Up-to-the-minute London signage
London has up-to-the-minute signage, so much so that when Victoria’s friend took her photo the other weekend, it looked like this…
Archive for 2009
Geograph
A project sponsored by the OS to relate photographs to each grid square.
How long before somebody finds a way of exploiting / monetising this?
Geograph.
Flip Text Generator
Something searching for a use.
http://www.fliptextgenerator.com/
Uses apparently little-known character codes to invert most text (struggles with capitals).
reCAPTCHA for Magento
Well done Fontis for integrating reCAPTCHA into Magento to prevent SPAM through the contact form and “social” pages. About time!
Well though-out and integrated beautifully into admin.
Keys are required from reCAPTCHA andthe extension can be installed through Magento Connect using the extention key on the Magento Extention page.
No brown M&Ms
Randomly browsing, I found the legendary Van Halen rider, posted on The Smoking Gun. Yes, the “no brown M&Ms” line is there, and intriguingly a requirement that forks are not plastic and have four prongs. Did Eddie Van Halen have some terrible two-prong fork related accident as a child?
Free Map Tools
This site has some super Google Map tools – including Meeting Centre Of Gravity by Postcode and Map Tunnelling.
WordPress 2.7.1 auto upgrade fix
I discovered last night that the auto-upgrade function to take WordPress 2.7 to 2.7.1 failed – or rather it sat at the “downloading wordpress-2.7.1.zip” message indefinitely.
At the auto-upgrade is a new feature of 2.7, I had never been able to test this functionality, although I had high expectations of it since the plugin upgrade has worked so well.
After searching the forums and Google for a while I found bassmadrigal’s solution – modify .htaccess for the WordPress installation in question and add:
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
Works fine, and the auto upgrade of plugins stills works too.
The science bit
Using 1and1 as a host requires this directive in .htaccess as detailed in the WordPress codex. It forces the 1and1 server to parse .php files as php5 files (instead of, presumably, php4).
I had this before my upgrade to 2.7 (OK, technically a re-installation) and unfortunately the baby got thrown out with the bathwater.
1and1 contract secret
Shhh, 1and1 don’t want you to know this, but…
… you can cancel or amend contracts at
contract.1and1.co.uk
As far as I can tell, this information is not to be found on the admin.1and1.co.uk FAQ or Help pages. I had to complete an online support request to find this info.
Once you are in, it’s easy – so I have started the process of releasing four unwanted domain names.
Update 2nd December 2010: the URL has changed to cancel.1and1.co.uk – still not well documented.
GS1 Prefixes
GS1 is the organisation which deals with retail barcode number range issuing; they publish a handy table showing prefix codes.
Train and Certify staff certified as TPMA assessors
Train and Certify Limited is delighted to announce that four members of its professional services team have now been certified as TPMA assessors by the IITT.
Following a rigorous three day programme with the Institute, Tahir Zubair, David Levey, Stewart Dawes and Adrian Ince have each been trained and approved to assess the TPMA qualification on behalf of the IITT.
Tahir Zubair, Training Director, today said “This is great news for Train and Certify and affirms our commitment to the TPMA programme. We will be offering assessment sessions with immediate effect, and our Train the Trainer course, specifically written for and mapped to the programme, will be available from February.”
Further information about Train and Certify Limited and their training and assessment programme can be found on their website, www.trainandcertify.co.uk
