‘Embedded’ was probably too strong a term for the merging of a blogger blog into the Pro Hair Biosystems magento store site. Aligning the styling is probably a better way of describing it. The export/import process was pretty easy and fixing up the categories/tags switch up just required a simple plugin. It’s probably better for… read more
Digital Acorn offers an extensive website repair and improvement service. We undertake projects from 2-hour ‘quick fixes’ up to much larger projects. Needless to say there are too many individual projects to list. They’re all interesting in their own way and vary from DJ’s to Tree Surgeons, Travel Sites to IT Teachers, and Fishing Tackle… read more
Ok, so I’m setting up my new site. I’ve gone for WordPress, and I’ve decided to go live at an early stage. So apologies for any inconvenience as it takes shape. I’ve used various systems before as a developer for clients, including Joomla, CMS Made Simple, Blogger etc. I like WordPress, and I really like the… read more
I’ve been doing some Android development on my… ahem… ‘holiday’. It is a very nice operating system to use and develop for. The documentation is pretty good and the samples excellent. Of course it is a shame about the Java. I see there have been some attempts to use Python but these seem to have… read more
I mainly read non-fiction, however I’ve been reading the following book: Sum: Tales from the Afterlives. The book describes 40 possible afterlives as a series of short essays. I decided to have a pop at writing an afterlife of my own in the style of the book. Here is my effort.. Beta The afterlife shouldn’t… read more
Annual company accounts successfully submitted to Companies House and corporation tax liability calculated. That was relatively easy. I decided not to use an accountant this year for my company accounts. I do all of my own book-keeping anyway into Sage Software. And even the ‘Instant Accounts’ edition is powerful enough to generate decent balance-sheet and profit and… read more
I attended the SEO seminar by Silverbean this afternoon… It was at the RMT (the accountants) offices. It was pretty good, and did go into some detail about keyword densities and anchor text. But of course it wasn’t as technical as it might have been (they do have a service to sell). Learn’t some useful stuff about… read more
I had edited the functions.php file to add a ‘read-more’ link to the end of post snippets instead of the [...] text. function new_excerpt_more($post) { return ‘… ’ . ‘read more’ . ”; } add_filter(‘excerpt_more’, ‘new_excerpt_more’); Inadvertently I had added a newline outside of the php closing tag at the end of the file. As this file… read more
Nice to see. And they don’t look half as rough on the tyres compared to the old patch-ridden surface. It’ll be a shame to cover them up with tarmac again. It looks like the council hasn’t taken the opportunity to widen the woefully narrow footpath though…. And the primary school tries to promote walking to… read more
I’ve just done some modifications to a magento install which I administer to allow custom canonical tags to be specified in the “Custom Layout Update” field of product items and categories. Magento is notoriously bad for url canonicalisation out of the box, as it generates at least 4 urls for each product, all with almost… read more
This has been long awaited and is is a much appreciated addition to the gmail service. If you use GMail check out your settings page. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/7881493/Google-adds-rich-text-signatures-to-Gmail.html
I’ve gone completely WordPress (3.0) loopy. I am currently also working on embedding a WordPress blog into a Magento e-commerce site. Getting a dab hand at it, and will post the link when its complete. I’ve decided to keep the database and file hierarchy separate for security reasons. Doing this sacrifices the sophisticated caching mechanism… read more
So I’m posting this image via posterous. It is going (in theory) to my blog, to linked-in and to flickr. It is an image of Ella soon after collecting her pink Barbie bike from freecycle.
Test from mobile via flickr Originally uploaded by pgdyaya So this is the body text to my post
I’m looking into various options for posting to my wordpress blog. Over the next week or so I’m going to try various systems, including Worpress collecting from a POP email, Flickr, Posterous and any others I can find. Ideally I’d like nice formatting, with optional images, and a system that I can use from my… read more
Qualified to Ph.D. level in Atomic Physics, with over 15 years experience in software development, website development, computer game programming and project management.
Peter pays very close attention to the details and fixing bugs and solving problems are what makes him tick!
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Established in 2006, Digital Acorn Limited is based in Hexham, Northumberland.
