technical musings

I have now installed imagick on 3 machines running Apple OS X Lion and have put these instructions together to help others. There isn’t a great deal of information out there, well not a lot that seems to work or is complete. So here goes. The 3 machines I used are an iMac 27″, a [...]

In recent weeks I have become more involved with using git and github for version control. For my spare time projects I work on an iMac and a Mac Book Pro and I wanted a way to enable me to work on the same project on either machine. Setting up a local git repository was [...]

Ever since upgrading to Lion OS X from Snow Leopard my Mac Book Pro freezes on start up. When the login box appears the “waiting wheel” comes up and the whole machine is frozen. The only thing to do is hold down the pose button and restart. Looking at the Apple support site this seems [...]

Something that has been bothering me with Apple’s new (awesome) OS X is the glaring lack of “Save As” in native apps like iWorks. This has caused some frustration I can tell you and will be doing for some others out there I’m sure. Don’t fear or give up, there is an option. Apple have [...]

It seems there is a fair amount of posts on the subject of adding rel=”nofollow” to wordpress links already but the ones in my Google search were all for older versions and not for the latest version (WP v3.1.2) so I thought I would update the situation. Locate the file “bookmark-template.php” in the wp-includes folder. [...]

On occasions you may be required to clear your dns cache on you mac. This is a simple task and only requires one of 2 commands and access t Terminal. Locate terminal in the Applications->Utilities folder. Once the app is open you need to enter one of the following commands. The command is ependant upon [...]

The sun setting in Whitby, England. Taken whilst on holiday with my girlfriend Jessica in June 2011.

I have just uploaded my new portfolio website. The site is to be a central location for all my technical creations and musings. Having had a few portfolio websites and blogs I have now found the time to finally create something new and in one place. I am in the process of adding my old [...]

Up until now I have never bothered with the css font shorthand attribute, always opting to use the individual attributes instead, solely due to my lack of understanding of how it is structured. After coming across it in some web updates I have recently completed I decided to investigate and understand what it all means. [...]

Normally this is not an issue but a recent project I was working on meant that the normal way of using dates has caused an issue. When converting a date that is formatted dd/mm/yyyy to yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss didn’t work the way I wanted it to. A way round this is to format the UK date [...]