WordCamp UK is an informal gathering of WordPress bloggers, podcasters, designers and developers based in the United Kingdom. The two day event is being held at The Studio in Birmingham on Saturday and Sunday 19-20 July 2008.
Tickets are still available and cost £35 from EventBrite. Obviously you’ll need to get to Birmingham, which from London will cost you about £35 funnily. Oh, and you’ll need somewhere to crash, so allow for a hotel room.
I am lucky enough to have all my tickets and I can’t wait. I’ll take notes and post some stuff here when I get back.
For more information visit the WordCamp UK site and Tony Scott’s WordCamp Wiki.
Posted July 15th, 2008 by acansick | In category Online | No Comments yet
You may have heard that Microsoft will be launching a new version of Internet Explorer sometime this year.
First off Microsoft have not confirmed a release date for Internet Explorer 8. They have released beta 1 (a testing version for developers) but this is nowhere near what the final release will be.
Do I need to do anything to my websites to prepare for IE8?
At the moment, no. There is absolutely no reason to change any of your code because of the beta release. If you were to install IE8 Beta and hack your website code to work on it, when the final release is shipped the code base in the browser will have changed and all your efforts will be wasted.
However, there is one new feature in IE8 that allows web developers to tell the browser to render the website using a previous version of Internet Explorer (IE6, IE7). This is one way to protect how your website will display. All you will need to do is add a simple META tag on every page of your website telling IE8 to render in IE7 for example.
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7" />
This shouldn’t take more than 5 minutes to accomplish. Provided you are using a template based content management system (CMS).
Posted May 12th, 2008 by acansick | In category Online | No Comments yet