Web Developer London
· 9 min read
Read about how I set up a Vercel account, created a basic Next.js app and connected it to this site's Wordpress Rest API.
· 5 min read
In part one I got the basis of the plugin in place. Now I actually made it usable and added features/docs that mean it could be installed anywhere
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The Google Maps API has the potential to cost money if you go over the fair use policy. But there is a great freebie alternative!
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Fancied building myself an interactive version of the tool DJs use to help them mix tunes in key.
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I've been beavering away recently in the background to refresh my old website. So here it is!
· 2 min read
Managed to bag myself a couple of new CD decks to DJ on last week. And today I've finally been able to get a mixer to use with them!
· 5 min read
We fixed this in the room booking plugin. A fortnight later we walked straight into the identical problem in the events plugin without recognising it.
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Got a venue with a load of rooms that you hire out? How about a plugin to help with that?
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Find out how I handle dates and times in the plugin. Definitely needed some thought, in particular multi-date events.
· 11 min read
I'm a bit of a transport nerd. So when I realised I could build train station and bus stop departure LED boards with some Python, I had to give it a go!
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So I'd built most of the gubbins to handle events themselves, but now we needed a way to handle the event venues - in itself a pretty large chunk of work.
· 8 min read
Replacing some disparate vendor apps and hardware with one touchscreen dashboard.
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There is no register_post_type('gig') anywhere in it — and once a type is created, its key can never change again. Both of those are deliberate.
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The off-the-shelf options either wanted to run the whole box office, or needed other plugins bolted on. Surely it can't be that hard to do it myself?!
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Why an SVG needs encoding before it will sit in a CSS background image, and the little tool I keep here for doing it — rebuilt, and about a third leaner than the version I wrote in 2018.
