Posts in category dev - page 16

17 Feb 2016

Fixing unreliable TalkTalk DNS

Dev TalkTalk

My home internet connection is provided by TalkTalk. I have their medium fibre package. If I had to rate the service out of 10, I’d give it 5 (and even then only just). The consistency isn’t great, the DNS is flakey and TalkTalk keep getting hacked (see here, here and here) meaning I deal with an increasing number of spam calls. Good points are that the service is relatively cheap, and works fine most of the time.

06 Feb 2016

MySQL server has gone away – Smoke and Mirrors

Dev

Seen this error before from MySQL?

01 Feb 2016

WordPress Post Formats

Dev WordPress

‘Post formats’ is a neat WordPress feature that lets authors mark posts as a particular type and then allow the theme to style them accordingly. For example a user/blogger might find themselves just posting a picture with a caption and no other content. Such a post would likely make more sense if styled differently.

22 Jan 2016

Vim Registers

Dev Vim

I’ve been using Vim registers a lot more recently. This post is my cheat-sheet for how registers work in Vim and a few useful actions:

16 Nov 2015

Quickly setup WP Plugin Unit Tests

Dev WordPress

I am finding wp-cli increasingly useful. For those who haven’t come across it before—as the name suggests—it is a command line interface for WordPress. This in itself is fairly useful as a standalone tool for blog management (just run wp to see the possibilities!). For developers it also has a handy feature for bootstrapping plugin unit tests.

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