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It’s been a long time coming →

Posted on January 16, 2012 in General with 2 comments.

It can safely be said, that for the first time in history I have a personal website that doesn’t have a section which displays a “coming soon” sign on it. This website has been through many iterations in the past and every time it has never been complete. I’ve been working extremely hard over the [...]

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Back to blogging →

Posted on July 18, 2011 in General with 0 comments.

It’s been a long time since I last fired up the WordPress admin section of my blog, way too long in fact. Blogging is one of those things that if you don’t constantly remind and engage yourself in it, you eventually end up forgetting about it. A lot has gone down since my last blog [...]

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My new blog theme has gone live →

Posted on August 11, 2010 in General with 0 comments.

Over the past few weeks I have been working on a new custom theme for my blog and I have finally finished the first version and activated it. It is still a little rough around the edges and as time goes by I know I will be tinkering with and changing it quite a lot, [...]

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Welcome to my “new” blog →

Posted on July 18, 2010 in General with 0 comments.

Thanks for visiting. It’s been quite a while since I have blogged and I suppose, as they say, now is as good a time as any to get started again. I have decided to switch domains from my old iarematt.com back to mattgeri.com which I have owned for many years. The iarematt.com domain will still [...]

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Mail & Guardian Post – Temporarily Closed →

Posted on March 2, 2009 in General with 1 comment.

Update: *Sigh*, some people are really pathetic. This post has been removed for now, but will definitely probably be back soon once everything with the M&G is sorted out…

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I’ve joined GitHub →

Posted on January 28, 2009 in General with 0 comments.

Just a quick note to let fellow coders know that I have joined GitHub and you should follow me I haven’t put up any code yet but I have a few projects that are in desperate need of finishing and they will definitely go up once I have the final release versions done. I have [...]

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Some Ramblings On Blogging →

Posted on January 25, 2009 in General with 0 comments.

As I fully expected, my blogging journey so far this year has been full of new learning experiences. Mostly good experiences and some challenging ones. Something I wanted to touch on today is what having a “personal” blog means and why you should have one. I have done a lot of thinking about my blog [...]

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jQuery scrolling pagination plugin →

Posted on January 19, 2009 in General with 1 comment.

Pagination is a simple concept that can be executed in very many different ways. In some ways pagination is one of the most crucial parts of a website. It breaks your content up and helps visitors navigate your website easily. If it weren’t for pagination our blogs would probably be one very long page and [...]

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PHP code to check if a directory is empty →

Posted on January 14, 2009 in General with 9 comments.

While dealing with files and directories in PHP you will most likely at some point want to check if a folder/directory is empty. To do this, you need to write a script that does the check. There are two ways of doing this. The first is supported in PHP 4 and 5 only and the [...]

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Getting A Little More Technical →

Posted on January 14, 2009 in General with 2 comments.

As you probably know, I relaunched my blog on 1st of January and since then it has really started to take off. I am getting quite a decent amount of search engine traffic and the amount of direct traffic I am getting is also on the increase (which tells me people like my posts and [...]

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