Stephen Pickett is a programmer, IT strategist and architect, project manager and business analyst, Oracle Service Cloud and telephony expert, information security specialist, all-round geek. He is currently Technical Director at Connect Assist, a social business that helps charities and public services improve quality, efficiency and customer engagement through the provision of helpline services and CRM systems.
Stephen is based in south Wales and attended Cardiff University to study Computer Science, in which he achieved a 2:1 grading. He has previously worked for Think Consulting Solutions, a leading voice on not-for-profit fundraising, Fujitsu Services and Sony Manufacturing UK as a software developer.
Stephen is the developer of ThinkTwit, a Wordpress plugin that allows you to display multiple Twitter feeds within a blog.
Some of you may have noticed already that I launched a minor update yesterday to ThinkTwit – it wasn’t a major update hence I’ve been a bit tardy posting about it, though it has taken a lot of effort and been a number of weeks in the coming during which 2 other updates have come […]
I’ve had some difficulty in the last couple of months adding jQuery in to my widget form in the admin area (for ThinkTwit), especially with adding functionality that will let me roll up a group of settings to make it easier for the user to edit them as there are so many. It turned out […]
A very short post today, I just thought this would come in handy to someone. If you are in the form() function you should be able to do this:
Hi guys, I’ve just updated ThinkTwit to version 1.3.7 with the following changes:
There seems to be a new Twitter virus or phishing scam going around which affected my boss today. He had a couple of messages telling him that he had a virus, they had received the following message: what are you doing on this moviefacebook.com/42219320781811… wow upsetting
I’ve had a small number of reports lately that ThinkTwit has been deleting the index.php file from the root directory. After some investigation and attempts to fix this I’ve decided to remove the offending code temporarily until I can fix it properly. Here’s an explanation of the code:
I’m happy to report that last week I had a very nice surprise when I turned my phone on at the airport after a well deserved trip to Ibiza: I received a notification from PayPal to say that I’d had a donation for ThinkTwit. The donation was kindly given by Martijn Pantlin from Orgone Media […]
Hi guys, I’ve just launched a minor update to ThinkTwit with the following: Added code to delete old avatars (doesn’t work if owner of avatars is different to running process) Supress errors on chmod and delete of directories Added code to remove all options on uninstallation That’s all for now, but I have already started […]
So last night I was writing an application that would process trunk logs from Connect Assist’s ShoreTel phone system which would allow the raw per-call data to be turned in to trunk usage stats (but that’s another story).
I am today releasing a minor update to ThinkTwit, version 1.3.4, after a fortnight of beta testing by a ThinkTwit fan (thanks Jeffrey!) who has helped me locate and fix some issues with the new avatar caching: