This is the online home of Mark Kirby, web developer.
My blog is where I post my thoughts and opinions on various aspects of the work I'm doing. Here are a couple of recent posts.
November 18, 2008
We made a nice little WordPress plugin at Ribot whilst moving our blog from a bespoke system to a lovely new 2.7 WordPress installation.
‘Date in a nice tone’ displays the amount of time since a post or page was written in a nice friendly manner. Simply use <? wp_date_in_a_nice_tone(); ?> to display the date in [...]
November 6, 2008
Tonight, (the 5th of November) rather than watch the fireworks, myself and the Ribot team headed up to Microsoft’s London offices for the 4th Silverlight UK User Group meetup, one of a series of meetups organised by London based consultancy Conchango. I thought I’d present my thoughts on tonight’s proceedings.
Image by clry2, some rights reserved
As [...]
October 26, 2008
Brighton Ruby User Group at The Eagle (image by Yandle - some rights reserved)
I was talking to Josh Russell and Steve Purkiss out in Brighton last night and both of them mentioned the idea of having a centrally located base for “geeks”, “social media types”, “web people” and others involved in creative industries in Brighton. [...]
Every now and again, I write a tutorial explaining in depth how to do something. Here are a couple of recent tutorials.
Instructions on how to install git on OSX, set up an account with github and contribute to an existing project on there. Its aimed at someone who has been asked to contribute to a codebase in github, but has no idea how.
A simple tutorial on install Fink and related tools.
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