I spent the last weekend in Manchester at WordCamp UK and had a wonderful time! I went with my colleague Markus from Ponsi Interactive, who has now been officially initiated to the wonderful world of WordPress. The sessions over the two-day “informal gathering” included general stuff about using WordPress in different contexts, but also really interesting ones discussing more advanced topics such as BuddyPress theme & plugin development and testing strategies for WordPress. Continue reading
Wallace and Gromit mugs
My wife and I are big Wallace and Gromit fans. As it happens, we’ve also decided to watch all the FIFA World Cup games (I know, too much free time). This, of course, requires tea. So we ordered this lovely pair of mugs (from here), which are not entirely unlike the mugs used by W & G. Call us silly (you’d be correct), but isn’t this just about the coolest thing ever?
Humorous error messages
No-one likes it when software crashes, but funny error messages can make a world of difference between being really pissed off, or smiling so much that you feel compelled to write a positive blog post about it.
Attempting to log on to the WordPress localization service, I got this lovely error screen:
Hello HUB Tampere
I joined HUB Tampere today with a “Hub 5″ membership, and look forward to meeting interesting people and hopefully gaining cool business opportunities and perhaps other forms of collaboration too. Time will tell how it pays off! Continue reading
Flexible fluid layouts with CSS and jQuery (Part 2 in series)
This is a follow-up to last week’s post, Should we design for wider screens?. In this post I’ll demonstrate with a simple example how easy it is, with CSS and a bit of jQuery, to make layouts that adapt to the many different screen sizes out there.
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