http://bealers.com Husband, Father and Entrepreneurial Geek Thu, 08 May 2008 13:00:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today I put together the 10th iteration of Bealers.com which is a massive relief as it's been on my to do list for 6 months+. Initially as I was going to use external help (and I had some great offers of assistance, thanks all) but in the end I simply used ... http://bealers.com/2008/04/20/bealerscom-v10/ When we downshifted in July 2006 - actually it turns out that it was Cathie that really downshifted, I simply started again from scratch albeit with a much healthier balance between my business and home life and with considerably less stress - one part of our due diligence was to ... http://bealers.com/2008/04/13/personal-goals/ I've been getting these since the recent 2.5 upgrade. I had other issues that I managed to fix by massaging the data structure so I'll need to fix this too. I assume it's because my WP install is around 4 years old and one of the upgrade scripts missed off ... http://bealers.com/2008/04/11/blank-wordpress-comments/ On Sunday Kurt and I went to see Jean Michel Jarre at The Albert Hall. He was for the first time ever playing Oxygene - his first album released in 1976 - live in its entirety. We had top-dollar seats that gave us a very good view of the antiques that ... http://bealers.com/2008/04/01/jean_michel_jarre_oxygene_live_at_the_albert_hall/ The Multipack describes itself as "a community of multi-talented Web professionals from across the West Midlands" and attending one of their meetings has been high on my list for over a year now. This Saturday I finally made the effort to get to Birmingham for the March meeting and it ... http://bealers.com/2008/03/10/multipacks-march-2008-meeting/ Are you a designer? Do you fancy making this blog look less rubbish? If so please get in touch. Siftware is already in the process of getting re-done so I figured my personal site should get updated at the same time. Ideally we'll do a trade on services, e.g. I'll provide some ... http://bealers.com/2008/02/21/retarded-design/ ..was born this morning at 4:59am weighing in at 6lb 13oz. Mother and baby doing well.   http://bealers.com/2008/01/24/scarlett-eve-beale/ As long-term PhpED user I've always been well aware that I was not making the most of some of the more powerful features of my IDE, particularly the debugging capabilities. Well this week I finally got debugging set-up properly and as per most of my other blog posts I'm listing ... http://bealers.com/2008/01/20/debugging-with-phped-and-dbg/ I've already installed Trac and I now want to be able to set-up multiple projects with the minimum of fuss. My requirements are: Not having to mess with the Apache configuration every time I add a new project because I don't want to have to restart apache Make some simple modifications to the ... http://bealers.com/2008/01/03/multiple-project-trac-set-up/ I used to get annoyed when pasting text into a Vim window as each line would indent one more tab than the last line. To fix it I used to add set noautoindent in /etc/vimrc, however this unsurprisingly turns off auto indenting, which is a useful feature for normal typing. Today ... http://bealers.com/2008/01/02/vim-auto-indenting/