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Hi, I'm Gareth J M Saunders, 38 years old, 6' 4", married to Jane, father of twins (with another on the way), I'm a priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church and have a passion for Mah Jong, Psion PDAs and web design.
I am employed as the Assistant Information Architect / Web Manager at the University of St Andrews.
My main interests are HTML, CSS (inc. frameworks), jQuery, Information Architecture and Agile development.
Twitter @garethjms- My @AmazonKindle is perfect for reading the latest edition of the free PDF Productive! magazine from @MichaelNozbe
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Category Archives: Web
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
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
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
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
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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Tagged 960.gs, Blueprint, code, CSS, framework, grid, HTML, open source, trouble-shooting, updated, Web
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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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Tagged CSS, framework, GTD, Heart Internet, productivity, Take Back Your Life, Web, Web server, WordPress
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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