technology is node.js. The big ideas in node.js You don’t need a “proper” web server Unlike a typical application server…
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Using Excel 2016 to unpivot data
Normal people, by which I mean those who don’t process data all day will often create data that is present in a crosstab table. This is a poor structure for storing and processing information. We say that its “denormalised” because the three different columns “Europe”, “USA”, “Asia” contain information of the same type – “budget…
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Create the Union of two tables in Excel revisited
In 2013 I published a technique to create the union of two tables in Excel. This post is still very popular and so I am revisiting this topic. Excel 2016 (and possibly Excel 2013 but I have not tested) has this capability built-in and the new method should always be preferred to the one that…
Dr James Bayley 