About Me

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Where shall I start? It's best to begin at the beginning and go on till I come to the end: then stop.

1997 was my first year at university. There, I used the World Wide Web for the first time. The 20th century web was a shallow experience...

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About this project

This website follows the “mobile first responsive design” philosophy.

The starting points were elements of Andy Clarke's 320 & Up and Mobile Boilerplate and from there I turned it up to 11; including writing a new script, SVG Plug, as a solution for the lack of native support for Scalable Vector Graphics in a number of popular browsers.

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Contact Me

Please get in contact for coding enquiries. You'll find a more thorough CV on my stackoverlow Careers 2.0 profile

Events

Redbridge College Course:
Foundation Internet Marketing

Speakers: Andy Walpole and Rob Keating

Are you starting a business or already running a business? Are you frustrated that your competitors outrank you on Google? If you are unhappy with your current online marketing or just want to find out more come along to our workshop. It has been designed for small to medium-sized businesses and is delivered by two industry experts. The aim of this two hour workshop is to teach you both the theory and practice of some key aspects of online marketing.

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Projects

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Blog

The blog of London-based web coder Andy Walpole. Covers both front and backend development.
Using __autoload() in your Object Orientated Wordpress plugin
March 14th, 2013

These days autoloading PHP classes is the industry standard and if you write your plugins using Object Oriented code then you should look to using it too.

A quick way to add a URL redirect feature to Wordpress categories
March 5th, 2013

My last job at a large multi-national company before my contract expired was to code their Russian website. A major problem that their Russian team faced was not having the resources to translate everything on the English language website or to be able to keep abreast of updates if the content on the English language website changed.

A PHP class to create a Wordpress custom post type with dynamic metaboxes
February 19th, 2013

On a theme I have been working on there was the need to create dynamic metaboxes for a basic jobs listing section. The listing page had four different fields for every job: Title, description, location and date. The user needed the ability to add, edit or delete jobs.

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Twitter

andywalpole

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Music, politics and tech. Coder: HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob. London Town, kind of. http://andywalpole.me/

7:24, March 17th, 2013

It's simply impossible for me to layin after 7

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GitHub

TCotton pushed to master at TCotton/CodeSharp

8:54, March 14th, 2013

March 14, 2013 TCotton pushed to master at TCotton/CodeSharp 836ca6d Mass deletion and inclusion of new files - total code rewrite

TCotton pushed to master at TCotton/Wordpress-plugin-Affiliate-Hoover

13:04, March 13th, 2013

March 13, 2013 TCotton pushed to master at TCotton/Wordpress-plugin-Affiliate-Hoover c228d63 added __autoload() and changed instructions.php

TCotton pushed to master at TCotton/Wordpress-plugin-Affiliate-Hoover

7:46, March 13th, 2013

March 13, 2013 TCotton pushed to master at TCotton/Wordpress-plugin-Affiliate-Hoover 40fedb1 added comments on Wordpress functions used

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Forrst

AndyW

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Coder from the pit bull infested Essex / London border lowlands.

Goals for 2013: expanding the features of my popular Wordpress plugin Affiliate Hoover, gaining the PHP Zend Engineer Certificate, using SASS more for CSS projects, and using both underscore and backbone JavaScript utilities more. Living life to the full.

Avante!

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