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Being a football fan I do know who Clarke Carlisle is, and I already knew little pieces of his story. Chairman of the PFA, the Premier League footballer who appeared on Countdown and supporter of anti-racism in football campaigns.
I was also aware that he is possibly the only modern day footballer to speak so openly about suffering from depression. Continue reading “Reading List // You Don’t Know Me But – Clarke Carlisle”
On Wednesday night I went back to my old University for the first time in nearly 10 years to attend the inaugural lecture by the current chancellor, Katherine Grainger.
The topic, Confidence, and more specifically whether it is born, bred or bluffed, is something that is of great interest of me. And relates closely to some of the books i’ve read of late.
And who better to give a talk on confidence, than Britain’s most decorated female Olympian. Continue reading “Lecture // Katherine Grainger – is confidence born, bred or bluffed?”
I recently decided to take a break from social media.
It was a Friday, I was feeling quite down and isolated, and I knew if I were to spend the upcoming weekend watching other people enjoying their ‘much better, more interesting lives’ online, then I was just going make myself feel worse.
So I logged out. From Facebook, from Instagram, from Snapchat.
And it’s a good job I actually logged out, because my resolution to stay off social media wasn’t enough. Continue reading “Having A Social Media Detox”
I’ve been attending Render Conference since it’s first run out as JQuery Conference back in 2012.
It always has a great range of speakers and topics, and is brilliantly organised and run. Plus, it’s a chance to get my geek on with a whole load of other developers just down the road in Oxford, what’s not to love.
I always come away feeling inspired to try something new, or look at a different technique that might be an improvement on the way I have previously implemented a solution.
This year was no different. Continue reading “Render Conference 2017”
A nice sunny day out at Wembley this weekend for the Checkatrade Cup Final between Coventry City and Oxford United.
Not the result we wanted, but a few photos from the day.
Continue reading “Photography // Checkatrade Cup Final 2017”
Had an error in from a website where the admin couldn’t gain access to edit registrations in WordPress backend. Receiving the following “you are not allowed access” error:
On closer inspection to the code it appeared in trying to hide the ‘Add New’ option for the post type from the admin menu, the developer had inadvertently removed access to the registration form page. Continue reading “Developer // Removing Sub Page Menu Item In WordPress Whilst Still Allowing Page Access”
I added ‘The Last Act of Love’ to my reading list after seeing it mentioned on a few different end of 2016 “Best Books” lists, and when it came up as deal of the day on Audible I snapped it up.
‘The Last Act of Love: The Story of My Brother and His Sister’ is author Cathy Rentzenbrink’s heartfelt account of the aftermath of the life changing moment her brother Matty was knocked down, aged 16, walking home from a night out. He suffered a huge head injury and was left in a persistant vegetive state (PVS). Continue reading “Reading List // The Last Act of Love – Cathy Rentzenbrink”
Had a request from a client to add categories and tags to their resources custom post type in WordPress.
Obviously I assumed there were predefined WP functions to implement this, but I found it hard to pin down a complete solution, so thought I would share mine here. Continue reading “Developer // Adding Categories and Tags Functionality To WordPress Custom Post Types”
After being told that emails sent from a client’s Wordpress site had suddenly started getting rejected I immediately assumed an SPF problem.
But when investigating the headers it became apparent that the return-path header getting set didn’t match what was being sent out. Continue reading “Developer // WordPress Mail Overwriting Return-Path Header”
Walking along the Southbank last Sunday and spent a few minutes getting some shots of the lads at the skate park.
