Author: simonwheatley
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I’m reading about… Product Managers
At WordPress.com VIP we're looking into more formal Product Management, to help ensure that all our teams are aligned behind a consistent vision and a clear set of priorities. As such, I've been reading around about the Product Manager role to understand best practices from other organisations and from leaders in the field. As one of…
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A Hot Toddy
Hot Toddy recipes anyone? Honey, lemon, and whisky seem a given. Cloves? Cinnamon stick? Star anise? Tea!? — Simon Wheatley ✊ (@simonwheatley) January 6, 2018 I went with 8 oz hot water, a twist of lemon, 2 cloves, juice of a lemon, a generous teaspoon of honey, a small stick of cinnamon, and 2 oz…
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Trump: The Presidential Precedents, Andrew Jackson
To the east coast establishment he was an uncouth demagogue, to his supporters [two term US president, Andrew Jackson] was the tribune of the people, the embodiment of white masculinity. – BBC Radio 4 – Trump: The Presidential Precedents, Andrew Jackson I know little about US history, but this short Radio 4 programme yesterday caught my…
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Political Scrapbooking
… the notion that large numbers of pro-Brexit voters are experiencing buyer’s remorse is both unproven and irrelevant. … And it is hard to avoid the feeling that much of the Remain camp disappointment comes from people who are simply not used to losing votes that might negatively affect their own lives. As Manchester Professor…
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Political Scrapbooking – Monday 04 and Tuesday 05 July 2016
What concerns me the most, as a historian, are the reports of UKIP party members now defecting and rejoined the Conservatives. This is not a good thing. This means those whose beliefs were considered too far right for mainstream politics, now feel mainstream politics has caught up – that they can rejoin a main political…
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Further Brexit scrapbooking
No one seems capable of stepping forward and offering reassurance. The Leavers, who disagreed on what Brexit should look like, do not think it is their responsibility to set out a path. They reckon that falls to Number 10 (where they have appeared in public, it has mostly been to discard the very pledges on…
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More Brexit scrapbooking
https://twitter.com/chrisapplegate/status/746705231602421760 https://twitter.com/jamesrbuk/status/746704964525899777 Police investigating after hateful notes were posted through letterboxes of Polish residents in Cambridgeshire following the Brexit vote. — LBC News (@LBCNews) June 25, 2016 “Suddenly [Cameron] found himself trapped by his own manifesto promises — promises made to placate the Euroskeptics in his own party and see off the threat posed to…
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Brexit scrapbooking
Some things I’ve found, which I want to refer back to… https://twitter.com/nicoleperlroth/status/746272418075807745 Lord Ashcroft’s survey on reasons for voting Leave or Remain Bim Adewunmi’s heartbreak over the result https://twitter.com/jimwaterson/status/746416907159363586 Woman on Radio 4 who voted Leave. "I'm pleased. Don't think it'll effect us cause we're elderly. For the young people I'm not sure." — Game…
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Example composer.json for SVN repos with no structure and no composer.json
Today I needed to include some WordPress.com themes from the official SVN repository, using Composer. This repository uses SVN and has not got the usual trunk, branches, etc directories that Composer expects, which makes it tricky. It’s possible though, and thanks to colleague Tom Nowell, I eventually got there. Here’s that example code: