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Oli Wood is the former CTO at Wishlist

What should I buy my aunty?

They’re not easy to buy for, but lets see if we can help

Multi-site CodeIgniter application deployment

Modifying CodeIgniter to run the same code base on multiple sites, switching config automatically.

Moving wishli.st to the new Facebook Graph API

It wasn’t easy. It wasn’t quick. It took us months. Learn from our mistakes.

A long hard day in the pub

User testing can be long, hard and expensive. Or you can pay £2.50 per users and get a good sample of the public too boot. Follow our simple guide

Keeping it local

Internet retailing and the tech world can lead you to forget about your local area

What would David Beckham want for Father’s day?

What do you buy the man who can buy anything he likes for Father’s Day? Hopefully something off his Wishlist, but failing that here’s what we think David Beckham would want

Creating histogram data using SQL

Histograms (and bar graphs of discrete data) are really really handy when you’re trying to work out how people are using your system. Generating the data for them using SQL is a touch fiddly though. Here’sa simple query to generate some data I’ve just written. All the problems stem from the niggle that what you [...]

CodeIgniter and the Amazon API

We love CodeIgniter (you might have noticed) and we love Amazon. We even love the Amazon API, but lets be honest, it’s not an easy playmate in fact she’s a cruel mistress. We’re using her to search for products using the Product Advertising API (which is nothing to do with adverts and everything to do [...]

Getting CodeIgniter to play nicely with Facebook

Here at Wishli.st we love Code Igniter.  It’s a light weight PHP framework which doesn’t get in your way, but provides some great library funcitonality right out the box, as well as a suite of debugging tools and all the other things that make code frameworks a good idea. Getting CI and Facebook to play [...]

Leaving gifts for Gordon Brown

With all of the excitement here in the UK about the election it’s easy to forgot that politicians are people too, and that all people like presents.  The big question is what do you buy the Prime Minister as a leaving present? Luckily the man himself seems to have provided the answer.  Imagine our surprise [...]

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Wishli.st is David Haywood Smith . I want to help you give great gifts. You can find out more about us and our products on wishli.st"

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