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<h2>Leaving Nomensa, Joining Precedent</h2>
<p class="posted">20th April 2013</p>
<p>Yesterday was my last day working at <a href="http://www.nomensa.com" title="Nomensa">Nomensa</a>. Next week, I'll be starting as a Senior Developer at <a href="http://www.precedent.co.uk" title="Precedent">Precedent</a>.</p>
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<h2>The Quickest way to Install Sublime Text 2 in Ubuntu</h2>
<p class="posted">2nd March 2013</p>
<p>After reading numerous blog posts about how to install <a href="http://www.sublimetext.com/2" title="Sublime Text 2">Sublime Text 2</a> in <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/2" title="Ubuntu">Ubuntu</a>, this is definitely the quickest way!</p>
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<h2>Creating and using custom tokens in Drupal 7</h2>
<p class="posted">16th February 2013</p>
<p>This post outlines the steps required to create your own custom tokens in Drupal.</p>
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<h2>Checking if a user is logged into Drupal (the right way)</h2>
<p class="posted">9th January 2013</p>
<p>I see this regularly when working on Drupal sites when someone wants to check whether the current user is logged in to Drupal (authenticated) or not (anonymous).</p>
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<h2>How to use SASS and Compass in Drupal 7 using Sassy</h2>
<p class="posted">6th December 2012</p>
<p>I've recently started using <a href="http://sass-lang.com">SASS</a> rather than LESS to do my CSS preprocessing - namely due to its integration with <a href="http://compass-style.org">Compass</a> and it's built-in CSS3 mixins. Here are three modules that provide the ability to use SASS within Drupal.</p>
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<h2>Open Sublime Text 2 from the Mac OS X Command Line</h2>
<p class="posted">17th November 2012</p>
<p>How to open Sublime Text from the command line.</p>
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<h2>Accessible Bristol site launched</h2>
<p class="posted">15th November 2012</p>
<p>I'm happy to announce that the <a href="http://www.accessiblebristol.org.uk">Accessible Bristol</a> website was launched this week, on Drupal 7.</p>
<p>The site has been developed over the past few months, and uses the <a href="http://drupal.org/project/user_relationships">User Relationships</a> and <a href="http://drupal.org/project/privatemsg">Privatemsg</a> modules to provide a community-based platform where people with an interest in accessibility can register and network with each other.</p>
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<h2>My Sublime Text 2 settings</h2>
<p class="posted">25th October 2012</p>
<p><a href="http://www.sublimetext.com/2">Sublime Text 2</a> has been my text editor of choice for the past few months, and I use it at home, in work, and on any virtual machines that I run. So rather than having to manually re-enter my settings each time, I thought that I'd document them here for future reference.</p>
<p>These preferences ensure that the code is compliant with <a href="http://drupal.org/coding-standards" title="Drupal coding standards on Drupal.org">Drupal coding standards</a> - using two spaces instead of a tab, no trailing whitespace, blank line at the end of a file etc.</p>
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<h2>Reflections on speaking at UnifiedDiff</h2>
<p class="posted">6th September 2012</p>
<p>Yesterday evening I went along and spoke at the <a href="http://www.unifieddiff.co.uk">UnifiedDiff meetup</a> in Cardiff, having offered previously to do a presentation providing an introduction to Drupal.</p>
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<h2>Display a Custom Menu in a Drupal 7 Theme Template File</h2>
<p class="posted">18th August 2012</p>
<p>For reference, this is the code needed to display a menu in a Drupal 7 template file, including the navigation ARIA role.</p>
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