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I’m a curious, tinkering, cooking, software product manager and leader from Manchester in the UK. I’ve worked solo, founded companies, tried, failed, succeeded, built products, solved problems, led teams, been acquired, and had a lot of fun.
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Today I found myself wanting to use a query similar to SELECT DISTINCT post_id FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE meta_key IN ( ‘string_x’, ‘string_y’, ‘string_z’ ), but where I needed to construct the values for the list of strings from an array…
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Dragging, dropping and sorting, with jQuery UI
I spy a nice opportunity to document some jQuery UI functionality I’ve been playing with this afternoon, for a soon-to-be-revealed client project. The project needs photo galleries, and as these need to be tied into the other custom post types…
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Laying out a grid in WordPress
For a recent project, I needed to lay items out in a series of grids, sometimes three columns, sometimes more. The CSS provided by the designer looked something like this: I could have used jQuery, or some of the more…
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Handy sendmail debugging commands
Some sendmail commands I’ve just found useful, but couldn’t locate on Google. Get the current status of a message in the queue: grep ‘james@example.com’ /var/log/maillog Get the headers for an email: cat /var/spool/mqueue/qf[message ID] Get the body of an email: cat…
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