Honeymonster's Lair

Speed Daemon

Daniel Llewellyn — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:02:09 +0000

ThemeDeFrem

Daniel Llewellyn — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:28:52 +0000

So I finally got around to uploading a copy of ThemeDeFrem Wordpress theme for the world at large to play with. The source is all available at the github (http://github.com/diddledan/ThemeDeFrem). Fork away and enjoy. I will be adding customisable colour schemes and whatnot, too, in the future. Also on the cards is native support for [...]

PSD to HTML

Daniel Llewellyn — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:31:27 +0000

Image via Wikipedia I’ve now put the finishing touches on the first encarnation of my new site (on an old domain). This new site is for my own company called XYZ Network. Initial product offerings I’ll be providing via this site are Adobe Photoshop PSD to HTML conversion and Adobe Photoshop PSD to Wordpress Theme conversion. [...]

OSX86 Snow Leopard Hackintosh

Daniel Llewellyn — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:26:53 +0000

Image via Wikipedia As a much delayed followup to my post about getting OS X 10.5 Leopard running on a “Generic Beige-Box PC“, I have finally discovered how to install and run OS X 10.6 SNOW Leopard on the same system. The Mainboard is the MSI 975X Platinum PowerUp Edition, and I’ve got a Core2Duo E6600 [...]

Google Buzz

Daniel Llewellyn — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:50:22 +0000

Image via CrunchBase So Google have launched their new Social Networking site Buzz. And in doing so have opened up their users to privacy leaks, as reported by the BBC (http://bit.ly/a6I0uf). Google are taking the user’s (read: “privacy activists’”) views into account and have set up a war cabinet to get the privacy concerns ironed out [...]

iPWNed

Daniel Llewellyn — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:02:17 +0000

So I managed to turn my snazzy HTC Magic into something as useful as a brick, that can’t be used for building with. Hint, if you’re gonna flash a new SPL to your own rooted HTC Magic, then make sure it’s compatible because if you get the wrong file you’re screwed! Also make sure you’ve [...]

Back in time

Daniel Llewellyn — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:06:37 +0000

I’ve now reimplemented an older theme that I had archived. I feel that these dark nights require a dark theme. (Though the nights aren’t dark for those in the southern hemisphere, more’s the pity. I’m looking at you, Deadpan110! :-p) Plus, this theme has the nice snowy bottom, though I think it needs a bit [...]

Zemanta

Daniel Llewellyn — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:21:38 +0000

Zemanta is a fancy firefox plugin that enables you to scour the social web for any related articles and images which can be utilised to enhance a blog entry. Once installed, Zemanta will modify the layout of your blog’s add new post screen to give you more options. These options being relevant photos, related articles [...]

Fair-mindedness of Dell

Daniel Llewellyn — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:34:32 +0000

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/windows_or_ubuntu?c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&l=en&s=dhs You obviously choose Windows XP if you’re new to computers and do NOT WANT to learn new programs; you obviously choose ubuntu if you WANT to learn new programs for email and word processing. Ubuntu is for open source programmers only! Dell, we applaud you for your fair and even handed explanation that Linux is crap [...]

Story Writing

Daniel Llewellyn — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:52:48 +0000

So, I’ve got the urge to write a story. I haven’t got any inspiration though, so post your comments below for ideas that I can write about. I thought about maybe a story with psychiatric overtones/undertones and any other type of tones, as that would be something that I “know”. (They always say to budding [...]

mobile wordpress posting

Daniel Llewellyn — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:48:14 +0000

Wordpress goes mobile

inmates have no conscience..?

Daniel Llewellyn — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:31:48 +0000

who says? (link) httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmoyMD4td-g

htmlwrapper

Daniel Llewellyn — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:05:41 +0000

I’ve been looking for ages for a way of getting wordpress to work with Adobe’s flash technology, to create a more powerful and dynamic site. To this end I recently discovered htmlwrapper from Motion & Color. This unique project takes xhtml and renders it using the flash runtime. The advantage of this is that the [...]

Ouch!

Daniel Llewellyn — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:40:11 +0000

It’s friday, and I’m awake late into the night again; ho hum. But anyway, I was just wondering why anybody would want a Fleshlight “Succu Dry” male sex toy. Is it just me, or does the idea of putting your dinky winky someplace that has teeth kind of not sound very safe? I’m sure there [...]

Fotobook 3.1.7

Daniel Llewellyn — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:56:49 +0000

I’ve just added an update to my fotobook-thickbox patch and packages to bring the version numbers into parity with upsteam’s release. This new package/patch can be downloaded at my fotobook-thickbox page

theme problems

Daniel Llewellyn — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:51:47 +0000

I’ve just noticed some problems with the layout of my site in Apple’s Safari web browser. I’m working on fixing it, but am unsure what is actually wrong right now.

“Cut the president some slack”

Daniel Llewellyn — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:31:06 +0000

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO_QIMNRreg

Spanning Sync

Daniel Llewellyn — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:37:03 +0000

WOW, I’ve just discovered spanning sync: http://bit.ly/4crOLV. This nifty utility synchronises your google contacts and calendar with your mac’s addressbook and iCal with little-to-no fuss whatsoever. AND, once you’ve signed up you can refer friends to the service saving them 5$ like clicking on this link will do for you: http://spanningsync.com/?r=BS8JE6. A Bonus in the [...]

Google SideWiki

Daniel Llewellyn — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:07:59 +0000

Google Sidewiki: “Google Toolbar with Sidewiki is now installed in your browser” The latest Google toolbar has this feature called sidewiki. I’m not sure if I like the idea or not, but the basic premise is that any user can post a comment on any web-page even if that page doesn’t have any comment posting capability [...]

Chrome Frame and SVG

Daniel Llewellyn — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:21:15 +0000

This is a followup to my article on SVG. I was contacted in the comments of my SVG article by Brad Neuberg who suggested that I utilise SVGWeb to display my SVG files in IE. Well, I downloaded and started using it, but it appears that there is a slight bug in the handling of text-anchor:end [...]

StarTrek meets Monty Python

Daniel Llewellyn — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:06:48 +0000

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luVjkTEIoJc&feature=fvw

Translatoid

Daniel Llewellyn — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:31:55 +0000

I’ve just put in place a new tranlation widgit that seems better than all others by virtue of the fact that it translates the text of my site in-situ. This means that users aren’t forwarded to another server and placed in a framed view of my site, but instead stay viewing the same page without [...]

Tron 2.0

Daniel Llewellyn — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:48:42 +0000

This trailer leaves me physically excited!

POSIX kill and killall for Windows 7

Daniel Llewellyn — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:37:04 +0000

POSIX Under unix-like systems, the `kill` command along with `killall` are used regularly to stop a process and tell it to close down. Under these systems you can use `kill` and `killall` to send “signals” to any running process that you have permission to access (usually those which you run under your own login ID). A [...]

Scalable Vector Graphics

Daniel Llewellyn — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:03:58 +0000

I’ve been fiddling with my site design some more recently, and decided that I wanted a vertical banner on the left-hand side to advertise IND-Web.com’s Free Blogs and Hosting services. I figures that I’d only be able to manage this with an image, and set about creating said image in a drawing application. I then [...]

Photosynth

Daniel Llewellyn — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:14:40 +0000

OK, so some of you will hate me for posting these links to a Microsoft-run service, but the results are actually pretty impressive, even though I didn’t take enough photographs to be completely “100% Synthy”. The two synths are from my recent holiday to South Brittany in France. I kinda forgot about taking photos until the [...]

Googling one’s self

Daniel Llewellyn — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:19:11 +0000

Have you ever wondered how easy you are to find for people that know you? Well, a quick google for "Daniel Llewellyn" reveals that this very site is listed 7th. Also, a number of my other online profiles such as linkedin and plaxo are all listed on the first page, which means that people can [...]

Windows 7 RC

Daniel Llewellyn — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:31:52 +0000

Windows 7 was released as a public download on Monday. I downloaded yesterday, and am now testing on my tower system. A clean installation was a breeze and had finished within 30 to 45 minutes. This is much faster than a standard clean install of Vista. The user interface of Win7 hasn’t had much tweaking since [...]

Aptana Studio and GCJ

Daniel Llewellyn — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:33:47 +0000

Aptana Studio is a pretty darned impressive IDE for web-related development. I use it almost exclusively. The installation instructions on the download page make reference to 64bit users having to utilise the eclipse plugin version rather than standalone. The problems occur when you install Eclipse from the Ubuntu apt repositories. When you install Eclipse, via apt, [...]

Oracle, Sun, BSD, Solaris and Darwin (with a nod to OS X)

Daniel Llewellyn — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:07:54 +0000

In recent news: Sun Microsystems has been targeted for takeover by Oracle. The deal is expected to complete by the end of the summer. Oracle and Sun have both published an FAQ which I briefly looked over. The bit that caught my eye is the wording to the effect that "[Oracle] remains committed to Linux". Does [...]

Windows 7 & 8 Leaks; MSN Messenger

Daniel Llewellyn — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:15:44 +0000

Microsoft has un-officially announced a date for the "Release Candidate" version of Windows 7. Apparently the behemoth slipped when uploading new content to their partner program website which revealed the date. Microsoft has since amended the site to remove any mention of the release date. The Register reported, last month, that someone at Microsoft made another, [...]

Full Resolution Independence

Daniel Llewellyn — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:51:43 +0000

I’ve been playing with the CSS layout code of my site, and have now made the display capable of complete screen resolution independence down to screens running at 640×480. On another note I tried Qumana, my blog editor of choice, under ubuntu 9.04. However, it would seem that the application can’t spawn any new windows. This [...]

Twitter Worm Shenanigans

Daniel Llewellyn — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:22:29 +0000

Oh dear, it looks like another high profile hack has managed to get the perpetrator a job in the “security” field. Stupid thing is that he probably knows next to nothing about security. As reported by The Register: The self-confessed author of the recent Twitter worm has scored a potentially lucrative job doing security analysis and web [...]

BBC’s Botnet

Daniel Llewellyn — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:42:38 +0000

The BBC recently (14–16 March) repeatedly ran a show, 5 times in total, under the “click” banner on the BBC News channel highlighting the dangers of the so-called “botnet”. Excerpts from the show are here, here and finally here. What they did is paid some malware hackers for access to their botnet, and then recorded [...]

Adobe Contribute

Daniel Llewellyn — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:59:32 +0000

Well, would you believe that Adobe have created an application which will connect to your blog using the XMLRPC system of Wordpress? Nor did I, until I spotted a blog entry from someone using an earlier version. The entry itself just mentions the cryptic phrase: At the moment, I’m using Contribute, which seems to be the [...]

Printing CSS Pages

Daniel Llewellyn — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:19:08 +0000

I thought I’d post a revelation I’ve had while designing my brother’s site (as was briefly mentioned in my previous post). HTML and CSS based designs are actually more versatile than I originally thought. I’ve long been aware that you can use `media=”print”` and `media=”screen”` to separate out differing CSS rules for print media. However, [...]

Web Design Faux Pas

Daniel Llewellyn — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:18:06 +0000

I was reading through the Ten Most Violated Homepage Design Guidelines by Jakob Nielsen and one item struck my eyes as being important for the Wordpress designers, along with designers of other CMS systems such as Joomla!, to take stock of. Namely “10. Don’t include an active link to the homepage on the homepage”. It is [...]

Impressive use of RFID

Daniel Llewellyn — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:04:40 +0000

I was browsing through Engadget this evening, and this posting caught my eye. My parents have a cat, and I think this would be ideal for them. Not least because they also have stray foreign cats also coming in through the cat flap uninvited. Basically the premise is that the unit will only allow those cats [...]

Easter Cuteness

Daniel Llewellyn — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:11:04 +0000

My Nanna bought me an early easter egg over the weekend just gone. It was a Sainsbury £1 special KitKat Chunky doohicky. It’s packaging, though, is cute as! See the picture below: Ooh, I just noticed the evilness that is a dirty keyboard and apple mighty mouse it that picture.. ignore them please :-/ Tags: kitkat, [...]

Is Microsoft still playing games despite the AntiTrust lawsuit?

Daniel Llewellyn — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:42:29 +0000

It would seem that complaints are still coming in about supposed “anti-competitive behaviour” on Microsoft’s part. The latest allegations are in relation to their OEM Ready and Velocity marketing campaigns. As Steve Ballmer (MS’ CEO) stated in July as a foundation to the marketing campaigns: You can take the same laptop, oftentimes, and pre-configure it one way [...]

That age old problem of metric vs imperial…

Daniel Llewellyn — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:43:30 +0000

.. may have reared it’s head again as, over the weekend, a Thames Water “deep thrust borer” tunnelling machine managed to completely destroy a set of BT fibre-optic lines. The initial outage caused over 70,000 customers and businesses to be cut off, including telecoms & mobile cell-phone services along with broadband and dedicated line connections. (see: The [...]

Microsoft Committed To Open Source

Daniel Llewellyn — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 06:08:17 +0000

OK, put your teeth back in, and consider this. DoubleClick are serving up adverts on The Register ’s site, specifically on a Linux/IBM-related page, claiming the following: Microsoft - committed to open source...

Windows Live Writer

Daniel Llewellyn — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:18:55 +0000

As a followup to my post about getting BlogJet working under Crossover Mac (formally Crossover Office), I thought I’d post my thoughts on Windows Live Writer. A good friend of mine has informed me that he thinks Windows Live Writer is the “ultimate” blogging client. It supports many of the same features as BlogJet, which [...]

Twitter.. Flutter..

Daniel Llewellyn — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:01:51 +0000

… and Shttr? (is that last one ‘shitter’?) httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeLZCy-_m3s Direct Link to the video in case the embedding is still broken. The above video definitely does well at parodying the whole thing with Internet crazes. It seems that once one person comes up with a good idea suddenly everyone and his dog wants to get in on the [...]

How stupid can you get?

Daniel Llewellyn — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:18:50 +0000

A guy by the name of Roger Friedman, who writes an entertainment column for the Fox News web-site, has been "axed" ( Cover Awards Blog ). It's the circumstances that are a bit crazy, though. He review...

Testing BlogJet

Daniel Llewellyn — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:47:38 +0000

I have installed an interesting application – BlogJet. It’s a cool Windows client for my blog tool (as well as for other tools). Get your copy of BlogJet here: http://blogjet.com. Being a Windows-native application, and that I’m running on a Mac, I’ve installed it in Crossover Mac. The installation procedure for BlogJet in XOver is as follows: install [...]

Big Brother

Daniel Llewellyn — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:05:39 +0000

OK, I know I’ve been posting a slew of entries today (making up for a few days with no posts, I guess), but this one I felt had to be addressed. The government will, from the 6th of april, be monitoring every email and possibly instant message and chat communication by uk residents. Let me reiterate [...]

Porn for the win!

Daniel Llewellyn — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:59:01 +0000

It would appear that news has surfaced about the interior ministry of Great Britain, aka the Home Office. The news article I read states that The Home Office website was linking to a Japanese pornography site. Since being alerted in a round about way by a BBC viewer via the Broadcaster, the Home Office has [...]

Fitness

Daniel Llewellyn — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:31:43 +0000

I can definitely relate to what CuBeZeRo says in his blog entry "I’m so unfit": I was helping to move my sister into her new flat today, I had a look around and the place is really nice, only thing i do not envy is the 3 flights of stairs to get up there every time. [...]

First post using xmlrpc: “how I fixed a bug..”

Daniel Llewellyn — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:06:11 +0000

I’ve not posted in a couple of days, so I figure I should explain what I’ve been up to with IND-Web.com. While playing about with windows I had a little look at Windows Live Writer, a blog editing tool made by nasty Microsnot. What actually took me by surprise, is just how useful it is to [...]

File Extension IFO

Daniel Llewellyn — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:13:42 +0000

All links removed as per request from the File Extension IFO site owner. The blog entry will remain here minus the links. OK, so some of you might be wondering why I’m posting yet another File Extension related site (this one being File Extension IFO ). Well, truth be told, while the sites aren’t my own, [...]

comment spam

Daniel Llewellyn — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:19:04 +0000

It appears that a new probe is being used to gain credentials which will allow users to post comment spam to (possibly only wordpress?) blogs: I’ve had a spate, since last night, of comments which include random names and email addresses (all at yahoo.com) and the comment of “google http://google.com/ yahoo http://yahoo.com”. That’s it! Nothing [...]

Should Perl & PHP just curl up and die quietly?

Daniel Llewellyn — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:54:04 +0000

Perl6 has been in development for a few years now, and there seems to be no sign of a public release. While I understand that the Perl developers don’t want to force themselves into a fixed cycle it would be nice to know what the state of development is. PUGS has been available for some time, [...]

Fancy Pants!

Daniel Llewellyn — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:50:39 +0000

This is how my blog will appear in Safari and FireFox (I think version 3.0 and above of both browsers). Click the thumbnail below to see the image fullsize. (I’ve only taken a snapshot of the important parts, so you should be able to view the image even on small screens without too much scrolling [...]

Madonna

Daniel Llewellyn — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:06:25 +0000

…Need I say any more than that? It has emerged that she’s in the process of adopting another Malawian child. Reports from both the Malawi and US officials state that an adoption procedure has been entered into. It is already three years since she adopted 13-month old David Banda from the orphanage that his father, Yohane [...]

Controversy in the pits

Daniel Llewellyn — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:12:41 +0000

This year in the Formula1 world looks set to be a very controversial one from the outset. Three teams have thus-far come under criticism for flouting the new rules which are designed to limit downforce. Toyota, Williams and Brawn GP have all designed their cars in a clever fashion to increase the downforce generated by [...]

URL change

Daniel Llewellyn — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:51:39 +0000

just a quickie note while I write up my next entry: I’ve modified my wordpress database entries to force my site to appear at www .thehoneymonster.net , instead of just thehoneymonster.net. This change is primarily to make things more standard.

File Extension WPS

Daniel Llewellyn — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:25:53 +0000

The WPS file-extension is the supposed reason for the File Extension WPS website existing. However, this is just a blatant advert for the same Driver Detective software listed on sites I’ve also listed in previous posts. File Extension WPS does include quite alot of detail about the WPS file extension, however, and despite the advert, [...]

File Extension List .com

Daniel Llewellyn — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:08:50 +0000

The File Extension List website appears to be very similar to the page about the M4p file extension that I reviewed in a previous post. The main aim of this site is to advertise the Driver Detective software, which does a good job of determining which drivers are outdated on your windows system. While File Extension [...]

minor improvements

Daniel Llewellyn — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:48:17 +0000

I’ve made a few tweaks to my blog’s theme. The changes include: adverts in the header alternate between google and amazon, and disappear off the top of the screen as the user scrolls down, so as not to interfere with reading. adverts to the right of the sidebar, again so as not to interfere with reading or [...]

Eric S. Raymond’s Opinion on the GPL

Daniel Llewellyn — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:20:34 +0000

What he’s saying makes alot of sense, and personally I’m becoming more disillusioned as to the GPL vs other licenses such as the BSD. The BSD Unices have managed to get along just fine with large numbers of developers, despite their license allowing anyone to come along and take [...]

File Extension M4P .com

Daniel Llewellyn — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:27:52 +0000

The File Extension M4P website appears at first glance to be an informational site about the M4P multimedia container format which is slated to succeed the ubiquitous MP3. However, upon further investigation, the site is designed to get you to download their Driver Detective software. According the File Extension M4P site the software can diagnose and fix your [...]

Again and Again music video

Daniel Llewellyn — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:04:57 +0000

The music featured in this video is from the album ‘The Bird And The Bee‘.

Google FriendConnect Plugin

Daniel Llewellyn — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:15:19 +0000

I’ve just finished adding and testing a new social plugin for XYZ Network and IND-Web.com blogs. This plugin hooks into google’s platform using open standards-based mechanisms to allow a user to join a blog as a commentator and have their comments posted to a variety of other sites as they post them in reply to [...]

virtualbox beta issue

Daniel Llewellyn — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:22:47 +0000

http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=15626

how many council tenants are there?

Daniel Llewellyn — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:07:40 +0000

My council tax statement arrived this morning and with it was a little booklet which explains their figures. While leafing through this booklet one thing stood out: We get funding from: Housing benefit grant from the Government – 46% What this suggests to me, is that the same percentage (46) of homes in the “borough” are in fact [...]

WikiPedia knows all!!

Daniel Llewellyn — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:12:28 +0000

I think I’m a slacker…

Daniel Llewellyn — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:10:29 +0000

New Japanese Supermodel

Daniel Llewellyn — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:27:37 +0000

Is it me, or does she look “hot”? Maybe I’m addicted to computers too much that I’m starting to find them sexy?! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/fashionnews/5000769/Japanese-catwalk-robot-unveiled.html

ajax disabled for the time being

Daniel Llewellyn — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:46:38 +0000

I’ve decided to disable my ajaxblog addon, as I like to use google analytics to track what type of content is popular so that I can concentrate more on that kind of content in the future. Now, I have added google analytics code into ajaxblog but it seems that I’ve either mis-implemented it, or I [...]

Lewis Hamilton at the Radio Controlled GP.

Daniel Llewellyn — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:24:37 +0000

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiLoANg6nNY

More AJAXy Goodness

Daniel Llewellyn — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:18:57 +0000

just a quicky note: ajax has been reenabled on my blog. I still need to fix thickbox embedded images.

Amazon MP3 Store

Daniel Llewellyn — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:30:37 +0000

I have tested out the amazon mp3store over the christmas period. I managed to download an entire album from the TingTings for free in amazon’s christmas day/boxing day special offer. I was so impressed with the process, and the recommendation of a good friend, that I will be very likely to use the service in [...]

Channel Hopping Drugs Rant

Daniel Llewellyn — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:07:34 +0000

This is a collection of random thoughts as I tried to get to grips with what I hated about the subject in hand: – While trialing out my new media centre setup (more on that in another post in a day or so), I was channel hopping and ended up on Sky1 with some documentary about a [...]

Fotobook+Thickbox

Daniel Llewellyn — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:54:09 +0000

another post about my dabblings with fotobook, this time to announce my publishing of a patch which adds thickbox support to fotobook 3.1.5.

WordFotobook

Daniel Llewellyn — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 01:52:34 +0000

See the page of the same name for the latest download: WordFotobook. Basically, I’ve made minor modifications to the Wordbook and Fotobook plugins to wordpress. These mods allow both plugins to operate simultaneously by virtue of their sharing of the Facebook library in a common location, rather than (as shipped) using their own internal versions [...]

My Blog has Moved

Daniel Llewellyn — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:58:49 +0000

As part of my ongoing efforts to improve my blog site; I have moved from hosting it myself on a system at home to having it hosted by XYZ Internet (my own entity) on a premium hosting package, and now it is hosted for FREE by the combined might of IND-Web.com and XYZ Internet using [...]

wp-cron

Daniel Llewellyn — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:08:11 +0000

Martin of our sister company has written a nice howto for setting up wordpress cron jobs to run properly when using services similar to our own, which prevent loopback access to the same machine. The way that wordpress usually runs, is that when a user clicks onto your site after the scheduled time for cron [...]

that thar welcome page

Daniel Llewellyn — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 05:00:31 +0000

as a follow up to the bendy corners post the other day, I thought I should explain how I got my theme to display my welcome page on the main blog listing. Well, it’s actually quite simple, and requires the index.php of your theme to be modified with the following: <?php $welcome = get_page_by_title('Welcome'); ?> <?php if [...]

Bendy Corners

Daniel Llewellyn — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:44:15 +0000

Ooh, Ahh, Just a little bit. ooh, aah, a little bit more! </singing Gina-G> So I wanted that little bit more eye-candy on my site. To fix this, I made a very minor tweak to my CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) code – CSS is what changes web page code into something visually appealing. The change makes use of a [...]

QDos – New boy on the block

Daniel Llewellyn — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:49:15 +0000

It looks like there’s a new social network emerging. This one is different, though, in that rather than you putting content onto their system, they trawl the internet looking for references to yourself or your email address. You can also provide hints as to where you hang out, e.g. your facebook/myspace/linkedin profile pages, your homepage [...]

Speak like a pirate day

Daniel Llewellyn — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:45:51 +0000

With international “speak like a pirate day” dawning on the 19th of september, I thought I’d republish some content to help those that don’t think they’d be able to pull it off without a guiding hand: How to Talk Like a Pirate from wikiHow – The How to Manual That You Can Edit Talk Like A Pirate Day [...]

joomla

Daniel Llewellyn — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:47:40 +0000

after a brief foray into the world of joomla!, I have decided that I like wordpress much better for bloggy-type stuffs, and possibly for other less bloggy-type situations. Comments are included in wordpress as standard, whereas I needed to add them to joomla!. Joomla defaulted to a weird layout that I couldn’t work out how [...]

AJAX Blog

Daniel Llewellyn — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:05:47 +0000

The observant amongst you may have noticed a new page appear in the navigation, or that the bar down the right hand side of each page within this site has disappeared. Well, the sidebar is still there, just hidden. To get at all the functionality of the sidebar, one just needs to click the little [...]

Review: Sony Ericsson K770i

Daniel Llewellyn — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:32:20 +0000

So, I decided to get mobile broadband on a whim for my holiday (I’m writing this on the broadband connection. Because I wanted it for the holiday, and I only decided the day before we left, I went into town to the 3 store to see what they had. It turns out that they had [...]

framed blog update

Daniel Llewellyn — Mon, 12 May 2008 21:06:05 +0000

I’ve just uploaded an update to my framedblog plugin for wordpress. You can find information about it on the framedblog page by clicking the link on the right-hand navigation column of this site. Of note, and the reason for the update, is that back and forward buttons and editing of the address bar in-situ. are [...]

Quotey Goodness

Daniel Llewellyn — Sun, 11 May 2008 22:24:56 +0000

“I have a bad feeling about this” Princess Leia Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back “I have a bad feeling about this” C-3PO Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi “I have a bad feeling about this” Obi-Wan Kenobi Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace “I have a really bad feeling about this” Han Solo Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi “I have a very [...]

I ROCK!!

Daniel Llewellyn — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:07:28 +0000

77% Geek77%

oops

Daniel Llewellyn — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:59:54 +0000

ok, so in upgrading my version of wordpress to the latest RC of 2.5, I managed to wipe out all my plugins and theme.. So that is the reason things look somewhat different atm.

FramedBlog

Daniel Llewellyn — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:07:35 +0000

As a precursor to the return of a music player for my blog, like that of CuBeZeRo’s site (www.nweightman.co.uk), I have inserted a frameset so that I can have the player permanently at the top of the window while the user is navigating the site. This allows me to use the streaming mp3 technology of [...]

OC Development Infrastructure

Daniel Llewellyn — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:55:25 +0000

In the linked post, I discuss the infrastructure that I’ve put in place to aid the development of the Occasionwise facebook application. The infrastructure can also be turned to _any_ web development needs. It keeps multiple developers happy with version control while also maintaining a live website for them to check their changes as they’re [...]

does ubuntu really exist?

Daniel Llewellyn — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:14:40 +0000

… well not according to microsoft, it would seem. http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=ubuntu+imac+24inch+2007&form=QBRE vs http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=imac+24inch+2007+ubuntu So the question raises itself, are microsoft actively removing the ubuntu forums from their search results?

ezCache

Daniel Llewellyn — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:26:38 +0000

After spending a while looking into caching methods on WordPress, Deadpan110 and I have started work on a way to reduce database server load. Most caching methods for WordPress involve creating static (Wp-Cache) or semi-static (Staticize Reloaded) pages and these are very good at reducing web and database load but are very quirky on sites with [...]

Christmas Dinner

Daniel Llewellyn — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 20:12:39 +0000

For anyone who didn’t get a turkey roast dinner for christmas day, find below some that I saved for you: 110

Spinnaker Tower Collapses

Daniel Llewellyn — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:23:18 +0000

News just in, the Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth has collapsed!! OK, so it’s a fake, but it’s pretty impressive use of computer software to generate such a convincing rendition. This was done for someone’s Degree course at Southampton University.

Science Museum

Daniel Llewellyn — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 22:26:05 +0000

So, week before last my parents and myself went up to visit my sister in London. She is getting married sometime next year (I’m unsure as to whether the date has been set yet or not), and wanted to take my mum wedding-dress shopping. Seeing as dress shopping is an inherently feminine past-time, my dad [...]

Flash music player

Daniel Llewellyn — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:58:04 +0000

You should have noticed a flash-based music player in the top left of your browser window when viewing this site. I’ve been rather clever with this, in that it will remember where the music had got up to when pausing and resuming playback. Also of note, is that if you click the pause button a [...]

Rolling Stones song

Daniel Llewellyn — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:56:03 +0000

I see an iMac and I want it painted black, No colours anymore I want them to turn black. It’s not a real computer, you have to face the facts. When you’re on a Macintosh, your soul has turned to black.

PHP and the isset() function

Daniel Llewellyn — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:49:34 +0000

It has been common usage to utilise the isset() function to determine if a variable in PHP has a value. This is as opposed to checking the contents are not NULL or the empty string: “”. I had utilised this facility thoroughly in the CRIMP code-base (available on source-forge under the same name), and was [...]

Hackintosh

Daniel Llewellyn — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:47:03 +0000

Wowzers! After I had my mac mini arrive just two weeks ago, I’ve been impressed no-end by the OSX operating system. So much so that, now that I’m sending my mac mini back for an upgrade under the 14-day remorse period (they upgraded the mac mini line on Tuesday to a much more advanced unit), and [...]