What if Facebook was as open as Linux?

It all started with one simple thought, “I like the way that Facebook keeps me in touch with my friends, but I don’t like that it is a multi-million dollar, commercial business. Surely there must be another way?”

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RSS feeds per user in Wordpress

Googled for a while expecting to find some plugin to do this, but no luck. So here’s a quick hack;

Open up /wp-includes/feed-rss2.php and at about line 35, after where it starts the while() loop, add;

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wNOP no longer maintained

Largely because I am no longer a Puppy user (read this for an explanation) I will no longer be actively developing wNOP :(

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Why I left Puppy Linux

As some of you may know I am, albeit to a lesser extent now, a huge fan of Puppy Linux and I was, up until last October, actively involved in the community. So why the change of heart?

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Nine to Five (thirty)

So I got a job working for a local web development company called 2bebrave, they’re a fairly new company and I make the numbers up to 3. We do all the usual stuff; design, hosting, programming, SEO and so on, I would of course highly recommend our services. Our offices are at the Create Centre, where to rent office space the company needs to have certain green/environmental/ethical credentials, so the atmosphere there is pretty cosy and laid back, which is nice.

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The future of tombh

Through the Prince’s Trust I have been assigned a mentor to help me with my business, his name is Jimi Ogunnusi, managing director of BQM Consulting. He’s a very nice man and I feel really privileged to be able to share time with him. After our first meeting he suggested I write down my future expectations, for 12 months time and 5 years time, so for the benefit of posterity here’s what I’ve said;

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The Prince's Trust

A few months ago I got involved with the Prince’s Trust. I’ve been hearing about them for years from various sources, then one day I visited their website, just to find a bit more about them, and the next thing I knew I was being showered with help and support with my business!

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HTML Parsing and DIY RSS feeds

A PHP library that I think more people should know about is SC Chen’s Simple HTML DOM Parser.

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Just a site that's caught my eye

Well a site that has caught my interest recently in terms of design is Skype’s. Of course, I’m in to simplicity, web standards and whatnot and I think Skype’s website is a great example of modern technical standards integrated with a cool contemporary design.

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Simplate — a very simple PHP templating system

I have designed a very simple PHP templating system called Simplate, you can download it from here (edit: and you can view a demo of it here). Instructions on how to use it are contained within the Readme.txt file.

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