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Display your FourSquare updates on your website

leon — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:25:32 +0000

I recently made a few small changes to my personal website, including the addition of my most recent FourSquare check in’s. This post is a quick write up to show you how I did it for FourSquare, but this technique (…)

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Digital Birmingham – Getting the most from Web 2.0 for your business

leon — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:24:00 +0000

I recently gave a quick talk at a Digital Birmingham (@digibrum) Seminar focused on enabling businesses to get the most from web 2.0. In my presentation I talked about how making your brand and data as easily to access as (…)

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FTP – what its all about

leon — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:36:02 +0000

To kick off my first post in a series i’m calling Simples, I will explain in simple terms what FTP is and how you can use it. FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol and is a way to exchange files over (…)

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Don’t know your FTP from your PHP? Enter Simples

leon — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:58:15 +0000

The web world is full of acronyms and abbreviations, some of which are baffling even to the most seasoned professionals. Do you hear terms such as FTP, PHP, HTML or MySQL thrown around and have know idea what they are? (…)

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Essential tools for Web Dev/Design on a Mac

leon — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 09:48:21 +0000

It’s no suprise – i’m a BIG Apple fan. I own an iPhone, iMac, MacBook and Apple TV. It’s not just the design and aesthetics that I love but the whole UI and user experience aswell as the great software (…)

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Update 2 – Last.fm/Spotify mashup

leon — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:16:00 +0000

Here is the video of the mashup in action. I’m thinking up a new idea using the Last.fm api that will hopefully work better. As this was just a proof of concept it won’t be released any time soon.

Another Last.fm/Spotify mashup

leon — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 10:55:23 +0000

A month or so ago I hacked the last.fm for wordpress plugin to allow for integration with Spotify. The basic idea was that the plugin would pull in your recently played tracks and then allow users to open those tracks (…)

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Google Apps Status Dashboard

leon — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:07:39 +0000

After changing my domain hosting to Dreamhost, I also set up Google Apps for my Mail and Calendar services. So far the service has been brilliant and I didn’t seem to notice any problems after Google’s recent outage. In response (…)

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Last.fm/Spotify WordPress Widget

leon — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:02:16 +0000

I have created the WordPress widget that displays recent tracks from last.fm with the ability to open the tracks in Spotify. Read more and check it out here - http://thisisleon.co.uk/plugins/ Hope you like it. Any feedback add them to the comments (…)

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Add Spotify to WordPress

leon — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:38:06 +0000

I have hacked the Last.fm for WordPress plugin from here to search Spotify. At present I don’t plan to release the plugin but will do shortly after I have tidied up the code. You can test it out by firstly (…)

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