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Have you ever had an good idea that you've started to work on and develop, only for someone to do exactly what you've done (but better) as soon as you started? No? Well you should try it, it's pretty humbling. I was working on a Wordpress Theme about two months ago, and I had to make some changes from the online theme editor, and I was thinking 'wouldn't it be great to get some syntax highlighting on this?!'. Just as I was starting, Wordpress 2.8 came out, and they did a mighty fine job of what I wanted to do, but just a little bit better. Not only is there now syntax highlighting but also a complete PHP and Wordpress function look-up. I am overwhelmed. One less plugin for me to worry about at least!

The lack of web-related articles can be explained by the fact I haven't done too much with the web recently. The last few articles were a helpful means of avoiding revision, and after exams finished I didn't really an excuse to be a hermit all day. But I have done a few exciting web-related activites recently. I had some training for my new job with the Kent Uni Web Team come September, including looking at the bug ticketing system Remedy, and their templating system for the university's many, many websites. Turns out there is no content managment either, so I'll probably be doing all the little changes.

The other tool I've been messing around with is the beta of the Google Analytics API for a little job a friend's company has me working on. The sheer robustness of the system and the amount of things you can look at frankly ridiculous, but I'm having fun with it at the moment. Expect an article on this in the future when I learn some of the more interesting queries you can run.