As an entrepreneur, small business owner or freelancer, one of the most important skills you need to have, after being amazing at what you do, is digital marketing. The biggest learning curve I had as a developer was when I launched my Jiu Jitsu school. I soon learned that ‘If you build it, they don’t… Continue reading Digital Marketing Workshop
Word Camp Cape Town 2015
So this year I was fortunate enough to attend my first Word Camp. I’ve been meddling (at best) with WordPress for the better part of the last decade, I’ve set up a few blogs and sites and even completed some custom development using WordPress as the base but I’ve never been someone who was ‘focused’… Continue reading Word Camp Cape Town 2015
Stopping unresponsive programs in Ubuntu
This is a simple problem, with a simple solution. Which I will forget. Hence the post. The following command will list all running applications on a Linux system. The first two columns are the user running the application, and the applications program id or “pid”. Example output However, it would be ideal to search for… Continue reading Stopping unresponsive programs in Ubuntu
Tis the season…..
Its that time of year again, where we look forward to family gathering, presents and stuffing our faces with copious amounts of food. In the meantime, we have the PHP Advent Calendar, to count down the days to Christmas and learn some new PHP goodies for the new year.
Mozilla Add-ons you can't live without.
As a PHP developer there are a hoard of Mozilla Firefox add-ons that will not only make your life easier, but will make you a better developer. These are the list of add-ons that are installed by default in my Firefox Browser. Firebug – absolutely the best way to debug javascript (and therefore also ajax)… Continue reading Mozilla Add-ons you can't live without.
Easy CakePHP in Ubuntu
I’ve always setup a new CakePHP project by extracting the current stable build into a project directory and editing the core.php and database.php files manually. I usually then change to the /cake/console directory of the project and run php cake.php bake (having already installed the php-cli) to bake my code. I know there are other… Continue reading Easy CakePHP in Ubuntu
PHP Advent 2009
I had no idea something like this existed but what a great idea. 24 days of worth of PHP articles to keep the Christmas Blues away. Today’s article is something very close to my heart and discusses the topic of Comprehensible Code. Go, read, expand your minds….
Ambit Recruitment website goes live
Personal experience will always advise our actions. So, the objective is to ensure positive experiences are repeated as often as possible, to encourage further positive outcomes. That’s the simple premise on which Ambit Recruitment operates the business of fitting the right people into the right positions. The Ambit Recruitment website is a bit of a… Continue reading Ambit Recruitment website goes live
South African HTML image map
I recently had to create an image map of South Africa, displaying each of the provinces with links to content for each province. As it took me most of the day to complete I thought it might be handy for someone else too. So in true open source fashion here it is for you to… Continue reading South African HTML image map
Migrating from Drupal to WordPress
Well, it finally happened. After months of…