I can’t remember the last time I stumbled across a bug in MySQL, however this morning I did.
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02
Mar
On Friday I went to the PHP UK 2010 conference in Islington, London with one of my work colleagues. There were three tracks, so between us we were able to cover most talks of interest. The conference organisers have said they’ll post the slides of each talk, with sync’ed audio, online soon. I’ll link the slides for these talks as they become available.
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19
Feb
Two weeks ago I swapped out my Seagate Momentus 7200.2 160GB HDD for an Intel X25-M 80GB. I didn’t want to post my impressions prematurely so held out a couple of weeks.
I took the opportunity to upgrade to Snow Leopard at the same time – as I was performing a clean install of OS X. First thing I did was move my user directory on to my second hard drive (a Seagate 7200.4 320GB), to redirect writes away from my SSD.
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14
Feb
Like a lot of people, I ditched my desktop in 2007 and moved to a laptop as my main computer. I take my Macbook Pro to work everyday and it’s also my personal computer at home.
To make life simpler I have an almost identical network set up at home as we do in the office, using the same DHCP range and gateway address (our dev server is also our gateway in the office). So the development server I SSH into at work has the same IP as my home linux box. At work we have internal DNS set up, I’m a little more lazy at home and just refer to my linux box by IP.
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13
Jul
Well that was easier than I expected, having not upgraded my blog in years, I figured it was long overdue and am lucky not to have been defaced via security vulnerabilities. Moving from WordPress 2.0.2 to 2.8.1 was a simple backup and upload of the latest source files. Hurrah!
16
May
Update: Before using this library, see PHP Excel that has support for more recent formats of XLS and Office 2007′s xlsx format.
Quick post to consolidate information around the net. Installing this package is not as straight forward as most, as it’s in the beta channel.
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