Darren Beale

A kick around with a difference

12. April 2006

Someone on the Os mailing list posted this today. Its an advert for Carlsberg with loads of old British classic footballers. < 3mins of your life worth wasting http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3219386766071397128&q=carlsberg&pl=true

The next Survivour series

12. April 2006

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My wife Cathie just sent me this, no idea why: Six married men will be dropped on an island with one car and 3 kids each for six weeks. Each kid will play two sports and either take music or dance classes. There is no fast food. Each man must take care of his 3 kids; keep [...]

WordPress Widgets Blog

8. April 2006

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Widgets ‘R’ Us, available at http://widgets.wordpress.com/

WordPress Widgets

8. April 2006

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I’m a developer, I don’t mind - in fact, no, I *like* - coding but when it comes to doing stuff on my own site I’m rather hesitant and I prefer things that Just Work out of the box. I installed a new theme K2 last night and whilst it looks good I did have to [...]

Installing a new WordPress theme, K2

7. April 2006

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If you’ve installed Wordpress in the past then you will have seen the Kubrick theme. A lot of people who use WP end up keeping the original theme as it looks good, for example Cathie has done just this on her blog: http://ackers.bealers.com/. Bealers.com has been annoying me recently, the way it looks and the [...]

The Zend Framework - part 2

7. April 2006

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I’ve added a second part to my of my Using the Zend Framework over in my How-To section. http://bealers.com/how-to/using-the-zend-framework-part-2/ Related: Part 1

Creating a subversion repository

7. April 2006

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I wanted to add my Zend Framework example code to subversion but to do that I needed a local Subversion repository As I had to figure out some of the bits how to this, I decided to put all of my steps into a mini How-To. Here it is: http://bealers.com/how-to/creating-a-subversion-repository/

Windsurfing weekend

5. April 2006

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I recently came back from a great windsurfing weekend. We go twice a year in early spring and early autumn and I reckon after going for 3 years now this one was the best. I put this down to: Actually being able to windsurf now. If I get on the board - which I can stay [...]

Creating a second virtual hard disk for a linux server with VM Ware

4. April 2006

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On my virtual Debian Sarge development server running within VMWare I wanted to create a separate virtual disk so that if I ever want to use the data on it with another virtual machine I can. Here’s the mini How-To: http://bealers.com/how-to/creating-a-separate-vmware-hard-disk-for-a-linux-virtual-server/

Installing CMS Made Simple

3. April 2006

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Grab the code Option 1 - Subversion [code] cd ~bealers/www svn co http://svn.cmsmadesimple.org/svn/cmsmadesimple/trunk cmsmadesimple [/code] This checks out the entire project including a lot of modules into a folder called cmsmadesimple which may not be what you want, but it’s what I’ve done. Option 2 - Tarball Instead you could grab the tarball and extract to the same place and rename the folder [...]

Archive | April, 2006

A kick around with a difference

The next Survivour series

WordPress Widgets Blog

WordPress Widgets

Installing a new WordPress theme, K2

The Zend Framework - part 2

Creating a subversion repository

Windsurfing weekend

Creating a second virtual hard disk for a linux server with VM Ware

Installing CMS Made Simple

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