Chinese Relapse

Sep 5, 2008 | No comments

After a prolonged lapse I will soon be restarting my attempts to learn Chinese by signing up for proper classroom-based lessons. My hope is that I'll be able to learn better than previous DIY attempts. I've even been provided with a student ID card, effectively turning me into a bona-fide student once more.

On the development side of things I've finally updated all of my WordPress plugins to support the latest version of WordPress, as well as fixing most outstanding problems. I'm also planning to distribute the plugin library that I've developed over the course of the past few years. This will likely take place as a series of articles documentating how to use it. Hopefully this will prove useful either as the basis for other plugins, or simply as a learning resource.

  • A Change Of Location

    Feb 1, 2008 | 7 comments
    year of rat

    Next week sees the beginning of the Chinese Year of the Rat, and with it millions of Chinese will celebrating with their families. The rat symbolises wealth and prosperity to the Chinese, and I'm hoping this is a good sign as by the end of the month I will be moving to London to restart Life 2.0.

    My feelings about this are mixed. In many respects I'm looking forward to having access to all the modern goodness that I'm used to, but in others I'm expecting severe culture-shock as I rejoin the familiar rat-race (pun intended). Like many Chinese at this time of the year I shall be catching up with family (although hopefully not hampered by extreme weather conditions). Following that I'll be faced with the rather more difficult prospect of finding employment and a place to live.

    Seeing as the internet is ideally built for self-promotion I thought I may as well mention that if anyone happens to be in the position of needing a full-time London-based developer then please do get in touch. There's some more details about my skills here, and it should be noted that I can do other things besides PHP/WordPress. Pimp-mode over.

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  • China Freeze

    Jan 30, 2008 | 1 comment

    I'm cold. Very cold. For the past two weeks China has been experiencing the worst winter in fifty years. Much of the country has been covered in snow. Living in the relatively warmer climates of Southern China you would expect winter to be a mild affair. Last year it was, but this year the temperatures have dropped to around 4 degrees (daytime). Now this isn't such a low number when compared to other parts of the country, but the important factor is that the South is completely unprepared for such weather. For example, the building I live in has absolutely no insulation, the windows have gaps along the edges, the door leading to the balcony is an interior door, and there is no heating of any kind. The building itself is made of concrete and this only seems to intensify the exterior temperature. I can safely say that this is the coldest winter I've ever experienced - cold, damp, and miserable. Prague seems balmy in comparison.

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  • Site registration and newsletter

    Jan 29, 2008 | No comments

    If you've visited the site in the past few days you might have noticed several additions. I've been trying to reduce the maintenance overhead of managing upwards of twenty plugins, as well as reduce the support of answering emails for these. This has resulted in:

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  • Redirection beta-testing

    Jan 15, 2008 | 1 comment

    I've got a substantial update to Redirection just about finished off and ready for release. Rather than dropping this out and running the risk of upsetting a lot of websites, I've decided to try a private beta-test to iron out any final problems.

    The new version gives much better management of redirections and error logging, and adds very powerful support for native Apache .htaccess files (i.e. you can use Redirection to edit .htaccess). If this sounds like something you want to help out with then drop me a line. The only requirement for this is that you are familiar with backing up and restoring your site database, or that you have a test WordPress site. The biggest help will be from people who are already using Redirection and have data to import into the new version.

    Thanks in advance for any help!

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