{"id":8,"date":"2007-12-15T18:17:53","date_gmt":"2007-12-15T23:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasyedge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3"},"modified":"2007-12-15T18:17:53","modified_gmt":"2007-12-15T23:17:53","slug":"standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/matthewwells.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/12\/standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"Standing on the Shoulders of Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Standing on the shoulders of giants is something that it is impossible not to do in the Software industry.  There are many giants on whose shoulders I am very much aware of standing. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unified_Modeling_Language\">Rumbaugh, Booch &amp; Jacobson<\/a>; the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Design_Patterns\">Gang-of-Four<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stallman.org\/\">Richard Stallman<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linus_Torvalds\">Linus Torvalds<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/c2.com\/cgi\/wiki?KentBeck\">Kent Beck<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinfowler.com\">Martin Fowler<\/a> are all names that spring easily to my mind.<\/p>\n<p>However the individuals that I&#8217;m posting about, whilst maybe not quite giants are certainly taller than me in their respective sphere and standing on their shoulders has improved my view!  I&#8217;m actually talking about the rather pedestrian (to some!) matter of the look-and-feel of my blog, or more specifically, my WordPress theme.<\/p>\n<p>So who&#8217;s shoulders am I actually talking about.  Well firstly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.free-css-templates.com\/\">David Herreman<\/a> who is responsible for the clean and beautiful graphic design and equally clean css work that I used for my theme. I loved his <code>dkblog<\/code> css template and bookmarked it as soon as I saw it.  Secondly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogohblog.com\/\">Bob <\/a>whose <code>big-blue-01<\/code> WordPress theme I used as a skeleton over which to stretch David&#8217;s stylesheet (I&#8217;m no PHP wizard!).  You&#8217;re looking at the result, unless I&#8217;ve changed theme since!  Thanks guys&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standing on the shoulders of giants is something that it is impossible not to do in the Software industry. There are many giants on whose shoulders I am very much aware of standing. Rumbaugh, Booch &amp; Jacobson; the Gang-of-Four, Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, Kent Beck and Martin Fowler are all names that spring easily to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[15,16],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-css","category-wordpress","tag-css","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewwells.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewwells.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewwells.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewwells.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewwells.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/matthewwells.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewwells.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewwells.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewwells.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}