Saying hello to a better future
I'm moving to Swiss web agency Say Hello as partner, client consultant and full-stack developer from January 2019.
Saying hello to a better future
The end of Flickr
It’s been a long time. A very long time. I joined Flickr back in 2005 and posted my first photos via email from my camera phone. (Three years before anyone had any kind of inkling of the smartphone.) Getting to know other people through the photo sharing service gave me a group of friends, which essentially kept me in…
Martinsloch, Grindelwald
The sun shines through a small hole in the rock face of the Eiger at Grindelwald for a couple of minutes, twice every year.
When Your Body Says No
“It’s not age that makes you an adult, I see now, or even most of the experiences that age brings. What finally does it is the things you lose along the way. A parent dies; you don’t get the girl. And you are wrecked. And you are less for these losses. What makes you an adult, finally, is that…
Review of 2018
It’s been a very difficult year, but the sadness has been diluted a little with some lovely memories along the way. Here’s to a better 2019.
cubetech Desk Memories
The farewell photo of my fourth office desk in Switzerland, before I start afresh in the Bernese Oberland.
What I’ve built with WordPress
Some people believe that WordPress isn't suitable for more than a simple website. Throughout my career, I've proved that assumption wrong many times over.
Technical case study: working around an intensive site cache
How we swapped out individual sections of a high-traffic site to make best use of WordPress' REST API.
Greenland – Land of Ice
A remarkable and beautiful film of nature, landscape, ice and ocean by photographer Stefan Forster.
The first cable-car in Switzerland
The Wetterhorn Aufzug in Grindelwald took visitors up towards the Wetterhorn until 1915.
Softly, softly
Wide vistas with blue skies and imposing mountains may be good camera fodder, but they can also become a bit monotonous.
Sardona tectonic area, Graubünden
My second “vlog”, from Flims in Graubünden.
The data we leave behind
Planning for the inevitable in a digital world.
Green ripples
I was intrigued by this effect. Although the photo looks like green sand, the ripples are actually light and shade cast by the sun on the rippling surface of the lake.
How to get your visitors where they need to be
I presented at the WordCamp conference in Lausanne a couple of weeks ago, on the subject of website usability. The video of my talk is now online.
Thomas Heaton in Switzerland
British photographer and videographer Thomas Heaton visits three of my favourite locations in Switzerland.
Working with multilingual theme options
I’ve been using the Advanced Custom Fields plugin for WordPress for nearly five years, and it’s implemented in every project I’ve created or worked on since I began using it. At work, our WordPress Themes depend on Theme Options, which are set using custom fields created by the plugin. In order to make the technique work well…
Technical case study: HTML5 video
How I quickly implemented a splash page for Sulzer Schmid Laboratories, containing an autoplaying HTML5 video.
Speaking at WordCamp Lausanne
I'm presenting at WordCamp Lausanne at the end of September. Come and hear me talk about user interfaces and usability, and get your questions answered too.
Pride of place
I finally got around to framing and hanging some photos of favourite places in my home office.