Posted in Development on September 10, 2005
I want to do some scripting to parse the contents of the iTunes XML library and ultimitely transfer the contents to a remote server. For my desktop I use Windows XP because It Just Works most of the
Posted in dev-sys on August 19, 2005
A very easy to install WP plugin that gives you good range of basic stats in your admin screen http://jrm.cc/archives/blog/wp-shortstat/
Posted in Development on August 18, 2005
Today I was writing some code - which is actually suprisingly rare these days - and I was getting an error about a particular function not existing in PHP5, array_diff_key() Luckily some body already
Posted in dev-sys on June 30, 2005
At work I've a MySQL 4.1 Master -> Slave set-up over our VPN as a backup and for local data processing. Today we realised that it'd not been replicating for days, @rse. Running "SHOW SLAVE
Posted in Development on April 21, 2005
If you're using PHP to do XML-RPC and are getting odd issues with a timeout of around 60 seconds then you may want to look at the PHP.ini setting: default_socket_timeout this is by default set to 60
Posted in dev-sys on April 20, 2005
Easily the best web application I've ever seen: http://maps.google.co.uk For starters type in 'Curry E1', when that's loaded, type in 'Curry E2', also note that the map is draggable at all times This
Posted in dev-sys on January 25, 2005
I need to make sure that a particular host is available 24-7/365 for an application that my company is building. There is loads of information on local clustering but not much on balancing over
Posted in dev-sys on December 20, 2004
I'm going ot have a go at writing a Firefox extension. The upside is that I have an idea, the downside is that it looks like after 6+ years being a web developer I'll actually have to know more than
Posted in dev-sys on October 31, 2004
needs greater margin and to stand out 2) Source code highlighter would be excellent 3) Seems a bit dodgy parsing, some tags get eaten.
Posted in dev-sys on October 31, 2004
(I will keep re-editing this post and resetting the timestamp) I assume (and hope) that some of these will be solved by using pugins. Description per category 2) Breadcrumbs for the embedded