Darren Beale

Google Developer Day 2007 (London)

3. June 2007

On Thursday I attended the Google Developer day 2007 event in London and overall I’d say it was worth the day out of the office.My headline excuse for going was that I’m working on a project that requires some Google Maps integration and as there was a 1.5 hours hands on workshop on it I [...]

Superb Javascript lectures

3. June 2007

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As someone doing more and more frontend development using javascript I’m trying to shore up my knowledge a bit. For example some of the shortcut syntax I wasn’t sure about and I knew I could do with more backgound on how the language deals with objects. With this is mind I’m half way through Douglas Crockfords [...]

Bargain PHP training

2. June 2007

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David and Kat over at Pale Purple are offering a PHP training course lasting 5 days starting in July for £500; a special offer price as it’s the first time they’ve ran the course publically. Sounds like a bargain to me.

Siftware 2.0

11. May 2007

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The Siftware website was launched in July 2006 and if I’m honest it was a pretty rushed affair. Nearly a year later I’ve found the time to write some decent copy for it and I’m happy with the tone and that it properly reflects the sort of services that we’re now providing. We’ve also put up [...]

Updated: PHP Debian development server how-to

16. April 2007

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With the recent release of Debian Etch to stable I’ve updated my aged Building a PHP development server article. In it I finally admit that Apache 2 exists plus I fix an embarrassingly large amount of typos. Hopefully it will be useful to someone.

Simple hack to get PHP to install on Etch with Apache 2

16. April 2007

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I was stuck for a few mins just now when trying to do a ‘make install’ for php 5.2.1. I was getting the following error: apxs:Error: Activation failed for custom /etc/apache2/httpd.conf file.. apxs:Error: At least one `LoadModule' directive already has to exist.. make: *** [install-sapi] Error 1 As you can see the assumption is that Apache’s httpd.conf contains at least [...]

Killing a list of processes

16. April 2007

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I’m fighting with a MySQL server at the moment. It’s freshly compiled from source and I’ve followed all of my tried and tested instructions but it won’t start up properly and leaves a load of process hanging around that need killing before I can try starting it again. pkill wasn’t cutting it so I quickly put [...]

Making Windows Server 2003 suck less when rebooting

27. March 2007

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At the office I run a single Windows 2003 server which also runs Exchange 2003. It has a fat amount of RAM and 4x large SATA disks. Everything else the businsess needs - a number of Linux servers - run as VM Ware virtual machines on the server. Anyhoo, it takes the machine 20 [...]

Mochikit Widgets

19. March 2007

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I’ve been using Mochikit extensively for some heavy interface development work that i’ve been doing recently. Well I needed a ’slider’ widget for sizing some elements on-the-fly and was hoping not to write my own. Luckily I stumbled across UI4Web which used Mochikit as a base and supplies out-of-the box a slider control, amongst others. I had [...]

My first impressions of Windows Vista

5. February 2007

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My action pack update came in a few weeks back with the Vista upgrade disks and today I had a spare few mins so figured I’d do a practice upgrade*. So I copy one of the Win XP testing VMWare virtual machines boot it up and over lunch install Putty, Photoshop CS2, Fireworks, my PHP [...]

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Google Developer Day 2007 (London)

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Simple hack to get PHP to install on Etch with Apache 2

Killing a list of processes

Making Windows Server 2003 suck less when rebooting

Mochikit Widgets

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