Andy Warburton

Sleep Deprived Geek in Blunderland

Archive for July, 2008

WordcampUK – day 1 finished! —

Well I don’t know about the other attendees but I’ve had a great day today! This afternoon we’ve had a great session on how blogging and journalism are colliding and a slightly over technical for my liking but still awesome session on using subversion with WordPress by Automattic staffer Sam Bauers. However, I really think [...]

More Wordcamp UK… —

Well we’re a couple of sessions in and I’ve learnt a lot! Just had a very interesting SEO talk from the guy at www.sepguy.com which has given me a really interesting insight from an SEO pro point of view. Just settling down for WordPress question time now… Should be fun!

Wordcamp UK 2008 —

Well here I am at wordcampuk! Just settling down for the first presentation. I’ve met some great guys already and learnt some new things about wordpress and that’s before it’s even started! I’m currently sat next to the guy from Automattic trying to drag some info about the new iPhone WordPress app but he’s keeping [...]

WordPress does a Twitter —

It seems that all of the clamouring for the latest version of WordPress has caused a few problems over at WordPress.org! I was just on the forum looking for some help with a little post upgrade problem when I saw the above (rather humorous) error message! I don’t think the site was down for more [...]

Thank God For Aksimet! —

I just upgraded my blog to use WordPress 2.6 – which, as always was a simple procedure. Today however, I also upgraded the Aksimet plugin using the automatic plugin upgrade feature recently introduced to WP. While the upgrade was being done, Aksimet was disabled for around 30 seconds – no big deal you may think. [...]

Asides… —

See that new column over on the right? Those are the ‘asides’. Basically, a collection of handy links that I’ve saved in my del.icio.us account, annotated with a thoughtful comment and tagged with a special keyword (namely ‘asides’) so that it appears here. Why? Well, I don’t get to blog as much as I like, [...]

Free Hi-Res Grunge Textures —

Hi World – I’ve just uploaded a bunch of photos of grunge textures that I took on my recent trip to florence. It’s such a great place to get these kinds of shots, I just couldn’t resist! It’s mostly bricks and plaster n stuff, but there may be something useful to someone. Get the grunge [...]