RSS to Email
Posted 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
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Perl MySQL backup script.
Posted 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
Excluding folders when creating a tarball
Posted 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
Nightmare MySQL migration
Posted 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
SEO considerations for a Flash website
Posted 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
Subversion repository creation shell script
Posted 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
Display PNGs with Alpha Transparency in IE6
Posted 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
Flush the qmail queue
Posted 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
Debugging Javascript in IE7
Posted 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
Superb Javascript lectures
Posted on June 3, 2007
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