A Quick Update
This past week or so I've been a busy bee re-writing the CSS for this blog. That might sound like an odd thing to do, but it had become unmanageable and was slowing me down. So this is a quick heads up, if you spot any bugs…
Spotlight: Wordpress Pods Plugin
Please Note: This article was written about Pods CMS version 1.6.6 and you'll find some of the bugs and issues mentioned are now resolved. Have you ever needed to build a website which fit into the "Posts & Page" paradigm of Wordpress 95%, but…
Magic Kingdom Font - Space Encounter
This is a pretty silly & out of the norm post for me, but what the hell! Whilst in Stitch's Great Escape @ Disneyland last month I was enthralled by the use of a clever font so that it looked like all the signs were written in an alien…
Wordpress 2.8
Over the weekend I updated my blog to Wordpress 2.8 [http://wordpress.org/development/2009/06/wordpress-28/]. It's been a relatively smooth process complete screw-up (see my comment at the bottom) although I lost my archive and recent post widgets as I had hacked them…
Snippet: Symfony Forms - Definition List Form Formatter
Back in April I posted a Snippet on Symfony Form Formatters [http://erisds.co.uk/symfony/snippet-symfony-forms-setting-the-form-formatter]. Since then I've done a bit more work with them and thought I'd share my custom form formatter for displaying forms as definition…
2009 Review and Aims
At the beginning of 2009 I had been in my first full time job for 2 months, had graduated from my Masters degree less than a month ago and had lived in my newly purchased home for just over a week. With so much going on I didn't…
Our Day at Discovery Cove
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/erisds/3513672247/]I don't want to bore folk with the tiniest detail of my holiday, but today merits a blog post of its own. If you have ever looked at visiting Discovery Cove and thought the price was over-the-top, take it…
A long way from Home!
We're at the end of our tenth day in Florida, halfway through our holiday. It seems we picked the absolutely perfect time of year to come - not only is the the weather glorious (it's very hot but mostly bearable), but the place is practically deserted. Who…