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Quidco – save money when shopping online!
There are quite a few sites around that offer money off vouchers and coupons for online retailers. Quidco, however, not only does that but, if you visit the retailer via them, you can earn money back as well. Indeed, it’s this last operation that Quidco was originally set up to provide – vouchers and coupons…
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Improving WordPress Search Further
I wrote an article some time ago highlighting ways to implement search improvements to WordPress (and the default search DOES suck). Now, I’d like to update you on where I am, including some further changes that I made last night. Current Set-up My current set-up is that I’m displaying 3 posts per page. However, in…
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Amazon Kindle eBook Reader
For a while I’ve been watching the eBook reader market with interest. Not necessarily for myself, but my wife is an avid book reader, and only a truly amazing device would probably move her away from the paper variety. Amazon’s Kindle was a start, but it relied on a limited 3G network arrangement in the…
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Mole, R.I.P.
Back in, oooo, the mid 1990’s, I set up about writing a new system at work. Named “Mole” it was designed to be a knowledge-base system with extensive search capabilities. It was written on the company mainframe, using an online language called RPF (Roscoe Programming Facility). At the time, we hadn’t long had PCs, so…
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The WordPress Loop
I often get asked about “the loop” in WordPress, as many of my plugins require knowledge of it for successful integration. “The loop” is simply some WordPress code that handles the fetching of post or pages. Each WordPress theme has a number of files that handle different types of output – for instance, index.php is…