Compile Bootstrap into your WordPress theme for better peformance
Bootstrap’s powerful but comes with a huge array of modules you may not need. Here’s how to build a WordPress theme with your own compiled Bootstrap.
Technology
Responsive video embedding in your WordPress site
Having difficulty finding video sites that offer ‘responsive’ embedding options? Have no fear, it’s easy to make sure fixed width embeds are responsive in your website.
The stark contrast between management of Windows and Ubuntu
Some slightly rambling thoughts on the extremely contrasting Ubuntu and Windows methods of keeping your operating system and associated software up to date.
TL;DR Ubuntu offers a far superior experience.
Internet Explorer: Adding insult to injury
This morning I happened to see Microsoft claiming that modern.ie has saved developers 1,000,000 hours of work. Are they kidding us?
It appears to be time for another rant…
Bring me your innovation. Omnomnom.
Amazon have just bought a digital comics service I was really quite happy with. Suddenly I’m not supporting the little guy any more.
PHPSpec – Defining custom inline matchers
At first I didn’t get PHPSpec’s “inline matchers” but have since discovered how to use them for matching custom conditions in your tests.
It’s amazing how far a few simple examples will take you, and thanks to kind-hearted folk on the net, I’ve had my eyes opened and hopefully can provide some useful examples for other people.
Getting PHPSpec to work with Laravel
I’ve recently started using PHPSpec to drive my testing efforts in a new Laravel project. The behaviour-driven approach makes a lot of sense to me but I am finding it a little difficult to master.
This post provides a fix if you find PHPSpec throwing Class not found errors after running your test suite on the command line.
Linux: Find files matching a search and move them retaining directory structure
I recently had an issue with Google Drive which resulted in a large number of duplicate files and folders being created.
Fortunately, using linux command line provided an easy way find all these files and move them to another folder whilst retaining their directory structure.
Batch Optimising Images on a Linux server
Here’s a quick guide to batch optimising your website’s images to decrease page load time for your website visitors. It’s easy and only takes a few minutes.
I’ll be looking at two useful Linux command line tools – jpegoptim and optipng – and showing you how to use them and how to batch process all images in a folder (and sub-folders).
PHP: Convert height measurements between imperial and metric
Internationalisation can be a major headache: language, date formats and measurements. Here’s how to convert crazy “feet and inches” to centimetres and back.
