Posts by Peter Wilson
- 21 Dec
by Peter Wilson
No commentsConfirming a caller’s identity
The ATO called me last week and asked for my middle name and date of birth to confirm my identity. I told the operator that I wasn’t in the habit of giving out my personal details to incoming callers.
- 4 Dec
by Peter Wilson
No comments10 Ways to Draw Traffic to Your Site
Once you’ve started your site, your blog, or real time web app, there’s no point publishing and just hoping people will come.
- 27 Nov
by Peter Wilson
1 commentNever too old
At 94, my granddad decided to get a computer and onto the internet.
Dedicated to R Feltscheer, 1-1-1912 – 22-11-2009.
- 20 Nov
by Peter Wilson
No commentsCraig McLachlan, Who Knew?
This week, Boxcutters featured Craig McLachlan as their guest, in the process providing a great example of the advantages of podcasting.
- 12 Nov
by Peter Wilson
No commentsCharging for themes? Do the right thing!
Of all the Wordpress functions, I think wp_register_script, wp_register_style, wp_enqueue_script, and, wp_enqueue_style are the most elegant.
- 6 Nov
by Peter Wilson
No commentsPartying like it's 1999
Within a couple of months of writing that I prefered my own base JavaScript file to an exisiting framework, I was a convert to jQuery. Why the turnaround?
- 30 Oct
by Peter Wilson
No commentsGenesis of a Giant
Deciding to start Soupgiant resulted from a simple conversation – actually two simple conversations.
- 23 Oct
by Peter Wilson
No commentsHow to get 4.3 stars for customer service!
I’m about to give a positive review to Soupgiant’s host, QuadraHosting, due to their customer service, despite some major technical problems in recent months. This leads to one question: Am I being too nice?
- 14 Aug
by Peter Wilson
3 commentsIncluding Wordpress’s comment-reply.js (the right way)
Since threaded comments were enabled in Wordpress 2.7, most themes check if the visitor is browsing either a page or a post and adds the JavaScript required for threaded comments if they are.
I prefer a slight variation
- 14 Apr
by Peter Wilson
No commentsCareer Stats: Shane Warne the Musical (.com.au)
Very generously, the producers of Shane Warne the Musical have given me access to their website stats for the purposes of this post.