This is the online home of Mark Kirby, web developer.
My blog is where I post my thoughts and opinions on various aspects of the work I'm doing. Here are a couple of recent posts.
In the previous post you can see slides from the talk I gave at The Werks in Hove last week. It was a full event, with around 20 attendees, so thanks to all for coming, and helping raise money for The Werks. Thanks also to Rosie for inviting me along.
During the talk we touched on [...]
I gave a talk today at The Werks on using WordPress as a CMS.
Here are the slides:
I’ll be posting more about this talk shortly.
Over the last 3 years I introduced some essential processes and practices to the small organisation I worked for. Any small company involved with software development would benefit from these, and although they are all very obvious I wanted to list them here to provide a checklist for anyone rethinking the way they work.
In no [...]
Every now and again, I write a tutorial explaining in depth how to do something. Here are a couple of recent tutorials.
Backup suggestions for small companies who work off laptops, and in an office.
How to install wordpress on a remote server that has ssh access, or on your own local machine, using svn.
This will enable you to install Wordpress with a single line of code and update Wordpress with a single line of code, from then on.
This site was created with Wordpress, using my own template.