My Courses

  • How to Restart Plesk

    Log on through telnet and run the following command. /etc/init.d/psa restart Done  

  • WooCommerce Gift Cards – Admin Screens

    UPDATE: PLEASE READ THIS POST So now that I have the plugin template structure in place I need to look at creating the admin menu section. I have chosen to go for a dedicated menu section rather than a sub menu under the settings. This will ensure we can clearly distinguish between the Gift Cards, Products……

  • WooCommerce Gift Cards – Plugin Template

    UPDATE: PLEASE READ THIS POST So to get things started I have created a new plugin template which to start with doesn’t include much except the base files and information needed for WordPress to identify it as a plug in. In the “wp-content/plugins” folder I create a new folder called “pux-woocommerce-gift-cards”. The naming convention I am……

  • WooCommerce Gift Cards

    UPDATE: PLEASE READ THIS POST So I have decided to try and create my first every plugin for WordPress, instead of focusing on something easy I have decided to jump in the deep end of the pool. However I am unaware of how deep the pool is or what fluid it holds! Either way this post……

  • Wire framing design

    A quick post about Wireframing. Below is a link which details various tools to do such a thing. http://mashable.com/2010/07/15/wireframing-tools/ My personal favourite thought is from Balsamiq which I purchased a licence for and use extensively for work.

  • WebCam Recordings

    I have been toying with the idea for a while about taking an image of something every 5 or so minutes over a long period of time and creating a time-lapse movie. However nothing really came to mind. Then I thought why not create a time-lapse movie of the block of flats being built across……

  • WordPress as a CMS for Natasha Buchanan MUA

    So I have just finished migrating Natasha Buchanan’s Website completely over to WordPress, and I’m happy to say it was a breeze and the results are brilliant. It was original built using .NET and hosted on a separate Windows Server with a MS SQL 2008 server supporting the database requirements, which was costing a fair……

  • Recent iPhone Alarm Bug Solved

    With the coming of the new year of 2011 brought a very annoying bug with the iPhone that rendered the daily alarms useless. The problem made owners wake up late for the first days back to work for 2011 and some missed plains or trains as the alarms failed to go off. Apple said however……

  • Tidy Up Windows Files and Folder

    So I noticed my harddrive is getting pretty full and I wanted to move some of the larger files off to a usb harddrive. First though, I need to figure out which files are taking up the most space and where abouts they are on my harddrive. There is a really cool application call WinDirStat……

  • No Blog Updates for some time… There is a reason.

    There has been no updates on this for some time, but there are many good reasons why. In the time of my last blog, Tash and I have moved home, and that not only takes up alot of our time, but induces lots of stress. So the blog seemed to take a back seat. Not……