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WooThemes Soccer Team

jeffikus — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:37:15 +0000

We’ve been playing quite a bit of soccer at WooThemes since last year when we entered a soccer league in Cape Town. Last night we played in a 5 a side tournament, and although we didn’t get far, we still had a blast! The picture was taken by Mark Forrester’s wife, Xenia.

Get to know me

jeffikus — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:16:19 +0000

I was interviewed at work recently as part of a “Getting to know the Team” series. Check it out on the WooThemes site.

Coding at WooThemes

jeffikus — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:55:18 +0000

This week I upgraded our Listings directory theme at WooThemes from the Google Maps API V2 to V3 and I thought it would be pretty cool to show you what I actually do when I code.

The upgrade process took about an hour and a half of coding, testing, and deploying. And for those wondering, I’m coding in Coda, and the video was created using Screenflow.

And for those wondering about the music, it’s one of my favorite pieces recorded by JerryC called Canon Rock.

Update: the video was featured on WPCandy.

A New Coat of Paint

jeffikus — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 07:52:29 +0000

I’ve been saying I’ve been wanting to put up a new design for my blog for quite a while now, but as it happened I just never got around to it so last night I decided enough was enough, so here it is – the new Jeffikus.com It’s based on Elefolio, which makes sense seeing as I work at WooThemes! And I figured it was about time that the Tumblog plugin author starts actually using the Tumblog plugin!!! Kinda cool to use your own code for yourself. I plan on making a couple of design improvements, starting with my logo. Any thoughts or suggestions?

More Snow Photos

jeffikus — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:46:11 +0000

Some more photos from our Woothemes adventure in Austria :

Austria Woothemes Trip

jeffikus — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:09:27 +0000

So…I haven’t posted for a while, but here I am in the snow in Austria on holiday with the Woothemes crew! Check out more of our adventures at the Woo on the Slopes site. For now, here’s a pic or 2

WordPress JQuery Accordion

jeffikus — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:11:23 +0000

So I’ve been tinkering with JQuery this weekend and have built a function for WordPress to display a JQuery accordion of a certain number of posts from a certain category – Title and Excerpt details.
It also can be used across both pages and posts using a shortcode.
Update – I have built a WordPress plugin to run this function and shortcode, and have created its own page here for download and instructions.

Saturday Golfing

jeffikus — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:51:37 +0000

So I finally got my game of golf in! Went with a good friend of mine, Kevin Abbott, to the short course in Durbanville at Wagners. It was interesting to say the least…with both of us realizing we haven’t played for such a long time! Needless to say…a score of 40 on a par 3 course was the end result!

Awesome LAN

jeffikus — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:21:23 +0000

What a great LAN I went to recently, hosted by Keane Harvey, had a great time playing Lord of the Rings Battle for Middle Earth 2, Counterstrike and Trackmania. But one of the coolest things was checking out Keane’s uber screen – Trackmania was amazing on it!
Check out some of the pic’s…

Brothers Streep

jeffikus — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:44:22 +0000

Wow..after a weekend and half a week of being off sick, I thought I’d post something random and cool that features a mate of mine – Hugh Lashbrooke follow him on twitter @hlashbrooke.

He built a site for a local South African band called the Brothers Streep and it got featured on a british talk show called the Graham Norton Show. Reason it got featured is that the band wrote a song about Anna Paquin and the show had her on and played the song to her!! Great stuff…also awesome for Hugh as the site was shown on live TV