Following a few tweets back a forth with a couple of people it became apparent that there was no one place where someone could view all the Knowledge Transfer Networks (KTN’s) on Twitter.

What’s a KTN I hear you say? Well, they are government funded networks (there’s quite a few of them!), where groups of industry professionals can get together to discuss and share knowledge and keep up to date on what everyone’s doing, and what’s happening within their profession.

Anyway!, to put a stop to there being no single repository of their Twitter activities I’ve set up a Twitter list to do bring them all together - now you can find and follow to all the KTN’s at once by heading over to my Twitter list here: http://twitter.com/lloydengland/ktns

If you know of any other KTN’s which arn’t on my list, please do let me know.

*Note – This is not an official list by any means, and was solely created by me to benefit others with no involvement from any official party.

Yesterday I released a small new plugin to the Wordpress respository. It’s a quick and very simple plugin which does one specific task – which is to restrict access to the backend of Wordpress to every user except administrators.

When activated, when users log in they will be redirected back to the blog homepage and if they try to access the backend, including their profile, they will again simply be redirected back to the homepage.

I plan to vastly improve the plugin in the next few weeks; upcoming features in the next version will enable you to choose access levels based on roles and customise the page a user is redirected too.

You can download the plugin over at Wordpress here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backend-user-restrictor/

Let me know what you think and what features you would like to see in a future releases

Three years to the day since ABC1 was launched, two and a half years since I launched the unofficial abc1uk website, the channel has come to an end with Disney pulling the plug and so with that, the unofficial website has had to close too.

It’s been a good couple of years with the site, with it being the first large scale site I’ve had to manage and deal with, and then a year later after teaming up with Myles, we recoded and redesigned the site to make it into the monster it became!

I’ve had online interviews with stars from ABC1 TV Shows, namely Sabrina Lloyd from Sports Night and Sherri Shepherd from Less Than Perfect, the site gained a whole heap of users and members to it’s forums, and it really did become a mini community with Disney having a look around the site on a regular basis!

Sadly though that is now all over, but there are always some people I would like to thank, namely;

Myles Noton, for to whom if it wasn’t for him the site probably wouldn’t have become so big and rich in features, and thus popular.
John Thackery, for providing hosting and tech support, and being there in times of crisis!
Joyce Rubin at Disney, for patiently providing as much information as she could on news about the channel and shows
The interviewees; Sabrina Lloyd and Sherri Shepherd, and their agents, to take the time to answer a few questions
And finally the visitors who took the time to keep visiting and who joined the community, and stayed with us when things sometimes went bad!

After a couple months of designing, coding, and putting the finishing touches too, the website for Rung Heating I’ve been making is finally complete, and more importantly it’s launched!

Based in Sherborne, Dorest; Rung Heating Supplies Ltd are specialist distributors to the heating, ventilation and air-conditioning industries across the country.

The website features company information, client listings, contact information, and the company’s complete products and services, all coded with fully valid XHTML and CSS through Adobe Dreamweaver, a downloadable company breakdown PDF document and photos and images made through Adobe Photoshop.

View site: www.rungheating.co.uk