Posted on April 23, 2006
CMS Made Simple uses the great GPL WYSIWYG editor FCKeditor and I noticed this morning that it has a spell checking facility. To get it to work, I: Installed aspell on my dev server: apt-get install
Posted on April 24, 2006
I just downloaded MySQL workbench 1.06 beta. I stumbled across it after finding this message on the DBDesigner forum page: Dear DBDesigner4 users, Due to several attacks against the DBDesigner4 forum
Posted on April 30, 2006
After quite a bit of resistance on my part I'm afraid that it's time to get down with the kids, hence: Install ruby apt-get install irb1.8 libreadline-ruby1.8 libruby libruby1.8 rdoc1.8 ruby ruby1.8
Posted on May 21, 2006
After getting over 200 comment spams in 2 days I decided to implement an automatic spam blacklist system as manual parsing wasn't cutting it any more. Akismet seems good: We can’t stand spam. Who
Posted 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 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 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 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 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 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..