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Pacific Outdoor Equipment Peak ELITE AC

Posted: November 7th, 2011 | Posted in: General

I have purchased a Pacific Outdoor Equipment Peak ELITE AC from Cotswold Outdoors here in the United Kingdom. This is the second replacement I’ve had after the first one failing on me, resulting in a night on the cold ground. Last night, on this mattress’s second camping trip, …
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Customising the WordPress admin area

Posted: August 23rd, 2011 | Tags: | Posted in: PHP, Tutorials, Wordpress

If you would like to customise your WordPress admin pages these functions are an excellent start. In this little tutorial we’ll look at customising the WordPress logo in the WordPress admin area, editing the WordPress admin footer to include your own company name and also customising the “Howdy” …
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Prettier PHP meter to feet/inches conversions

Posted: February 15th, 2011 | Tags: | Posted in: PHP, Tutorials

Whilst it’s fairly simple to convert meters to feet and inches using PHP the resulting conversion often looks rather complex and untidy. For example, most conversions will end up looking something like this: 12 meters = 39.3700 feet. This is not very pretty and looks overly complicated when …
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Digging into WordPress

Posted: December 1st, 2009 | Tags: | Posted in: General, Wordpress

There is much to learn about the World’s most popular publishing platform. From your first steps of learning about WordPress all the way through maintaining a site throughout the years, this book is packed with truly practical information. The book goes into depth about the anatomy of a …
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