Andy Sharman's www.udjamaflip.com

How to setup a blog...

Monday, 28 September 2009 07:10

As most of the traffic knows coming to this site, they have read in the papers about my story of taking on a giant company with my own blogging and beating them in Google for certain search terms in order get some attention from them to get my complaint resolved. Although a website like this does take time, and costs money I am going to explain two ways of creating a blog firstly in this post a simple way of setting up a free blog, and then later how to create a more advanced blog and the benefits of software choices.

David and Goliath

Thursday, 17 September 2009 21:27

This is a term that has been thrown around a lot when describing the articles about me, my blog and my battle against Thomson over my holiday to Tunisia. It seems that I am not the only person out there, and I do believe Thomson to be sorry now they realised the steam roller of fame this story has received this week. They have invited me down to them to dicuss how to improve their customer services and I would like you (the readers) to tell me what you think needs to be done!

Thomson Complaint - Resolved, but...how?

Monday, 07 September 2009 07:27

During my complaint about my horrible Thomson Tunisia holiday, I wrote on my blog displaying how angry I was about the service I received and not only that, but when I complained I was completely ignored. Just prior to me going away to Spain I received the cheque from Thomson to recompense me for my horrible Thomson holiday. Although this was an amicable amount, it was not what I deemed to be a credible amount, and as such I feel someone who doesn't go through the lengths I did to get get noticed by their company will probably receive nothing.

La Tomatina Information

Monday, 31 August 2009 18:07

Just returning from Spain I thought I would post some information about La Tomatina which is a tomato fight festival in a small town called Bunol near Valencia. La Tomatina is quite a young tradition in Spain, but is very popular with backpackers and tourists. I went this year for the second time and spoke to a few people on the way there and back and noticed a lot of La Tomatina go-ers found many blog posts inaccurate in information about the festival.

Joomla! module and templateDetails XML file creator

Tuesday, 11 August 2009 07:26

As any Joomla! developer will know, its great fun creating the template/module/plugin or component but not fun having to manually write that list of files into the xml file afterwards! Here is a solution, the module above will simply let you upload a .zip (without your .xml file and then it will parse through the .zip and then output some clean XML file list for you automatically.

Joomla sociable and sharethis module

Saturday, 08 August 2009 14:52

Obviously on blogs it is a very important factor of SEO, marketting and advertisement in the modern day that you have such plugins, components or modules which allow your websites users to easily share a favourite link on your website with their friends on their favourite social network such as facebook, linkedin, twitter, etc etc...

Joomla! 1.6 Alpha release

Saturday, 01 August 2009 17:53

As you all know I have done quite a bit of Joomla! development as well as Wordpress and a bit of Drupal and during so I have made quite a few Joomla! components, and modules including a released version of my Joomla! flickr feed which has proved very popular.

Looping through variables using concatenation with PHP

Saturday, 25 July 2009 14:22

Recently a friend was given the task of ordering a group of variables that would be similiar to this:

Group of ordered PHP variables
1 2 3 4	$var1 = 10; $var2 = 20; $var3 = 30; $var4 = 40

More on my horrible Thomson holiday to Tunisia - The excursions

Friday, 17 July 2009 12:47

Well as you all know I have already blogged about the horrendous Thomson trip to Tunisia I posted about before. I have already explained about the lies the travel agent in Thomson travel agents in Leicester city centre told myself and my girlfriend about the location, and holiday. I thought I would add a bit more detail about the resort, and the excursions.

New design, and new forum

Sunday, 12 July 2009 16:18

The past week has been quite rushed with the release of the Joomla! flickr feed module with jquery, and the influx of hits I seem to be getting due to its popularity I decided that I should give the sites users something a bit easier to navigate around, and something a bit more eye-catching. As well as that a better way of providing support on the snippets and downloads I have provided.

Tutorials