Posted in dev-sys on October 9, 2006
In 1997/8 (whenever it was) I got really excited by Flash 3 coming out; I even went to a do at the Islington Design centre (UK/London) where Macromedia pimped it (showing eye4U and Gabocorp, remember
Posted in Development, php on September 28, 2006
After 8 or so years of being a professional web developer I today finally cracked using a debugger with PHP. I've been a long suffering PHPEdit user from since it was open source and into having to
Posted in Development on September 19, 2006
Rob Allen, who is on PHPWM and who I met at the recent PHPWM meeting in Worcester posted something on his blog detailing his prefered directory structure recently. Here's mine, seemingly nicked
Posted in dev-sys on September 13, 2006
When creating a tarball, to exclude folders one simply uses the --exclude= flag: For example to tar up the contents of /var/log but to exclude /var/log/apache & /var/log/mail/ tar -jcvf
Posted in dev-sys on September 13, 2006
I've been migrating a large number of websites over from one server to another, always an enjoyable task. So I get to the last one, copy the database over and do the normal mysql import along the
Posted in dev-sys on September 11, 2006
I'm in the middle of migrating a lot of websites from one server to another. Here's a small script I knocked up to take a dump of all the MySQL databases on that machine: [perl]#!/usr/bin/perl -w use
Posted in Development, php on September 7, 2006
Today I had a requirement to strip off the first 9 digits from a string from within a Smarty template. The system using Smarty is totally locked down so no access to plugins or
Posted in dev-sys on August 28, 2006
I can't be arsed with RSS feeds; they are too high maintenance and I just don't have the time to read them any more, especially so since I became a freelance web developer again and all my time is
Posted in Web / Meetups on August 22, 2006
I've only been living in the midlands for a few months now but have already found two promising groups: The Multi Pack and PHP West Midlands. Multipack seems to be a bit more designery but they are
Posted in Life Updates on July 28, 2006
We've unpacked all of our boxes (apart from all of the ones in my office, it seems), put as many again in the loft, and all members of family Beale are settling nicely into our new life. I'm