Nick Hayward

I’ve been going to freeCodeCamp in Nottingham for the last few months, with the local meets kindly organised by Will White. While I’ve got HTML/CSS and jQuery covered from the day job, I want to learn vanilla Javascript and then React Native so I can make an app I’ve got an idea for. freeCodeCamp Nottingham […]

I’ve been learning some new development skills recently and going to hackathons, meetups etc to try new things out. There have been some great talks and some interesting new technologies. There’s an increasing call for everyone to learn at least the basics of programming, which is awesome. However a frustrating and repeated experience is trying […]

I spent a month in Portugal in July 2017, here are my Lisbon digital nomad tips including travel, accommodation, cafes and co-working spaces. Travel TAP were great – good price, fresh looking plane and a free inflight snack. Sketchy landing at Lisbon due to crosswinds! The Metro is cheap and easy, the red line runs […]

Love them or hate them, sliders appear on many websites. Many clients ask for them so we use them a lot on the WordPress sites we build. Using the Advanced Custom Fields Repeater field, we can make the banners editable for clients too. All good, aside from the file size of using multiple large images. […]

I’ve just been banging my head against the desk trying to install the Facebook Pixel code to WHMCS 7 manually. I want to track hosting order completion to see how well Facebook ads convert. The problem Adding the Facebook pixel code to header.tpl hosed the WHMCS front end template. The fix WHMCS templates need the […]

I’m trying the Canaries for this Spring’s trip as SE Asia was too hot and humid for me and the Canaries are only a few hours flight from the UK. I heard great things about Las Palmas so this is the first stop. Here are some tips for digital nomads and remote workers. Flight & Transport […]