Here’s an iteration of a concept I came up with over the holidays. If you’re a web developer, you might enjoy this set of sixteen puzzles. Be warned! The difficulty ramps up significantly. The game starts as soon as you…
Continue ReadingBartholomew’s Plan of London – 1907
As mentioned in yesterday’s post, I’ve been georeferencing some old maps given to me by friends of mine. This map shows Bartholomew’s Plan of London. It doesn’t have a formal copyright on it, but if I’ve understood the text in…
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I’m known by friends in my home town as something of a mapping and cartography. A couple of friends of mine have been kind enough to share maps with me which they’ve inherited, dating all the way back to the…
Continue ReadingScale Chart
I’ve written a basic scale chart for stringed instruments using React, which you can see here. I’ve written scale charts using various languages many, many times now and can honestly say that leaving a few build pipeline mishaps aside, the…
Continue ReadingREST Query Monitor
I’m very pleased to announce my new WordPress plugin, REST Query Monitor. You can use this plugin to view queries run during the scope of a REST request, which is a useful alternative to relying on query logging. I’m hopeful…
Continue ReadingWatchfulAutoloadGenerator
I’m working on a specialist tool for a client at the moment which makes heavy use of Backbone.js and the WordPress REST API. Readers may be familiar with the WordPress Query Monitor plugin, which is a superb general purpose monitoring…
Continue ReadingREST Cache
REST Cache is a plugin for WordPress, which significantly speeds up calls to the REST API. WordPress’ REST API is nothing especially new, however it’s taken time to mature and really grow in terms of use in popular plugins. Many…
Continue ReadingDOMDocument Extensions
My DOMDocument extensions, which started as SmartDocument and later went into use as WPGMZA\DOMDocument, is an extension of PHP’s native DOMDocument which includes many jQuery-like functions. The main aim of this library is to facilitate easier form processing, especially for…
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Kalimba
As readers may have gathered, I’m quite an enthusiastic musician! One of the instruments I have always, always loved the sound of is the Kalimba. I’m familiar with the name from a lifetime of playing MIDI keyboards, so I was…
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Pocket Watch
This animated, 3D model of a pocket watch was conceived as a background for an old portfolio site of mine. It’s intended to showcase an eye for detail, my capacity for adapting and learning how to build new things, and…
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