Wildlife Assessment Check tool

Wildlife Assessment Check tool

This is a free online tool for householders and small to medium-scale developers who want to undertake a development project to check whether they will need expert ecological advice before submitting a planning application. A user can enter a development location using a map (either directly, or by place name/postcode or grid reference lookup). They then answer a number of context-sensitive […]

AWA Magazine: Building on online magazine archive

AWA Magazine: Building on online magazine archive

AWA: la revue de la femme noire was an independent magazine produced in Dakar, Senegal by a network of African women between 1964 and 1973. The magazine features poems, short stories, political reportage, and essays, alongside recipes, fashion, home-furnishings, and readers’ letters pages. It presents women’s lives as citizens, mothers, sisters, workers, and consumers against the global […]

Weather data from the cloud

Weather data from the cloud

Recently, a mobile app I was working on required a real time calculation to convert the pressure recorded in a submerged river sensor to a figure based on the ambient air pressure for that location. “You should be able to get that from the BBC, or the Met Office, I think.” I headed to the […]

WordPress: Automatically add child-posts

WordPress: Automatically add child-posts

In a recent project, a requirement of the WordPress site I was building was to automatically create child posts when adding a post of a certain type. It turns out that this is fairly easy using the wp_insert_post function, but there are a number of factors to take into consideration (not least not creating a new […]