Return True is a coding tutorial, and personal website of Paul Robinson. Wow! Writing in the third person is strange.

This site is all about helping spread my knowledge of coding to the masses. I have worked with a combination of PHP, HTML, CSS, and jQuery for quite a while (nearly 11/12 year) and want to pass on my knowledge to others instead of being selfish and keeping it all to myself (take heed large media companies).

I do not claim to be an expert in any way, I am self taught and expect I still have a lot to learn. However what I do know I feel I can put to good use. Now, ask me some questions & let’s get this over with.

Who Are You?

Like I said, my name is Paul Robinson. I’m not famous. I did write three WordPress plugins. Twitter Stream, The Attached Image, and Zstore. You can find them all in the WordPress plugins section of the downloads menu above.

Where Are You From?

Ahh, that’s a tricky one. I live in the North East of England. Near Newcastle Upon Tyne. If you are confused as to what I sound like then try this. Have you heard of Cheryl Cole? Yes. Think her with facial hair and you have your answer. Joking, joking (I love Cheryl). I sound very similar though.

What Do You Do?

You mean as a job? I’m a self-employed freelance web developer. I complete small bits of code, install plugins, install sliders, do small jobs that the larger coders don’t have time to bother with, but that the normal (non-code versed) person doesn’t know how to do. My prices are very reasonable, you can see them on my hire me page.

What Are Your Hobbies?

Writing random bits of code, optimizing our server, photography, watching movies/TV, playing video games. Helping you guys out with coding. I have no social life… Well other than Twitter. Oh and a huge thank you to Ashleigh (you know who you are) for putting up with my rants and keeping me from going insane when work is getting to me. Big hugs to you Ash.

I Love The Site Design. Who Did It?

That would be Lisa Marie over at Lisa Marie Art & Illustration. She doesn’t normally do web design, she likes to paint animals, but being her brother helps.

I’m A Techie. What Technologies Do You Use On The Site?

Glad you asked. Return True is running on WordPress (as you might have guessed) with W3 Total Cache bolstering it for heavy traffic. As for the server is it running on Nginx with a PHP FCGI backend. The design makes use of jQuery, PHP, and the latest advances in CSS including gradients, box shadows & CSS transitions. The theme itself is actually built using the Twitter Bootstrap, which is awesome. I also recommend 99Lime’s HTML KickStart too.

I Hear You’re A Chuck Fan?

I am. A huge Chuck fan. Sadly the show is finished now, but us fans can hope for a movie… Right? Maybe syndication? Something, anything?! It would have to be with the original cast though. Especially Yvonne Strahovski. Sarah Walker is kick ass only because Yvonne is kick ass. It wouldn’t be the same without her, plus she’s Chuck’s wife. Anyway I digress. Next questions.

That’s All My Questions.

Well I hope you enjoy your visit to Return True. If you can think of a tutorial you’d like me to write please get in touch, or if you need some coding work feel free to check out my details.