Category Archives: Programming

Keep Calm and Carry on Coding

Posted on June 4, 2011 by Matthew Wilcoxson

I’ve had a change of name, well the blog has. It is based on the poster which displays the text “Keep calm and Carry On”, this was originally created back in 1939 by the British Government and was intended to … Continue reading →

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PhpGedView, SourceForge and the US Government

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Matthew Wilcoxson

I originally installed PhpGedView back in 2007. It’s an open source and free web program for managing family trees and based on the universal Gedcom file format commonly used in many genealogical websites and applications. I’ve been using it on … Continue reading →

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The Forestry Commission, OpenData and Ordnance Survey

Posted on January 29, 2011 by Matthew Wilcoxson

At the start of the week I decided to try to collect some information together regarding the Forestry Commissions’ owned woodland and map that data so we can see the scale and find out which ones are locally owned. (Jump … Continue reading →

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TwentyTen wordpress child hacks

Posted on August 1, 2010 by Matthew Wilcoxson

Having planned to do the work to combine my two previous blogs together, I thought I’d take the opportunity to upgrade to the very latest WordPress 3.0 version, which includes the all new default theme TwentyTen. This is already a … Continue reading →

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Auto Redirect from Blogger to WordPress

Posted on July 10, 2010 by Matthew Wilcoxson

…redirect your old Blogger blog account to your new, self hosted Wordpress blog account… Continue reading →

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CanvasZoom – HTML5 Canvas and code

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Matthew Wilcoxson

The CanvasZoom program – similar to Zoomify – drawn with the HTML5 Canvas and JavaScript. Continue reading →

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3D Printing thingi’s

Posted on May 19, 2010 by Matthew Wilcoxson

several examples of what is possible, from door handles to cartoon characters to children’s shoes Continue reading →

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HTML 5 canvas – "Earth Clock"

Posted on April 6, 2010 by Matthew Wilcoxson

So that I could test some of the new HTML5 features I put together a new clock design, called the world clock. HTML 5 is an upcoming standard for the internet, and it has some rather nice features such as … Continue reading →

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CSS IE Media Query Hacks

Posted on March 25, 2010 by Matthew Wilcoxson

I’m not a fan of CSS hacks, they are totally unstable and unpredictable pieces of code, usually built on top of another bug… but… unfortunately the way of the web has made it almost impossible to avoid them – I … Continue reading →

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Subversion – folders and projects

Posted on November 22, 2009 by Matthew Wilcoxson

This post is about folder structures and project management in Subversion.. If you don’t already know what Subversion is check out the previous post: http://www.akademy.co.uk/blog-tips/2009/09/source-control-beginning-with-subversion/ Folder Structure The folder structure you implement in your repository can have significant impacts on … Continue reading →

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