Memories of Marconi Instruments
This is an introductory post to some reminiscences of my time at Marconi Instruments in St Albans, Stevenage and Luton. I will probably follow up…
Favourite Pictures – Emma in Knebworth park
This is a picture which I took several years ago when my daughter Emma was only a small child and we took a family trip…
Ricoh GXR Leica A12 Macro pictures
Today I want out with my Ricoh GXR Leica A12 camera, fitted with a Tamron 90mm Macro lens, to take some macro photos on a…
Freddy in a corn field
Today, my son James took our 10 month old puppy Freddy for a walk over the fields and took a picture of him on his…
Learn the basics of Vim
Quite often there are times when you need to edit some files on a remote server and you find that your normal editor isn’t installed…
The River Avon at Stratford-on-Avon
This is a picture of the River Avon in the town of Stratford-on-Avon, which I took quite a while ago when we were on holiday…
Problems when compiling PHP Extensions with Pecl
This is just a very short post to offer some advice to any developers who are adding PHP extensions to their wordpress environment using the…
Favourite pictures – my Daughter Emma
The picture below is another of my favourite pictures which I’ve not published on this site before. It’s a picture of my daughter which I…
Using Filters in WordPress
Filters in WordPress are one of the mechanisms which allows the WordPress core system to call and run new code written after the core was…
Lemonade bottle after a shower
I’m continuing my archiving of photos to recover disk space, and I came upon this picture of a lemonade bottle sitting on a table which…
Creating shortcodes in WordPress.
This post is going to show how to create a Shortcode in WordPress. Introduction to Shortcodes Shortcodes in WordPress are a mechanism used to embed…