Two new WordPress plugins

I've finally got around to developing yet more WordPress plugins and one of them has now been released on wordpress.org.

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Farewell baby bunny

Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later but Jake made it to the rabbit hutch when he was playing in the garden and thought "maybe my baby bunny wants a run around!" and, he did. He jumped straight through the gap in the fence and vanished to the fields beyond.

It's …

Updates to d13gallery

I thought it was about time for an update to the fucntionality of the d13gallery WordPress plugin which takes us to version 3.4. This new version has some nifty new features as well as some critical bug fixes for the thumbnail saving script.

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MKM Blogs on WeLoveWP

A quick trawl through some of the (countless) online CSS galleries came up trumps this week when I came across not one but two sites that I've worked on featued at WeLoveWP.com.

The first site to be featured is a blog that was developed by myself and Scott at …

Poppy the puppy

Well, the other week I finally succumbed and we all headed into York to look at some puppies Caroline had found on Gumtree. She'd wanted a puppy for a while now and I wasn't too sure but when she showed me the pictures I was swayed and phoned up to arrange to go and see …

ALPS

After close to 2 years of planning and development the ALPS software solution, provided by MyKnowledgeMap, is now live with pilot users. Designed as a fully end-to-end solution for managing assessment of placement students within healthcare settings the suite of tools …

Pimpin' up an old Windows Mobile phone

I've now had my Windows Mobile phone (HTC TyTn on T-Mobile) for just over a year now and I still love it. Getting my emails done on the train in the morning, browsing the web with 3G and WIFI speed and getting in a quick game of solitaire all makes life worthwhile.

I've …

Compendle product blog

To coincide with the launch of Compendle as a web-based application we, at MyKnowledgeMap, also wanted to create a platform for a community of users and enthusiasts to collaborate and share their experiences. We looked at a variety of ways to quickly establish a blog …

A day trip to Filey

With a long weekend booked off from work we decided to all hop in the car and head up to the Yorkshire coast for the day. We headed out past York (sat in the rush hour traffic for about an hour) and then sped up the A64 towards Scarborough. We split from the main …

North Circle Photography

I was approached by North Circle Photography through a friend of a friend when they were just establishing themselves as one of Northamptonshire's premiere contemporary photographers. They were after a clean and contemporary web presence that communicated their clean …

Creating a Rails Micro-blog part 3

The last few tutorials have got us pretty far with the "Gabber" application-we've now got a micro-blog up and running allowing you to create new posts (using Ajax no less!) and view them in reverse order as part of a styled page.

What we're going to do now is add some …

Creating a Rails Micro-blog part 2

Now, if you've been following this series of blogs so far you'll have set up a neat little Rails development environment and created your first application-a little micro-blog that lets you add, show, edit and delete short posts. What we're going to do as part of this …

Jake's ant nest

We were in the garden the other weekend doing a bit of work re-seeding the lawn now all the weeds have died back and Jake started shouting that he'd found some "creepy things". Not quite sure what he had found, we went to investigate what appeared to be a big mound of …

Creating a Rails Micro-blog part 1

While getting to grips with Rails I followed a number of tutorials and screencasts, many of which were confusing and ended with me deleting my Rails projects and starting again. What I'm hoping to do with this series of blogs is combine all of the best bits from the …

National Library for Health

The National Library for Health is project from the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement and is looking to pull together their vast portfolio of online training and teaching materials into one, centralised repository. Led by MyKnowledgeMap, in association with …

GHD Skills Analysis

When GHD (Good Hair Days) approached MyKnowledgeMap looking for a software application to help them manage the sales skills of their dispersed sales team Capability Matrix fit the bill. Allowing for complex organisational hierarchies as well as incredibly details, …

Compendle Web

Compendle was developed a few years ago by myself and the e-learning development team at MyKnowledgeMap. It's key aim was to transfer some of the technical tasks associated with the packaging and delivery of e-learning from the IT specialists and to the …

Getting started with Ruby on Rails

I've been quite excited by Ruby on Rails for a while now but I've never actually had enough time to sit down and figure things out. Well, recently I plucked up the courage and delved in.

There's tons of tutorials out there helping you get set up and coding with Rails …

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