Day 2 at PHP Unconference Hamburg
I arrived back in Bergen late last night after spending another day the PHP Unconference in Hamburg. I even managed to get one speaker to do his talk in English, which made things a lot easier for...
View ArticleA Virtual Host per Project
Not long before my old laptop got to the end of it usable lifespan I started playing with the Zend Framework in my spare time. One of the cool things about ZF is that it wants to use friendly URLs, and...
View ArticleEssential Tools for a PHP Developer
Tobias Schlitt has just posted some slides from his talk entitled "6 essential PHP development tools in 60 minutes". I flicked the 90 or so slides in PDF format, they pretty much mirror my development...
View ArticleUpcoming Book Reviews
Packt Publishing seem to have liked my review of Drupal 6 Javascript and jQuery, so much so they have asked me to review another title. On my return from linux.conf.au and Drupal South in New Zealand,...
View ArticlePackaging Drush and Dependencies for Debian
Lately I have been trying to avoid non packaged software being installed on production servers. The main reason for this is to make it easier to apply updates. It also makes it easier to deploy new...
View ArticlePackaging Doctrine for Debian and Ubuntu
I have been indoctrinated into to the everything on production machines should be packaged school of thought. Rather than bang on about that, I intend to keep this post relatively short and announce...
View ArticleGroup Redent Plugin for Status.net / Identi.ca
For a bit over a year now I've been using the free software based microblogging service identi.ca. Unlike twitter, the identi.ca code base is released under the AGPLv3, through the status.net project....
View ArticleSolr Replication, Load Balancing, haproxy and Drupal
I use Apache Solr for search on several projects, including a few using Drupal. Solr has built in support for replication and load balancing, unfortunately the load balancing is done on the client side...
View ArticleMaking it Easier to Spawn php-cgi on Debian and Ubuntu
Apache is a great web server, but sometimes I need something a bit more lightweight. I already have a bunch of sites using lighttpd, but I'm planning on switching them to nginx. Both nginx and lighttpd...
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Keyword Bookmarking
When doing development work, from time to time it is handy to be able to look up documentation. Bookmarking manuals is handy, but often you still need to search for the function you're after. Firefox,...
View ArticleDay 2 at PHP Unconference Hamburg
I arrived back in Bergen late last night after spending another day the PHP Unconference in Hamburg. I even managed to get one speaker to do his talk in English, which made things a lot easier for...
View ArticleA Virtual Host per Project
Not long before my old laptop got to the end of it usable lifespan I started playing with the Zend Framework in my spare time. One of the cool things about ZF is that it wants to use friendly URLs, and...
View ArticleEssential Tools for a PHP Developer
Tobias Schlitt has just posted some slides from his talk entitled "6 essential PHP development tools in 60 minutes". I flicked the 90 or so slides in PDF format, they pretty much mirror my development...
View ArticleUpcoming Book Reviews
Packt Publishing seem to have liked my review of Drupal 6 Javascript and jQuery, so much so they have asked me to review another title. On my return from linux.conf.au and Drupal South in New Zealand,...
View ArticlePackaging Drush and Dependencies for Debian
Lately I have been trying to avoid non packaged software being installed on production servers. The main reason for this is to make it easier to apply updates. It also makes it easier to deploy new...
View ArticlePackaging Doctrine for Debian and Ubuntu
I have been indoctrinated into to the everything on production machines should be packaged school of thought. Rather than bang on about that, I intend to keep this post relatively short and announce...
View ArticleGroup Redent Plugin for Status.net / Identi.ca
For a bit over a year now I've been using the free software based microblogging service identi.ca. Unlike twitter, the identi.ca code base is released under the AGPLv3, through the status.net project....
View ArticleSolr Replication, Load Balancing, haproxy and Drupal
I use Apache Solr for search on several projects, including a few using Drupal. Solr has built in support for replication and load balancing, unfortunately the load balancing is done on the client side...
View ArticleMaking it Easier to Spawn php-cgi on Debian and Ubuntu
Apache is a great web server, but sometimes I need something a bit more lightweight. I already have a bunch of sites using lighttpd, but I'm planning on switching them to nginx. Both nginx and lighttpd...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Keyword Bookmarking
When doing development work, from time to time it is handy to be able to look up documentation. Bookmarking manuals is handy, but often you still need to search for the function you're after. Firefox,...
View Article