Home from PHP UK 2009 in London

This is post is now quite old and the the information it contains may be out of date or innacurate. If you find any errors or have any suggestions to update the information please let us know or create a pull request on GitHub Just got back from London for the PHP UK 2009 conference which was great - learnt a bunch of stuff and even had someone from Microsoft try to persuade me that I should use windows servers for running PHP applications (which was amusing). Read On →

phpuk2009 Tomorrow

This is post is now quite old and the the information it contains may be out of date or innacurate. If you find any errors or have any suggestions to update the information please let us know or create a pull request on GitHub I’m going down to London tonight because tomorrow is the PHP UK Conference of 2009. Looking forward to it :-) http://www.phpconference.co.uk/

Suse Home Folder Problems

This is post is now quite old and the the information it contains may be out of date or innacurate. If you find any errors or have any suggestions to update the information please let us know or create a pull request on GitHub I recently had a really strange issue with Open Suse 11 - the contents of my home directory were totally invisible if using the file manager. I could see them in the terminal, however I was only able to run the ls -al command as root. Read On →

Fnargleblarglewobbady or How Getting to Postion Number One Isn't Everything

This is post is now quite old and the the information it contains may be out of date or innacurate. If you find any errors or have any suggestions to update the information please let us know or create a pull request on GitHub On a forum I frequent the discussion came up of guaranteed number one positions in Google. My argument here is that its easy enough to get to position number one for “something” - for example Fnargleblarglewobbady The question is whether the search keyword or phrase is one that there is any worth in being number one for. Read On →

Google Chrome on Linux (Well Kind Of)

This is post is now quite old and the the information it contains may be out of date or innacurate. If you find any errors or have any suggestions to update the information please let us know or create a pull request on GitHub Check this out - chromium (the open source backbone of Google Chrome) running on Linux, courtesy of the nice people at Code WeaversMore…Arora, a refreshing new Read On →

Magento Tip - Rename Your Theme Directory

A common mistake made with Magento installations is that the the standard theme (eg default) is customised to suit the look of the site but is still kept in a folder called default. If you do this then whenever you want to upgrade your Magento store, the theme folder will be overwritten causing you all kinds of problems. I hope you had a backup! All you need to do is make sure that if you are running a custom theme - even if it is simply a modified version of the default theme, make sure that it is set up a separate theme with it’s own name. Read On →