web – Simon Wheatley

WordPress plugin development presentation

Jul 19, 2008

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My presentation for WordCamp UKÂ on WordPress Plugin Development (although I will update this soon with better slide notes):Â PDF version.

Daniel Morris: UK Teens & the Web at Barcamp Manchester

Mar 3, 2008

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simonwheatley

in Work

Dan Morris’ session on UK Teens & the Web was one of my favourites of the day, which you can see from my frantically scribbled notes (below). Dan’s working for a semi-autonomous BBC unit which produces online content for teenagers, and had some really interesting insights to share from his experience and some research they’d…

The Government double charges us for data

Mar 10, 2006

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simonwheatley

in Personal, Work

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!

Feb 23, 2006

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in Work

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 Â£199 setup, free for the first year, then Â£10/month thereafter.

Feeding WordPress

Jan 18, 2006

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simonwheatley

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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

Jan 14, 2006

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simonwheatley

in Personal, Work

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.