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09th August 2009 6 Comments

WYMeditor Fieldtype for ExpressionEngine

I’ve just knocked together a quick WYMeditor Fieldtype which I’m happy to share with anyone that’s interested.

Its built on Brandon Kelly’s excellent Fieldframe framework, so you’ll need to grab that, and enable jQuery in the cp via your favorite flavor.

Grab it after the jump:

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13th July 2009 6 Comments

Slides from my presentation on ExpressionEngine at Barcamp 3 - Auckland

For anyone who attended my presentation on Saturday at Barcamp Auckland, or anyone that’s interested,
you can download my slides (1.4mb PDF).

The presentation went waaay faster than I expected, totally ran out of time to go through some code examples I had and related tips.

If you attended and have some questions, feel free to . I’m more than happy to talk/share/catchup on anything ExpressionEngine.

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17th June 2008

Drop shadows with a difference

A wee video tutorial on how I jazz up drop shadows on photoshop…

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06th May 2008

Switched to an em based layout

Moving away from ‘old faithful’ - the pixel, has been on the cards for a while now. It was probably the realign of SimpleBits and the accompanying blog post that caused the change in thought. 

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04th May 2008

No cigarettes for a month

No Cigarrettes for a month.
No Cigarrettes for a month.
No Cigarrettes for a month.
No Cigarrettes for a month.

Wow! Go me!

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20th April 2008 2 Comments

Smokefree for 2 weeks

I’ve been smoking for nearly half my life.
Nearly. Half. My. Life.

Steadily, over the last year I was enjoying the addiction less and less and after a previous failed attempt to quit, I wanted to make sure this time was for good.

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17th April 2008

Colourful me

I dunno what it was, but for some unbeknown reason, I started playing around with trying to generate a random hex colour.

It wasn’t as easy as i hoped… (initially)…

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22nd February 2008

Finally, Finally, Finally

"Whangarei mayor Stan Semenoff has announced plans to establish an international-standard Hundertwasser arts centre at Whangarei’s Town Basin.”

Absolutely fantastic news for Whangarei just announced by WDC.

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19th February 2008 2 Comments

I’m a certified EE addict

Yeah, I know what you’re thinking… Iain has developed a nasty habit and needs to go to rehab.

Nah, I haven’t lost it, I’ve only just got started. Today I just got my application back from EllisLab and I’m over the moon to be part of the ExpressionEngine Professionals Network. Go me.

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17th September 2007

ExpressionEngine does it for me

I think I’ve found the holy grail of Content Management Systems for average joe coders such as myself. If your down and dirty with plain old html and dabble in php - then given a couple of weeks of tinkering, you can have a full blown dynamic website that knocks the socks of anything you’ve done before.

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02nd May 2007 2 Comments

Web typography

I’ve always found typography in my site designs to be a sticking point, inconsistencies accross large sites, lack of flow and general hacks to make stuff look right for a quick fix are generally my faults when it comes to site design

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26th June 2006

Backing up files made easy with Synctoy

Microsoft has brought out a great little tool for synchronizing folders and backing up data. Its called Synctoy and is a free download from the Microsoft website.

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