Archives for 2007
Yes, my old router died the other day - what a pain in the proverbials that was too. The dead router was a battered old ...
I have been reconfiguring PHP on our servers (FC6/7) here in order to support PHP's IMAP extension. I ran the usual ./configure command with ...
I have been running some geocoding stuff - picking up lat and long data from given post codes for a little project I am involved ...
A little problem has cropped up. I am currently working on a project that uses the Propel ORM layer, which I must say I am ...
This was a real pain in the backside, but fortunately quite easy to resolve in this case. I was running perl based content uploading scripts ...
A spectacular Mac crash reported in our office today. Thanks to some quick thinking, I managed to snap a picture of it on my phone...
Jo, the kids and I went for a walk today in a forest near the Vilaine river, on the outskirts of Marzan and we saw ...
I have just come across an interesting discussion of MySQL's GROUP BY clause. I have always taken it as read that MySQL rather 'abused' the ...
Wrestled with this for a few minutes this morning.. I am writing a process which involves retrieving file information from a store of video files ...
Well not exactly his blog, but some text he has apparently written has appeared in the Guardian's 'Comment is Free' section. You can read it ...
A minor triumph today. I managed to get phing to export some code from a Subversion repository without any of the pain usually involved in ...
I've been having fun recently, finally getting Cisco's VPN client installed on my Ubuntu machine, accessing my work stuff from home - not necessarily a ...
Ignoring A Directory Sometimes you want to be able to set a property in order to ask SVN to ignore a given directory and its contents ...
Yes it is true - after nearly four years of driving to work, spending hours every day sitting on my behind in the car I ...
Today Ruby (my daughter) and I are going to Rock City for some indoor climbing adventures. Ruby is just getting to the age now where ...
It is not without some sadness that my tenure as a member of the Web Development Team came to an end at Mamas and Papas ...
A new bass guitar is in the process of being, well, being I suppose. When it is finished it will be a beast - the ...
OK, you have two sites, one of them under SSL and you want to preserve the users sessions between them - so that for example ...
I tried to install rmagick using gem today and got this: raz@flere-imsaho:~/rubygems-0.9.0$ sudo gem update system Updating installed gems... Attempting remote update of system ERROR: While executing gem ...
I read Stu Herbert's post on his PHP blog this morning, talking about the business case for PHP and also questioning why there was no ...