David Ogilo

One of the challenges I set myself before arriving in Vietnam was to make the journey to the most northern part of the country. And that place is Đồng Văn in the Hà Giang which shares its border with China. Along the way, I explored a few cities in the southern, central, and northern regions. My journey started in the coastal city of Nha Trang. I only spent a day there exploring its surrounding islands. The city is known for its beaches, resorts and Russian guests. I decided to catch a night sleeper bus that same day and made my…

Looking back on the weeks spent here in Ho Chi Minh and thinking of how I left Sydney for a city I knew nothing of, puts a smile on my face. To be honest, before I arrived I didn’t do any research about the people nor culture, maybe being lazy to read my guidebook might have played a part. But I’m glad I didn’t. I have enjoyed embracing the people and culture in my own way. Spending time with the people of the city and experiencing a different way of living has been a joy! My highlight so far was…

I believe the act of being open minded to keep learning is good. It enables you to grow as a person and even find things you didn’t know about yourself or what your potentials are. Which in itself, is very exciting! I have come witness to this whilst here in Vietnam. The people I have met, understanding their stories, way of living and aspirations, I feel I can learn from them and I also feel a sense of inspiration and determination to follow my own path in life. For example seeing the children’s courage and will at the blind centre…

I am embarking on something that has been on my mind for quite a while… My journey through life has been an interesting one and I won’t change any moment of it. But a few months ago I felt something missing, even though I had a comfortable lifestyle, I just didn’t feel happy within myself. So I thought to myself, maybe a change of lifestyle will do me some good. In doing so, I have grown as a person not only the way I thought about things but also having a different perspective on life. Which leads me to what…

Five days ago I was in London not expecting to be somewhere so different now, but thanks to Sam we’re sitting by the pool with the amazing landscape of the Atlas Mountains in front of us. Our journey here started off in Marrakech.

Marrakech

The city of Marrakech is so different to anywhere I’ve been before – the people, the culture, and the food. Walking around here does feel like you’re in an Arabian city in the Sahara with a lot of markets (souks) and…

I’ve always been eager to visit Australia after hearing a lot about its laid-back and friendly lifestyle. Our plan was to visit the east coast, including Tasmania in 3 weeks. The trip started off in Melbourne.

Melbourne

We arrived early in the morning, had a rest and headed out the next day to explore. This city is definitely an arty one, with loads of graffiti and …

After my last photography workshop, I was eager to go on my next one. This time – Glencoe, with David Ward and Phil Malpas. My aim for this tour was to try and improve my creativity and find ways of taking simplistic photographs.

DAY 1

I arrived in Glencoe on Monday, where I meet the rest of the group. Later on that evening David gave a wonderful talk about creativity, composition and different ways we can improve our craft. What was…

In this article I’ll show you how to create and run unit tests on your plugins using PHPUnit as the¬†framework. I’ll also be highlighting the importance of Test Driven Development.

WHY TDD?

There are some developers out there who are not fans of writing unit tests to test their code for bugs etc, but I’m not one of them. On the contrary I always write tests for my code. There are so many instances where these tests have picked up bugs. Not only that, writing tests has also made my code more efficient and in turn made me a better…

For some odd reason, there isn’t an option to add stickies to custom post types in WordPress. In this article I’ll show you how easy is it to add this with some PHP/JS code.

THE SCRIPT

The code below adds the option to make a custom post a sticky or not. If the sticky checkbox isn’t in the DOM, then it adds it in…

This week I was taking part in a photography tour around The Lake District, hosted by Light and Land leaders – Phil Malpas and Clive Minnitt.

Going on a photography tour has always been something I have wanted to do ever since I took up “drawing with light” as a hobby, so I was really pleased when Sam booked me this tour as a birthday gift. I was both excited and nervous about how things would turn out as I didn’t know what to expect – but boy was the tour awesome!

DAY 1

I arrived in The Lake District on Tuesday evening and meet up with the rest of the group. Both Clive and Phil introduced themselves and talked briefly about the format of the…