Posted in Development on May 21, 2007
I recently bought a Mac, and today was the first day that I only had a Mac on my desk (as I took the Windows PC to use at home). After a week or so of build-up to today, using it more and more, I
Posted in Development on April 16, 2007
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..
Posted in Development on April 16, 2007
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
Posted in Development, Web / Meetups on February 24, 2007
Yesterday, I attended the UK PHP Conference 2007, organised by the guys at PHP London; it was held at Keyworth Centre, a part of South Bank University, near Elephant and Castle Tube. The first talk
Posted in dev-sys on January 12, 2007
Broken Javascript in IE really sucks as one gets really obscure error messages and alert(); becomes your only friend, or so I thought. I've recently done quite a lot of javascript DOM work for a site
Posted in Life Updates on January 1, 2007
It's New Year Day 2007, and I'm sure I'm not the only person getting a few goals noted down for the coming year. As a bit of a break from forward-thinking, here's a quick review of 2006. Biggest
Posted in dev-sys on December 4, 2006
My secondary mail server (that runs qmail) had a load of email queued up today that I needed to flush. Googling comes back with people saying run qmail with daemontools then you can use on of the nice
Posted in dev-sys on December 1, 2006
I've been working on a site that'll be launching in the new year that contains its share of contemporary web technologies (look, roll your eyes if you want but I managed to avoid the W2 word); it also
Posted in Development on November 19, 2006
I've been playing with the AJAX support in Symfony this weekend and I'm blown away by how easy it is. Today I put together a detailed/summary view switcher for a list of items coming from a database
Posted in dev-sys on October 26, 2006
I've updated my svn repository creation script, it now copies and imports the code. Works for me, etc. #!/bin/sh # Darren Beale - siftware.co.uk # bealers@gmail.com # Oct 06 # v0.2 # This simple