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Martinsloch, Grindelwald
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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
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“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
Review of 2018
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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.
What I’ve built with WordPress
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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.
How I swapped out individual sections of a high-traffic site to make best use of WordPress’ REST API.
Greenland – Land of Ice
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A remarkable and beautiful film of nature, landscape, ice and ocean by photographer Stefan Forster.
The first cable-car in Switzerland
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The Wetterhorn Aufzug in Grindelwald took visitors up towards the Wetterhorn until 1915.
Softly, softly
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Wide vistas with blue skies and imposing mountains may be good camera fodder, but they can also become a bit monotonous.
The data we leave behind
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Planning for the inevitable in a digital world.
Green ripples
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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.
Technical case study: HTML5 video
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How I quickly implemented a splash page for Sulzer Schmid Laboratories, containing an autoplaying HTML5 video.
Pride of place
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I finally got around to framing and hanging some photos of favourite places in my home office.
A bit OCD
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Because I’m a bit OCD and because I have an eye for design, I’ve always thought how appealing a high street could look if the store fronts on high streets were matched. It looks as though the architects of Zurich’s newest main station shopping concourse have the same view, as the logos and frontages are
I was recently set the task of integrating a Mailchimp mailing list to a WordPress website by way of a multi-step Gravity Form. The regular form fields were easy to link, but the interest groups needed a bit more research. Alongside regular list fields, you can add an interest group, so that subscribers can indicate
Pierre Pertuis
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In an unassuming bit of forest in the Jura mountains, a small road leads between the towns of Sonceboz and Tavannes, which leads up and over a small pass between the two neighbouring valleys. In the woods just before you get to Tavannes is a band of limestone cliff, in which there is an arch,
A new perspective – Faulensee
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Short sequence of aerial views of Faulensee in Switzerland.
