• @PierceComms Pierce Communications is hiring! We’re looking for a Web Developer – details here: http://prc.ms/piercecareers #tweetni

• Every time you get the urge to check analytics for purely personal reasons, don’t, spend your time doing something to boost your metrics.

• If you are looking for Hosting, SSL Certs, etc., give @bigwetfish a try, excellent customer support and prices. http://bit.ly/ygjrk3

• My article on Developers using Social Media has been used by the Software Developer’s Journal! http://bit.ly/HejEPJ

• Getting Cozy With Underscore.js http://j.mp/Hbkldf

• If you missed it yesterday, here is the Google Chrome Lord of the Rings comment – http://tosbourn.com/2012/03/development/chromes-lord-of-the-rings-easter-egg/

• @intercom Deadlines you can’t afford to miss can leave you with products you can’t afford to ship.

• Really weird that you need get_the_date if you want to display the dates for each post… http://bit.ly/HxyIX1 #wordpress

• @sofimi “Be there, or be border-radius: 0;” #crying

• 5 Ways To Include Template Files In WordPress http://bit.ly/H2LZqW via @AddThis

• My #FF goes to @pauldonnelly for his #wordpress mastery.

• Pro-tip: How To Backup All Of Your GitHub Repositories In One Go http://addyosmani.com/blog/backing-up-a-github-account/

• RT @aheadWorks: The release of #Magento CE 1.7.0.0 is getting closer. Preview the improvements and new features.http://bit.ly/GZHSfO

• Unable to connect to a linux box from a windows box using keys – any ideas? http://serverfault.com/q/374430/33694?stw=1

• Anyone know any good german language web development/design blogs? #german

• I had no idea one of my questions was an IT Security Question of the Week. http://bit.ly/GQcUoA #security What to do when a sysadmin leaves?

• Fuck @willhamill for wanting me to work here -http://www.betabeat.com/2012/03/23/how-to-feed-and-care-for-your-developer/

• Mashing on a keyboard might make you think you have a secure password, but you know what is really good at replicating that shit, computers.

• Does anyone add vendor prefixes to border-radius – looks like the support is there to drop them (http://bit.ly/GFblKg) #css3

• Making the Dino roar – syncing audio and CSS transitions ✩ Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog http://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/03/making-the-dino-roar-syncing-audio-and-css-transitions/

• Getting Instance Name(s) of a JavaScript Object – http://j.mp/FRojrp

• FireRainbow is dope.

• Students – want to get paid to work on @owasp projects like @zaproxy ? See https://www.owasp.org/index.php/GSoC2012_Ideas #GSoC Please RT

• Forcing www. on multiple domains #modrewrite RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. RewriteRule ^ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

• The Art Of Content Marketing – http://j.mp/yHmRIu

• Nettuts+ Quiz #11: Do You Know SQL? http://j.mp/FTeBiU

• Re-designing CakePHP website – http://j.mp/FPQ6a3

• Symptoms Of An Epidemic: Web Design Trends http://j.mp/z9KKcB

• How to get girls to like code: http://programmerryangosling.tumblr.com (via @Jason_scott)

• Just ordered the CSS Anthology by @rachelandrew via @sitepointdotcom looking forward to getting it.

• @patrick_allaert  A: Do you have a time estimation to develop it? B: Mhhh, about 2. A: Hours? B: Don’t know the unit yet. #epic #estimation #development

• This is excellent – “@brianjewing: The IE team seem to be making a concerted effort to redeem IE9. Not bad, actually. http://browseryoulovedtohate.com/”

This is because whilst Twitter is excellent as a massive hosepipe of information, it is very easy to quickly lose on of your own tweets.

For now this will be a quick copy/paste job but in the future I will probably write something to handle all this for me.

• It’s time to start using JavaScript strict mode : http://j.mp/AtVbzW

• HTML5 is not ready yet – and will never be (and that is a good thing) – http://j.mp/x7AREq

• Defensive Programming: Being Just-Enough Paranoid http://j.mp/wI0qOZ

• @roryjeffers: @tosbourn I think @barcampbelfast is soon and @sazzy is speaking at the Ulster Festival of Art & Design on 21st of this month.

• Nice Mac app that gives nice simple calendar functionality – http://shauninman.com/archive/2011/10/20/day_o_mac_menu_bar_clock

You can follow me on twitter here.


var term = $('.twitter-anywhere-tweet-box-editor').val();
$(".stream-item:contains('" + term + "')").css('display','none');


If you save it as a bookmarklet you can use this by typing the term you want to disappear from your timeline in the search box and then clicking the bookmarklet.

javascript:var term = $('.twitter-anywhere-tweet-box-editor').val();$(".stream-item:contains('" + term + "')").css('display','none');

That has no practical application really as it doesn’t persist over page reloads and only lets you do one phrase at a time, but it helped me vent some frustration at dumb tweets!

That is mental, I shouldn’t have to think about being social online and where I should be doing it, something needs sorted.

I think the reason I have issues with where to put stuff is because up until now I pretty much post to whichever networks I find the most convenient at that time.  Which is messy to say the least and leaves my Facebook friends with a stream of tech articles when (most of them) aren’t techie types.

Some people link all three together, so you post to one place and it posts to them all.  I used to do this but have grown to dislike it, a lot of people have profiles on all three places and if you see the exact same thing posted three times at the same time in three different places it starts to look like spam.

So, as from right now this is how I am going to break my usage down.

Twitter is going to be used mainly to find interesting links / snippets from people in my industry and people with similar interests to me and to post (hopefully) interesting links / snippets to my followers.

Google+ is going to be used for personal rants and to keep in touch with most of the people I know online, also for sharing interesting content I find from other people on Google+

Facebook is going to be used to keep in touch with friends who aren’t on Google+ and to maintain the Pages I administer on there.  There are also a couple of groups I want to be more active in on there, so I will maybe start doing that.

I think that makes sense.

By the way, did you know you can follow me on Twitter, add me on Google+ and friend me on Facebook? You do now!

Has anyone else put thought into what they post to what social network? Would love to hear your thoughts.

The site now redirects to this post, when the domain expires I will not be renewing it.

Google’s +1
Twitter’s Tweet
Facebook’s Like

All really easy to install, basically pick some options and copy and paste some code.

Job done!

• How to Protect Your WordPress Blog From Getting Hacked – Pretty self explanatory, unlike a lot of WordPress related posts, this isn’t just a list of plugins that are flavour of the month (although it does suggest some). An excellent read and essential if you have a WP blog.  I will definitely look into actioning some of the points. (via @designfollow).
• 5 WordPress Security Plugins To Check Hacked WordPress Blog – Along the same lines as the first post (although obviously just a list of 5 plugins to checkout) but it covers more about what to do if your server is compromised as opposed to stopping it from getting compromised.  Again, something I should really look at. (via @UCTweets).
• 40 Essential CSS Templates, Resources and Downloads – Not much to say about this, the title really sums it up, a fair bit of filler in the list but also some gems including a nice rule generator that will work as a shiv for IE when playing with CSS3 (via @designfollow)
• Essential JavaScript and jQuery design patterns – This is an article about a free ebook that I have just downloaded and skimmed through, at first glance it looks amazingly useful.  It explains many of the core design patterns and when to use them.  It also comes with printable materials. (via @elijahmanor)

The first talk was by Twitter‘s Raffi Kirkorian, he is the lead developer of the Twitter geospatial APIs.  I felt he delivered his content well and I enjoyed the presentation a lot.

I have done no work involving Geolocation, but from what Raffi was saying there is a lot of potential that can be unlocked without too much effort on the developers part.

He first of all gave a definition of location which is context plus relevancy, which was interesting for me because I had never really thought of location as anything other than a little bit of extra meta data for refining searches and categorising content.

We learned that with geolocation things like tweets and articles can become globally applicable but locally relevant.  Basically this means that whilst information such as “Belfast airport is closed due to ash clouds today” is globally applicable it is really only relevant to people who live in or wanted to travel to Belfast.

One of the examples used in the presentation was yaketee.com, this is a chat service based on location.  In my personal opinion the site serves only as a proof of concept because there are more effective ways to talk to people in your local community without going online and remembering a fairly odd sounding URL!  That being said it is an excellent proof of concept, very slick and with some excellent fallback measures.  You should check it out.

One of the issues raised by the talk was that when considering location we have to remember that people have different names for different things, an example given was language barrier where Rome and Roma are the same place.  I am guessing that from this we could also give the example of different groups of people referring to the same thing in different ways even in the same language, for example Lavery’s Bar is better known to the locals as Lav’s (or to some as just shite!).

Two examples given which would allow you to combat this are to use geolocation tables in the form of either WOEID and TwID.

Where On Earth Identifier is stable and language agnostic.

Twitter geoID is simple at the moment but getting better.

These can be accessed by passing in your longitude and latitude into the tables and getting back a unique code for that one place on earth.

Different ways were discussed to get someones location from their web browser, the two I have notes for are IP-Based location which is dead easy, is server side but not really that local so only useful for area/country and W3C Geolocation which is done in JavaScript and works in most internet browsers.

The last example of the day was fireeagle.yahoo.net this is a pretty cool service for updating your location around the web from one easy to use place.

To sum up, this was a really useful talk about something I had very little exposure to.  There are already people doing some really cool stuff with Geolocation but I think we have only scratched the surface.  Cheers to Raffi for giving it!