Having just rewritten the platform behind this blog (Wicked Words), and given that the average visitor won't notice any change whatsoever, I felt like highlighting some of the new improved features – that most of you won't notice...
The Wicked Words project is something that I've been working on for a couple of years. It started off with me making a comment to a friend along the lines of "I could probably code you a simple blog.." and sort of steamrollered on from there. It's been under a stop-start process of development since then, has been used for my blog and a select handful of others. Over that time it's occasionally been a bit ambitious (luckily my coding skills eventually caught up) and has often been quite messy (ditto).
Apr 18th 2009 14:29 // Web Design // No comments
Aiming to get away from the bloat of Dreamweaver and the clunk of Zend Studio I’ve been exploring some alternative environments for my day-to-day PHP coding including NVu, Aptana IDE and PHP Designer.
After many years of using Dreamweaver MX as my primary frontend for web development I’ve learned that there are a few things I consistently require from a DE (Development Environment):
- Code highlighting;
- Easy ftp integration for uploading files;
- Ability to manage separate projects.
And that’s about it. It’s true that between Windows Explorer, Filezilla and Notepad++ I can easily perform all these tasks (and I make frequent use of all when making quick updates, or if I’m editing a single file) but the real key is to have everything bundled together so I rarely need to stray beyond the DE. Following is a summary of the advantages and disadvantages of each of the DEs I’ve tried.
Mar 24th 2009 15:43 // Web Design // No comments
A short rundown of why the site design has changed, and what to expect in the coming months from my, hopefully re-energised, blog
So, welcome back Ed Price Is Hungry. It's true that there's been not one update since 2009 dawned, and some of the blame for that has to lie at the feet of my previously uninspiring design. It had some pretty colours, but it didn't honestly represent the kind of image I wanted to get across.
This new look - which shall sensibly be named 'Ed Price' (though not after sporting journalist Ed Price) - comes a lot closer to, well, making me feel at home in my own blog. At first glance it *does* look a bit Twilight-y, and for that I apologise, but then again I don't claim to be striving for originality in my designs - just something that makes me feel good when I look at my own web page.
Mar 22nd 2009 20:57 // Diary // No comments
Whatever happened to Will Write For Beer?
Were you one of the two avid readers of Will Write For Beer? Did you come here by mistake? Are you the real Ed Price? For answers to all these questions and less carry on reading...
For the past year my Will Write For Beer blog has been read by nearly dozens of readers – well, almost a dozen readers… perhaps. In that time I’ve strenuously avoided updating whenever possible, tweaked the design until it looks almost exactly the same as it did a year ago and diligently scanned my Google Analytics account to double check how many times I’ve been visiting my own site.
Dec 17th 2008 12:55 // Miscilliness // No comments
Posting a multidimensional array
A brief tutorial (my first in fact) covering a simple method for posting a multidimensional array using an html form.
Posting arrays is a fact of life - by default every time you post anything from an html form it's posted as an array. It's your job to break it all down again when you process the form. After a while this becomes second nature and you forget that you're even dealing with an array in the first place.
Oct 13th 2008 13:14 // Web Design // 3 comments
A Doctor without celery is.. worth a thousand words?
In most people's lives there are things that matter, such as keeping healthy and paying the rent, and there are things that really matter. For a while now a small but, as is always the case, a vocal portion of the Doctor Who fanbase has been in uproar over what has come to be known as the *Celerygate* affair.
Aug 2nd 2008 12:43 // Miscilliness // No comments
Danny Boyle shoots for the stars with his ambitious sci-fi epic Sunshine but falls a little short
People often assume I'm a science fiction fan. That's not entirely the case.
It's true that I bow at the altar of certain science fiction classics (Alien and Blade Runner most prominently, but then again which cinephile doesn't?). I'm also a lifelong Doctor Who fan who thinks that the new series of Battlestar Galactica is one of the best things on TV at the moment. Then again, Doctor Who is one of the most popular programmes on British TV, so I'm hardly alone there, and Battlestar Galactica has been roundly praised by critics of all persuasions.
Adding further counterweight is the fact that I rarely read science fiction, probably like more films outside the science fiction genre than within in, and find that the larger share of science fiction television is generally unwatchable.
Jul 13th 2008 12:40 // Reviews // No comments
Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull
After almost 20 years one of the world’s favourite movie heroes returned to the screen. This time he has to face his deadliest enemy yet - the critics...
It's been a long period of returning franchises. Hollywood seems intent on feasting upon itself lately - an act of self-gorging which makes perfect sense given the way the business works. While the act of resurrecting a franchise is less shameful than Hollywood's recent addiction to remaking everything it can, it is potentially an even more hazardous affair. Everyone expects remakes of horror classics like The Fog and The Hitcher to be worthless so there's no love lost, but embark on a new chapter in a much-loved screen franchise and you'd better do it right.
The once mighty Alien and Predator franchises are reduced to direct-to-video status with this largely worthless exercise in making money from nothing
It is with some alarm that I realise how long ago it was that I first got hooked on the Alien franchise. Back then, of course, it was just the one film. A film that I was too young to see (I eventually caught up with it on its television premiere), but one which caught my imagination and had cinemagoers in a frenzy of horror and excitement.
H.R.Giger's unique design for the alien creature has made it the ultimate movie monster in many peoples' minds. A creature that not only terrifies on the screen, but is unsettling to even look at. This is part of the reason why the Alien franchise has lasted so long. The other part is the incredible foundation that Ridley Scott and James Cameron built - two strikingly different films, each equally influential and career-making.
Mar 4th 2008 12:27 // Reviews // No comments
Dan Simmons explores the scarier side of history in his pseudo-factual chiller The Terror
Dan Simmon's latest novel was recommended to me by a friend. He piqued my interested by making it sound a bit like The Thing, but with an historical setting. In the end it took me several months to actually track down a copy at my local library, but the book proved worthy of the added anticipation.
I've not read any of Simmons' previous works, so I had little in the way of expectations - other than the vague idea that, with its Thing-like subject matter, it might be an enjoyable, but pulpy horror yarn. As it turns out The Terror is an absorbing historical thriller with a supernatural subplot expertly weaved throughout.
Dec 28th 2007 12:13 // Reviews // No comments
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