A few days ago, a long post about speeding up WooCommerce went live @ the Silicon Dales website. Check it out at the link if you’re interested in some ways in which you can get some speed gains for a WooCommerce store (or WordPress site for that matter).
Blog Posts
This is the “blog posts” category, it is for blog posts which are generic in nature and not specifically about anything that can legitimately be categorised, so pretty much, most items that are published.
It will take as long as it takes
In a recent Slack chat with some fellow developers, there were certain tasks (like server moves encompassing upgrades to PHP 7, for example) which are not easy to specify in terms of how long the task may take.
Carabao Cup Highlights 19/20
Last night saw some great action in the EFL Cup, so I collected together the highlights.
UPDATE: see the 2019/20 EFL Cup Quarter Final Highlights here.
Video Highlights – Round of 16
Chelsea v Man Utd
Man Utd overcame Chelsea by an odd goal after a terrific free kick by Marcus Rashford sealed the win.
Complete 2019 New Year’s Honours List
The 2019 New Year’s Honours List was published today, on 29 December 2019, and in case you wanted to see the full list, without it being in a PDF, I’ve published it below – minus all the ads and other slowness that mainstream news media will surround their honours list content with.
Navigating the Complete List:
This list is complete and searchable – for example, if you are on a desktop or laptop computer, hit CTRL + F and then type in a county or city (say “North Yorkshire” or “London”) or a surname (like “Wilkinson”) and you can then flip through the relevant items. Alternatively, there’s a table of contents so you can jump to the main sections of honours.
I was able to post this really quickly for the benefit of the world because I have the best broadband in Britain.
Man Utd finally showing old signs of class under Solskjaer
It has been a good year for sports fans in the North West of England in particular, as we’ve been a little spoiled with our area’s sports men and women showing World Class levels of performance, so it was nice to see sleeping giants at Mancester United showing signs of recovery under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer during the Christmas period.
Liverpool v Man City Highlights (3-1)
Liverpool consolidated their position at the top of the 2019/20 Premier League on Sunday 10th November 2019, with an impressive 3-1 win over holding Champs, Manchester City at their Anfield home.
Learn Shopify SEO
My friend and Silicon Dales colleague, Jono Farrington, has made a terrific course for people looking to learn all about Shopify SEO.
Bugzy Malone finally releases the track we knew he was capable of
I’ve been following Bugzy Malone for a few years now, and to be honest, I wasn’t sure if his raw talent for real talk was going to work out for him in the mainstream music industry. Which is a shame, because, well. 0161.
It was acceptable in the 80s
In the wake of charges being raised in 2017 relating to the Hillsborough disaster of 1989, it may be time to revisit other awful things that happened in the 1980s that were covered up and swept under the carpet?