Having gone through the setup of my new site for PL PHP in Comparing CMS/blog systems, part 3.1: Typo3 day to day I next wanted to try going through the same with CMS Made Simple. As noted in Comparing CMS/blog systems, part 2 I didn’t get CMS Made Simple installed the first time round, but [...]

The individual posting on the blogs and cms’ will be bigger, given that there’s simply more to do than for installing. Hence, I’ve decided to split the posts into smaller chunks, dealing with one product at a time. On top of that, the ordering has changed a tad – I wanted to start with the [...]

Set off by a job interview I got, I’ve started learning actionscript. It’s not something I’ve dealt with before apart from decompiling flash scripts to debug them. There’s been some obstacles before I could really dig into it – the first being getting an actionscript compiler installed on Ubuntu. As always, though, someone else had [...]

This week and the weekend before that I’ve had the chance to experience the joy of migrating servers. BeWelcome has opted for a new production server, as a) the new contract is cheaper and b) the new server has better hardware. Based on that experience, there are a number of conclusions to draw: Before you [...]

I’ve read many times in many different places written by many different people that learning the programming trade means that when you look back at previous code you wrote, you’ll wince and go ‘Eeeeewwwwww!’. Well, I’ve read something to that effect, maybe not exactly that. Various people (like Jeff Atwood) have written on the notable [...]