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WordPress 3.0.1 not publishing scheduled posts

Back in May I published a post about WordPress 2.9 not publishing scheduled posts. Recently I did an automatic update to WordPress 3.0.1 … and guess what: scheduled posting has been broken once again. I’ll try the method I used … Continue reading

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Are we ready for the mobile Web?

Mike Nolan at IWMW10 from UKOLN on Vimeo. IWMW and mobile During the last couple of days I’ve been attending the IWMW 2010 conference at the University of Sheffield.  With a larger Web team at St Andrews I now get … Continue reading

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WordPress 2.9 not publishing scheduled posts

On Tuesday night I scheduled a post to publish at 08:30 on Wednesday morning. It didn’t happen. Did it have a broken clock, or something? So I tried to reschedule it. That would surely wor… No! That didn’t work either. … Continue reading

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Agile planning poker

For a few months we’ve been starting to use Agile, and specifically Scrum, methods in planning and managing our Web projects at work. This week we adopted a new practice: planning poker. Like many teams starting out with Agile practices … Continue reading

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Extending colborder in Blueprint CSS

For the last few months, when time has allowed, I’ve been working on a new CSS framework combining my favourite elements from Blueprint CSS framework and 960 Grid System but this week I ran into a problem. I’m developing the … Continue reading

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WordPress upgrade: filling in the missing pieces

Well, where to start? I’ve been meaning to blog about life for ages but since Reuben and Joshua were born in November 2008 other things took more of a priority.  Things like attending to twin boys, eating, getting enough sleep, … Continue reading

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Golf Sale

A really touching short film (4 minutes 56 seconds) about a fella who holds a golf sale sign on London’s busy Oxford Street. According to London’s Time Out magazine: The ‘Golf Sale’ board guys, however, are already starting to disappear … Continue reading

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