I’ve rewritten my facebook helper for wordpress to make it a bit cleaner and as an example use case for the jQuery facebook helper I wrote last week. I’ve also delved into the wordpress code a little more and added an option to set the facebook app_id from the wordpress admin page rather than having […]
After writing this post on how to override Magento’s HTTP helper to pull in the ‘real’ remote ip address when behind a reverse proxy system like Cloudflare. After reading this, Jack at firstvapor.com helpfully wrote in to point out the right way of doing this. If you look in /app/etc/local.xml.additional there’s some extra nodes in […]
So, many of you have probably heard the rumours that Valve is going to launch some kind of hardware reference platform for the PC based mostly on this interview that Gabe Newell gave to penny-arcade in which he stated: “Well, if we have to sell hardware we will. We have no reason to believe we’re […]
This week in the office we’ve been playing with the Facebook SDK and seeing what it can do, with a mind to using it on an upcoming project (that I can’t talk about!). After a bit of playing, and bouncing ideas off each other we managed to get some fairly exciting stuff working. Since I […]
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There’s an update to this article here. The below article is here as tutorial for writing a helper in Magento, but if you just want to get the visitor IP behind cloudflare you’re better using the ‘proper’ method described here (click the ‘here’, it’s a link despite my stupid CSS not making it obvious!) This […]
One of the big projects coming up in my new role is implementing an Enterprise service bus (ESB) as the backend of our IT operations. I’d never even heard of an ESB before starting here, so this has all been new ground for me which makes it all the more interesting. The first thing I […]
Wow, it’s been quite a while since my last update. I’ve recently started a new job which has rekindled my interest in blogging about some of the interesting and geeky things I get up to. First off, I’ve launched a new site: MipsDroid.com, dedicated to Android on MIPs devices. I’ll be focusing on the Novo7 […]
So, yeah I’ve sort of lost interest in jNag unfortunately. It was a fun little project while it lasted but I’ve not updated it for a couple of months and to be honest I have no real interest in updating it any more. Mostly this is down to a complete lack of time on my […]