Using PHP Traits in WordPress development
This article is going to discuss, in fairly high level terms, PHP Traits and how you can use them to help your wordpress development.
Exciting new vintage home movies site
This is a very short post just to publicise a new sister site to found-film which I’ve recently set up.
Ovation Applause AE-32 guitar refurbisment
A long time ago, probably sometime in the 1980s, I bought an Ovation Applause AE-32 steel strung, acoustic guitar. I remember buying this because I…
Pluggable USB microscope review
This is a look at a novel little device I bought a few days ago – a Pluggable USB microscope which allows you to view…
Misty photos
A couple of times over the last few days the weather has been misty when I’ve been out to take Freddy for his morning walk….
Docker compose to develop plugins – Part 2
In this, the second part of the series showing a docker compose based development environment for wordpress, we look the rest of the files in the system and the commands which are run to complete the install and configuration of the site.
Using Docker compose to develop plugins – Part 1
This article is the first in a series which will describe how to set up a development environment using docker compose to develop WordPress plugins.
Bosch EasyControl room stat and smart rad controllers
This post describes my experience of using the Bosch EasyControl smart room thermostat with smart radiator controllers. Although it will probably be of no interest…
Moving from Lightroom to ON1 Photo Raw
A couple of weeks ago I posted how I was trying out Alien Skin Software Exposure X4 as a possible replacement for Lightroom after I’d…
A quick look at Alien Skin Exposure X4
Earlier in the year I wrote a post about a software photo package called ON1 Raw because I was planning to cancel my subscription to…
Site Changes coming up to simon.hawketts.co.uk
I’m finding it difficult to get the time to post articles to this site at the moment because of other work and personal commitments. As…
