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Calculating “Feels Like” Temperatures

Posted 18th August 2021

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Use the Aeris Weather API to calculate Australian Ambient Temperature (AT) or “feels like” calculations from private weather station data published to PWSweather.

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Rebuilding my website: 2020

Posted 25th November 2020

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It’s been seven years since I last re-designed my personal website. Here is a look at the technologies that I used to build my new website.

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Serving WebP with fallback

Posted 5th November 2020

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Two methods to serve WebP images with a fallback for instances where a browser/OS combination doesn’t support it.

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PHP file_get_contents over HTTP or HTTPS

Posted 3rd November 2016

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A nifty PHP script which will detect whether a page is being served over HTTP or HTTPS and return the result as a string for use in PHP file_get_contents (or other) include functions.

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Blog headlines on the SilverStripe HomePage

Posted 3rd August 2015

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Insert your blog headlines and excerpts from the SilverStripe Blog Module into the front page of a SilverStripe website.

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Adding search to SilverStripe

Posted 3rd January 2015

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Whilst it’s relatively easy to add a site search function to SilverStripe, quite a bit of tweaking is required to make it perform as it should. Here are some simple instructions.

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Upgrading Silverstripe 3.1.x

Posted 5th July 2014

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Instructions for upgrading an installation of SilverStripe 3.1.x to the latest version.

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Automatic “Page Created” and “Last Modified” dates in SilverStripe

Posted 18th April 2014

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Simple pieces of code to enable ‘page created’ and ‘last modified’ dates to be added to web page footers.

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Product images on category pages in SwipeStripe

Posted 2nd March 2014

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Instructions for modifying SwipeStripe Category so that image thumbnails will appear beside product descriptions on category pages within SilverStripe websites.

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Use PHP to block Pinterest “pins” and still let your site validate

Posted 8th August 2012

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Prevent Pinterest users from “pinning” images on specific web pages or right across your website with this simple PHP include.

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