Extra Jetpack!
So recently I’ve been mucking about with JetPack, for various bits and pieces. Mainly the first thing done is just to make the sharing buttons appear above and below a post. But from browsing the...
View ArticleMy CV and some other Updates
Just a quick post to say hello. I’ve updated my CV and tidied it up a little. So any feedback on it would be useful! (Drop Me a Line rather than a Comment please) Link in the SideBar on the right! I...
View ArticleLinkDAQ
From the Desk of Dom “The Hodge” Hodgson comes something he built in a day, LinkDAQ. Like the old BBC Celebdaq, its a “Stock” Trading Game, but instead of trading stocks and shares, you are trading...
View ArticleUsing Zombaio with WordPress, A WordPress Plugin
Building on my work at Your Members, specifically the Adult Payment Gateway Zombaio, I’ve finally gotten around to building a better “recommended WordPress Plugin”. As the one on Zombaio’s site is...
View ArticleWriting PHP Code to Standard
So with the release of AWS SDK Version 2, I’ve been inspired a little to write better PHP Code, at least in stuff I have on my GitHub. The new SDK is written to match the PHP Framework Interop Group...
View ArticleFun with WP.me and Twitter Cards
I was trying to figure out why my Twitter Cards weren’t working when I was tinkering with someone else’s WordPress install. Turns out at some point Twitter decided to follow the WP.me redirect and grab...
View ArticleMagento – The missing view type!
Magento has four options when it comes to display products on your e-commerce website: Not Visible Individually Catalog Search Catalog, Search Now, normally that about covers most use cases. But if you...
View ArticleMac, OBS and Streaming Audio Right
OBS has for some time been working on it’s new version of OBS which is called OBS studio, and is cross platform. Finally we are free from having to faff about with WireCast, we can now just plug and...
View ArticleMagento – Products showing in the wrong category
I came across something odd a while back, and until recently not had time to investigate the issue. Products were showing up in categories that they were not explicitly in. In summary, when you reindex...
View ArticlePHP5.6+ cURL and file uploads
Came across something odd today, and thought I’d condense down my Tweets on the subject into a blog post. Hmm I have a PHP cURL that won't post a file with @ odd… Need to investigate later… — Barry...
View ArticleGoogle oAuth and offline access
Been doing a lot of various stuff and things for CohhCarnage and some of that stuff has involved building an achievements tracking system for the website. One of those achievements, is for YouTube...
View ArticleKRAKEN IS DEAD long live Helix!
Last week finally announced the deprecation data for Kraken also know as v5 Twitch’s legacy API. You can find the details of which over on the Twitch Blog or TwitchDev’s Twitter at For many Developers...
View ArticleLatest Twitch Extension Release: IGDB.com Game Information
This will be the first post in a two/three parter on this extension since it also serves as a good example on how to utilise a number of Twitch and IGDB products/API’s to achieve the end solution! But...
View ArticleTwitch’s Extension CSP is changing!
Well it looks like Twitch is updating the rules around extensions! It’s a good change even if I do need do an update to pretty much EVERY single Extension I run…. You can read the details on the change...
View ArticleTwitch Extensions Part 6 – Dev Environment Updates – Content Security Policy!
In part 5 we wrote about a suitable testing platform for building your extensions on, essentially we create a static content server, that mimics the Twitch CDN for testing with. Twitch Announced on the...
View ArticleDEATH TO KRAKEN
Todays the day! Twitch’s Kraken API gets turned off in checks watch just over three hours! I know I’m just about ready, but if you are not, and you already missed the shutdown test windows, heres some...
View ArticleTwitch Extension Developer Tools
Around the time that Kraken was dying, I was doing something (I forget what, probably bits products), and found that the Twitch Developer Rig was totally hosed, since it was calling Kraken and hadn’t...
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