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Jim Bennett

Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft, Xamarin Certified Developer, author of Xamarin In Action, blogger, speaker, father and lover of beer, whisky and Thai food. Opinions are my own.

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FauxGhost - a clean, responsive Ghost theme

Featured Jim Bennett 13 Sep 2014 Technology, blog, ghost, ghostion, theme, technology, FauxGhost

This blog, like many others coming out recently, uses the Ghost blogging platform. This is a really nice, simple blogging platform with cheap hosting, built by some super smart people. The theme support for Ghost is excellent with loads of good themes available (some for money, some open source), and really great documentation on how to create you…

Favicons

Featured Jim Bennett 29 Jul 2014 Technology, ghost, apple, favicon, theme, ipad, iphone

After changing my avatars, I decided to update my Ghost blog to show my new avatar as the icon in the browser/bookmarks and springboard icon on iPhones/iPads. Coming at this with limited HTML/Web experience I had no idea where to start, so thought I'd write this as a guid to help anyone else wanting to do the same thing. What you need is called a F…

What to do when you're stuck inside.

Featured Jim Bennett 26 May 2014 Technology, blog, ghost, disqus, ghostion, desk, exercise ball, surface

It's a glorious day here, a perfect day to take my wife and daughter to the beach. Unfortunately we currently live in Bermuda, an island paradise with stunning beaches and clean water. Why is this unfortunate? Because the country is so badly run. Today is Bermuda day, and they are celebrating by closing one of the main roads for a half marathon.…