I've been blogging on and off about my experiences and progress with dieting over on my diet blog. One of the things that I've also been doing is sharing recipes for the various things I've been eating. In order to display them "sanely" I opted for a Wordpress plugin called "Easy Recipe" mainly for the display. I wasn't as concerned with the rich snippets and microformat … [Read more...] about Automatically Generating Rich Snippets For Recipes
Website Traffic And Hacks
A couple of months ago one of the sites I run was hacked via a nasty hole in a plugin that it was using. It took quite a bit of work to find the source of the issue and resolve it once and for all. Once the hole had been plugged properly the traffic levels returned to normal. But it's only when you have a reasonable amount of data that you can really see how much impact … [Read more...] about Website Traffic And Hacks
Taking A Break
I'm on holidays since yesterday evening! I'll be heading off to Montenegro on Monday for about 10 days. Unfortunately it'll take me about two days to get there since the connections via Air France are pretty bad. So Monday I fly Dublin to Paris. Tuesday morning (early) I'll do Paris to Belgrade and then late afternoon I do Belgrade to Tivat. If everything goes … [Read more...] about Taking A Break
Holiday preparations
Ulster Bank Fiasco And Irish Humour
Ulster Bank, which is one of the main banks in Ireland, has had a major technical issue which has led to thousands of its customers being unable to access their money, pay bills, get their wages etc., etc. It's yet another example of why people shouldn't trust banks - assuming that there's anyone out there that still does .. But we're Irish, so we somehow manage to find a … [Read more...] about Ulster Bank Fiasco And Irish Humour