Mark Kirby

This is the online home of Mark Kirby, web developer.

My blog

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.

WordPress as a CMS talk and sample code

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 [...]

WordPress as a CMS slides

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.

5 good practices for small software companies

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 [...]

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Tutorials

Every now and again, I write a tutorial explaining in depth how to do something. Here are a couple of recent tutorials.

Backups for startups and small companies

Backup suggestions for small companies who work off laptops, and in an office.

How to install wordpress using ssh and svn

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.

More tutorials...

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