Exclude Pages (my WordPress plugin which allows you to remove pages from site navigation) now handles child pages more gracefully. Previously, when you excluded a page any child page would drop down a level, taking it’s place… not what I wanted, and not something I’d noticed because I was only dealing with single level navigation when I wrote the plugin. Continue reading “Exclude Pages now hides child pages where appropriate”
BarCamp Leeds 2007 – a round up
So a quick round up of my first BarCamp experience at BarCamp Leeds: brilliant.
Tom Smith: Things you don’t know, but might, at BarCamp Leeds 2007
Tom Smith, of Everything Ability, gave an entertaining & refreshing talk for the last of my BarCamp Leeds sessions. A wonderful roll call, reminder and rallying cry for what he felt were great but neglected ideas things.
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Simon Wheatley: Introduction to WordPress at BarCamp Leeds 2007
My session for BarCamp Leeds was on “An Introduction to WordPress”, and I put together a nice graphical presentation for it… only to find the laptop playing up and unable to connect to the screen!
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Ignoring visits by IP address in Mint
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 ignore visits from the site owner. Surely there was a way of ignoring by IP address? Of course there is, ignore by IP is in the advanced preferences. But where are the advanced preferences? I couldn’t find any link or button to reach them but following the instructions in the link above, I clicked on “preferences” and then pasted “&advanced” onto the end of the URL.
Mark Rushworth & Dominic Hodgson: SEO Clinic at BarCamp Leeds 2007
Around the campfires late at night, old Leeds GeekUppers tell tales of the legendary SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) clash of Hodgson and Rushworth at a Leeds GeekUp many moons ago. Apparently Hodgson is (I’m hoping someone can fill me in). Apparently Rushworth is (not sure, I wasn’t there). Anyway, it was heated, let’s just leave it there. At BarCamp Leeds 2007 a gauntlet slapped down on the York stone steps and was accepted, scores were to be settled, the stage was set.
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Mark Sailes: TV 3.0 at BarCamp Leeds 2007
For me, BarCamp Leeds started with Mark Sailes‘ session on TV 3.0. Mark’s session was one of my favourite sessions of the day and centred on his contention that TV needs to enter a third phase (1st phase: black & white, 2nd phase: colour). TV 3.0 is all about audience participation and analysis (this linked in with one of Tom Smith‘s irritations from his talk, that viewers can’t own and tailor their TV programming), resulting in rich metadata around programmes and films. Mark suggested one mechanism could be a collaborative highlighting and commenting method for working playing with video streams, some mechanism like Flickr Notes to add comments, a way to tag themes like “lightsaber fight!”, “Vader”. You would then be able to choose different ways of consuming the content, “I want to watch all the light saber fights involving Vader” (Mark’s a Star Wars fan).
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Setting SVN:Ignore on the command line
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 have it all yet… still, good effort guys, thanks.
One function missing from SCPlugin, and from the Subversion bundle on Textmate, is the ability to easily set the SVN:Ignore property. Setting SVN:Ignore on a file or directory means that SVN will never bother you with trying to add or commit it. I’m always heading for the command line, then getting confused and failing to remember how to do the business… so for my benefit here it is (and embarassingly for my memory it’s actually quite easy):
Configuring Apple OS X to use a Nokia 6300 as a bluetooth modem
With a lot of help with Ross Barkman‘s handy modem scripts, I’ve managed to create a bluetooth modem connection with my Nokia 6300 on (UK) Orange. On the off chance that this is useful to someone else, here’s what I did…
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BarCamp Leeds
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
- Startershop or ecommerce
Lots of thinking and then planning to do…
Update: or split testing…