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• Installing APC and Memcached for PHP Sessions on Ubuntu and Debi… April 10, 2009

  Installing APC on Debian or Ubuntu is as simple as: **user@server:/directory/$** sudo apt-get install php-apc Now let us reboot the Apache process to enable our new cache: **user@server:/directory/$** sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart APC should now be ready to run on your server. Try running the following command to verify it is setup; you should get something in response like mine: **user@server:/directory/$** php -r ‘phpinfo();’ | grep ‘apc’ apc MMAP File Mask => /tmp/apc. Read more ⇒

• Haiku OS Progress April 2, 2009

  I have previously written about Haiku (formerly OpenBeOs) on my blog and I am pleased to say that I revisited this project last night and had a play with the latest nightly builds. It has moved on from the last time I look at it nearly 4 years ago now, but it still has some way to go before it will be a plug and play replacement for the old BeOS 5. Read more ⇒

• Using phing for good - Unfuddle Add Repository and SVN Import Ta… March 24, 2009

  As you may be aware I have recently been playing with the excellent Agavi framework and it introduced me to the interesting phing tool. Phing can be used to automate tasks with build files that are close to interoperable with Apache Ant, which uses XML files to configure builds. The advantage phing has for us PHP users is that it is entirely written in PHP so extending it is as simple as adding a new class. Read more ⇒

• Installing APC and Memcached for PHP Sessions on Redhat March 23, 2009

  Installing APC on Redhat is as simple as: [user@server directory]# yum install php-pecl-apc APC should now be ready to run on your server. Try running the following command to verify it is setup; you should get something in response like mine: [user@server directory]# php -r ‘phpinfo();’ | grep ‘apc’ apc MMAP File Mask => /tmp/apc.s5jA6w apc.cache_by_default => On => On apc.coredump_unmap => Off => Off apc.enable_cli => On => On apc. Read more ⇒

• PuTTY and Control + S or Ctrl + S March 16, 2009

  As you have found this page I am sure you have accidentally hit the control+s short cut whilst inside a PuTTY shell and following that no keystrokes appear to affect the session. Basically hitting ctrl+s causes PuTTY to stop executing the stream coming in from the keyboard. It does however still listen to your keystrokes and it basically adds them to a queue. Hitting control+q will re-open the stream execution, but it is worthwhile noting that it will also execute all the queued up commands as well! Read more ⇒

• Firefox 3.1 has Web Workers (threading) and Geolocation March 11, 2009

  The latest beta 2 release includes web workers, which are essentially threads allowing you to farm off Javascript heavy lifting to background processes so that the interface can continue to load without being impacted upon. The Mozilla developer center [sic] has an interesting article on implementing them; Using web workers, which includes a couple of worked examples based on the Fibonacci sequence. Geolocation is an interesting one for services like Twitter, Jaiku and possibly Facebook as it would allow users an easy way of updating all the services with their current location simply by Firefox broadcasting the information. Read more ⇒

• CrunchBang Linux on the Eee Pc March 10, 2009

  So far I have tried out Ubuntu, eeeBuntu, EasyPeasy Linux and CrunchBang Linux (all of which are Debian based) on the Asus Eee PC. Ubuntu was a bit of an annoyance to get setup and it was troublesome trying to get all the buttons or the sound and microphone to work so I then tried EasyPeasy. It was easy to install (it already contains the Array.org kernal) and I liked the NBR interface with its easy to use tabbed system not to mention that after using Ubuntu it was nice to be able to see most of the system dialogues on screen (Ubuntu’s dialogues were so long they fell off screen! Read more ⇒

• Agavi Release Candidate 1 February 22, 2009

  A bit slow off the mark with this one but Agavi 1RC1 has been released and it is of course looking very nice. The 1.0 feature set is complete and potential bug fixes are the only things standing between now and 1.0 in earnest. Features that I am particularly interested in include the recent refactoring of the configuration/routing files, the new validation interface and the addition of unit testing to the framework. Read more ⇒

• A Good Windows Development Environment and Ubuntu Virtualbox February 18, 2009

  Often Linux just does it better! Often I find myself developing a Windows machine without access to a Linux development server, but I still need to access to some of the Linux binaries and features such as cron jobs, the at command and binaries such as imagemagick, pdftotext, etc. Some things can be emulated with ported binaries or through Cygwin, but I feel a lot more comfortable developing on a platform that is representative of the live server the web site will run on. Read more ⇒

• Enabling sites and modules in Apache on Ubuntu or Debian January 24, 2009

  I really like the way the Apache modules and virtualhosts are seperated out on Debian into folders containing those, which are available and those which are enabled. There is one small problem with this – it is more work than before! Luckily there are some helper scripts. The Apache configuration files are layed out in the following way: mods-available – the actual text files containing the modules configuration sites-available – the vhosts text file for the site Read more ⇒