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November 2008

WordPress 2.7 Release News and Links

WordPress just seems to get better and better, when will it stop?! Lorelle has done a beautiful job of summarising all of the exciting new features and has compiled a great set of useful links for the immanent release of WP 2.7.

Write off that first hour

Are you guilty of spending the first portion of your day catching up on your RSS feeds, finding new techniques and commenting on blog posts? Elliot Jay Stocks explains that this is actually not a bad idea, and can actually increase your productivity.

10 Biggest Milestones in Web Development

Net-tuts shoots and scores yet again with this interesting article about the biggest moments in history which have influenced the internet. It covers everything from Amazon to Linux, PHP to CSS. Great read!

More on developing naming conventions, Microformats and HTML5

A very informative article by the legend that is Andy Clarke about Microformats, HTML5, their uses and how we can develop for them now

Google’s Search engine optimisation starter guide (PDF)

Google’s guide to search engine optimisation. It’s the classic faultless and well-written google style document, so is a little patronising and simple at the beginning. But it is the starter guide, so I can’t even fault it there.

Build your profile to get more freelance work

After Elliot Jay Stocks decided to go it alone earlier this year, he looks back on his experiences and gives some useful advice to the would-be freelancer.

Create cool slidy drawers with jQuery

In this tutorial, I will show you how to make cool sliding content using jQuery. And the best part is that if javascript is disabled, the content will still display very nicely.

Using ems to Specify px Text Sizes in CSS

We all know that internet explorer is the runt of the browsers. In yet another rebellion, it simply refuses to scale elements which have been specified using pixels. In this tutorial I will show you how to think in pixels but work with ems.

Seperating HTML, CSS and Javascript – unobtrusive javascript

So with all of this web 2.0 hype you want to add in loads of cool CSS behaviours, javascript wotsits and AJAX wangdoodles to your website. But then you’re told that you have to keep the (X)HTML clean. ‘What the?!!’ you may ask. Read on to find out how the voodoo is done.

Number to words function in PHP

You know those ‘I have nothing to do this-afternoon so I want to waste some time making something utterly pointless’ moments? Well I get them too. Fortunately however, it turns out that my moment of inspiration led to a very useful script to turn ’123′ into ‘One hundred and twenty three’. Bargain!

Me on the intertubes

It wouldn't be right to have a web site, be a nerd, and not take this opportunity for a bit of shameless pluggery.

If you like all these weird and magic internet page things, you should try Coaster Nerd, Oxford Bloggers or, if you'd really like some unexplainable sourcery, is it the weekend yet.

Also you should follow me on Twitter ;)

Where to find me

I can be found fairly regularly at Oxford Geek Nights, OxTuttle and other general nerding out activities in and around Oxford.

I am also often found in my natural habitat which is anywhere that you can find an adreneline machine. I frequent English theme parks more often than is healthy, and take trips abroad to sample foreign rides.

From the aviary

Was having a decidedly crap day of development. Just got much better. It's nice when things go your way. #win 1 day ago

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These posts were written at the time of writing and may not still be accurate or reflect my opinions any more. In fact, they may not even be correct or representative at the time of writing. You see, when I write, I just write. I don't do that thing which they always told you to do at school and plan what you want to write first. Because of this, there will almost certainly be a load of typos, grammar errors and incorrect facts and references. If this makes you feel queasy, I apologise that you had to get to the bottom of the page to read this, and hope that some day, you'll learn to forgive me.

What's this site?

Slightlymore started off all too formally for my liking. In the depths of the archives, you'll find tutorials. However if you read the more recent posts, you'll find them a lot more playful and about fun and interesting stuff.

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