Archives for “Programming”
If you have ever looked for a book on the subject of Django templates, then a five minute search on the web will soon tell ...
I came across a problem recently when setting up some Fedora 8 Linux machine instances (AMIs) on Amazon's EC2 service regarding the setting of the ...
I am just putting a new development server together, using CentOS 5, and have come across the same headache as usual - managing standard ...
Hey... ... want to know how to do this with MySQL? [code gutter="false" light="true" wraplines="false"] +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | pie_chart ...
Abstract This seems to be a problem that a few people are experiencing these days when posting with apache hosted wordpress. The symptoms (in my experience) ...
Abstract Playing about with Django’s excellent admin interface this morning I came across a little problem that I am sure others will find if using Django ...
Outline An interesting problem reared its head today regarding the inability of my Django setup to connect to a remote MySQL server. I have just migrated ...
Alexander Makarov has written an interesting article on Smashing Magazine comparing a few IDEs. Alexander has helpfully compiled a nice comparison chart here on Google ...
One of the developers at work has introduced me to something quite fantastic on the Unix command line - screen.
There are many occasions where I will create a few new files at once when doing some work in some code somewhere that is under ...
I seldom get through the working week without spending at least a little time on the MySQL server command line. I love those little things ...
A good friend of mine has been kind enough to donate me a Slim Devices Squeezebox (Merci Olaf & Isabelle, je vous dois beaucoup!). Basically ...
Abstract I have decided to reorganise my Subversion repos for a while now. Mainly due to historical reasons, the repo has contained multiple projects, which has ...
Indeed I can announce that I have been the architect of an award winning bit of software yet again! The on-demand broadband television service the ...
Yes, for me it is that time of year again - time to break out the sandals. Worn without socks (of course!) I find they ...
Sunday (yesterday) started well enough - woke up to a nice sunny day, decided to make a pack-up and go to the beach; maybe a ...
I read Christopher Kunz's comments about name dropping in interviews with more than a passing interest this morning, as I am about to be engaged ...
I have been using Apache's Ant in place of Phing to run build tasks for a while, mainly due to the fact that there are ...
The system I have been working on has been mentioned on http://www.publictechnology.net - a website dedicated to public sector ICT and E-Government. Here is the article.
Yes, we've finally done it! The service we started building towards the end of last year has finally been released to a handful of customers. Even ...
Just before the Christmas break, I installed eAccelerator on our development servers in order to run some benchmark tests on the effects of code caching. ...
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 ...