Serious Bash exploit & fix
There's a bash exploit doing the rounds that is drop-everything serious. The short version is that it is: related to how environment variables are processed: trailing code in function definitions was …
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Tip: keep Vagrant guest additions up to date
I found a handy plugin this weekend for keeping my PHP development Vagrant VM VirtualBox guest additions in sync: vagrant-vbguest vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest Every time you do a vagrant up …
OneNote API and PHP
Recently Microsoft released an API for my brain indexer favourite tool, OneNote. To say I'm excited by the opportunities presented with this API, especially when it has some more features, would be an …
Podcasting is hard
Image by Patrick Breitenbach You know how some people jump out of perfectly good airplanes, climb mountains or cuddle a tarantula to confront their fears? Well I launched a podcast to confront mine …
Building a PHP development server from scratch
The other day my dev server completely died, this was rather inconvenient to say the least. 24 hrs later and my new (excellent, very quiet, powerful but only consuming 150w) HP 54L Proliant …
Launchy is awesome
ALT+Space is your friend Mention Quicksilver and the more techie OSX users out there will wax lyrical about its ease of use and its powerful features. They have a point! Windows has always been a bit …
Round Wood Timber Framing with Ben Law
Mention the name Ben Law to most people and they'll say "Who?". However if you follow that up by describing a certain episode of Grand Designs where a woodsman, permaculturist & author …
Debugging with PhpED and DBG
As a long-term PhpED user, I've always been well aware that I was not making the most of some of the more powerful features of my IDE, particularly the debugging capabilities. Well this week I finally …
Multiple project Trac set-up
I've already installed Trac and I now want to be able to set-up multiple projects with the minimum of fuss. My requirements are: Not having to mess with the Apache configuration every time I add a new …
A Blank Wordpress Theme
I've just uploaded a blank Wordpress theme called Naked that I built to assist those (like myself in the past) who have a need to quickly roll-out a Wordpress theme with a custom look and feel but may …