Simon Wheatley

Category: Work

  • Ignoring visits by IP address in Mint

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    I use Mint to track the visits to this website (Hi everyone who’s come to look at the Dress a Doll pages!) and it’s a great stats package. One of the issues I’ve had recently is that I constantly delete my cookies in my day to day web development. Unfortunately Mint uses a cookie to…

  • Setting SVN:Ignore on the command line

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    One of the (only) things I miss in my move to the Mac is TortoiseSVN, a really nice Subversion client which integrates with the Windows shell giving you all the Subversion commands on a right click context menu. SCPlugin for OS X is coming along, and what they have is very nice, but they don’t…

  • BarCamp Leeds

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    Very excited to be signed up for my first BarCamp, and the first BarCamp Leeds ever. Big thanks to Deb, Imran Ali, Tom Scott & Dominic Hodgson for organising this. Now I’ve just got to work out what to talk about, ideas so far: WordPress as a CMS Events searches for Children & the Arts…

  • Exporting from MySQL to CSV

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    Everytime I need to do this I go into at least five minutes of Googling for a decent solution. The problem is that a lot of people don’t have access to the commandline, so the solutions all reference PHPMyAdmin which is, you know, OK, but I don’t use it or want to install it just…

  • Staggering onwards is not good

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    For animals, pain is a signal that something is wrong and it needs fixing. If pain didn’t exist we’d all be accidentally leaving our hand on the burning gas hob, or on the electric bar fire and wondering about the burning smell long after we’d been injured. We want to know when something isn’t right,…

  • Directories

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    Just put up an article over at Startershop on getting your business listed online and off. I hope it’s useful.

  • The Government double charges us for data

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    I’ve just felt sufficiently exercised to write to my MP, about the UK government charging for information they’ve collected with our (the UK taxpayers) money. For example, I’m doing a location based events search for Arts & Kids. The data underpinning this has been collected by OS and the Royal Mail, using tax payers money,…

  • Startershop is out!

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    We’ve just launched our new ecommerce product, Startershop. As it says on the tin: Startershop is an easy to use, no-nonsense ecommerce solution for just £199 setup, free for the first year, then £10/month thereafter.

  • Feeding WordPress

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    The first round of enhancing the site is complete: my Last.FM journal articles and del.icio.us bookmarks are now republished here.

  • Aha

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    Finally I get around to updating my site to use something more sophisticated than hand written HTML. It’s a start. Things that were on the left are (probably) on the right now. Oh, apart from Dress-a-Doll which gets it’s own link above.