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Interesting post about the dangers of freelancing on Upwork. They eventually sorted this situation out, but I suspect only because of the huge social media coverage. ∞

Considering buying a Chinese Android phone like a Xiaomi, Vernee, Elephone, Huawei, Honor, etc? They seem to be incredible value for high specification devices, about half the price of a premium brand smartphone. They’re very popular and getting rave reviews in tech forums. But it doesn’t always work out. Let me tell you a story. […]

I recently had the opportunity to get an ARC copy of Neil Gaiman’s “The Ocean at The End of The Lane” which has just released in mass-market paperback. I’ve read a huge amount of praise for Gaiman, he is frequently touted as one of the top fantasy authors in the world. I read a lot […]

I’ve written a few long form book reviews here and posted to Goodreads and Amazon. And lately I’ve been asking people to review my new book “Running a Website with WordPress: A Quick Guide for Business Owners“. There’s been some discussion lately in book forums about paid-for book reviews, and how – hopefully – Amazon […]

“Running a Website with WordPress: A Quick Guide for Business Owners” is a short guide for business owners containing essential website tips for running a WordPress website. It’s free on Amazon Kindle for the next 24 hours. (Not in the US? Get a direct link for your Amazon here) It includes: a single change that […]

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(Or “Should I Allow a Competitor to Join My Facebook Group or Email List”) My take on it is this: I often subscribe to the email lists of potential competitors for a few reasons: 1) I think other businesses and people are direct competitors in only the most rare of circumstances (1% of the time, […]

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Reading Tim’s post about default WordPress themes and bloat, I thought I’d experiment with creating an absolute minimalist WordPress theme, which you can see live here on amdsoft.com here at the time of writing. I want a single, functional barely styled skeleton theme a default theme that no one will ever use – Tim Nash […]

Here’s a new version of the wp-cli backup script mentioned previously. This adds a check that it’s running as a user, and backs up the upload directory too. You need to have wp-cli installed and run this in your WordPress root, as a regular (non-root) user. If you use this I’d love to hear from […]

It’s the last of the 14 days of Cycle Against Suicide, and my 13th day on the bike after missing one day out for work. We’ve come from Belfast to Malin Head to Mizen Head and back up the midlands spreading the message “Everyone feels shit sometimes and that’s ok. It’s also ok to tell […]

  It’s been a busy few days so apologies for lack of updates.  Tuesday evening after finishing in Skibbereen I met my parents – dad is down to join the cycle, mum is providing support and enjoying being part of this big orange circus.   Still in my cycling gear, I drove their car the long […]

  We stopped in Bantry after a very long day – 128km from Tralee to Kenmare to Bantry with around 1100m of climbing including a single, gradual 14km climb from Kenmare up through the Caha Pass. It was very cruel to give us two final and fairly serious short climbs at the very end in Bantry […]

We’re in Tralee and halfway around our 1400km journey. Last night a few pints were had in Fels Point Hotel, and there was a pretty serious karaoke competition – serious in quality terms at least, it was a fun evening.  I limited myself to 3 pints and a relatively early night because today is going […]

I got my bag back about 30 minutes after posting yesterday’s blog post! The system works: one of the crew noticed the bag in the morning and dropped it over to the night bag truck. I was very glad of it as I could put on long cycling trousers instead of the thin summer shorts […]

As I mentioned yeterday, I was under time pressure in the morning. I arrive late into St Mel’s in Longford, the orange train was getting ready to leave the station.  I had been wearing my big rucksack while pedalling furiously into town from the B&B, so I looked for Doreen’s day bag van to chuck […]

Time pressure so I’ll let the pictures and smiles do the talking for yesterday!               

It looks like another misleadingly beautiful morning out there.  I’m staying in The Fiddlestone Pub and B&B in the village of Beleek on the border of Co. Fermanagh, UK, and Co. Donegal, IE. Raymond has been a fantastic host here, helping us get wet cycling clothes and shoes dried out, all while running a busy […]

  Lying awake since 5, listening to the rain on and off. More off than on as the morning brightens, hopefully! It sounds like it’s going to be another nasty day out there today, I think I’ll bury myself in the middle of the pack today and recover from yesterday’s exertions. Damn that wind for shifting […]

A very brief update on Day 1, Belfast – Ballymena RFC – Coleraine. 100km. Started 10.50am, finished 6.59pm. Weather: 4 seasons in one day. I regretted not having my winter gloves, very cold afternoon session, although no repeat of the brief hailstone shower of earlier. Some photos of Day 1

This is a note to future self as much as anything, but hopefully useful for someone out there. Situation: uploads are failing with “Unable to create directory uploads. Is its parent directory writable by the server?” Check the following: wp-content/uploads is chmod -R 777 (for testing, switch to something more secure after you get this […]

Hi folks, You may have noticed that we’ve recently made all of SelfAssemblySites video training library and bonus downloads available to anyone who signs up for a free account. Back in 2011 we launched the site with high hopes, but … Continue reading →