Every once in a while I have to do some .htaccess rewriting and every time I end up deeply fascinated at the possibilities that it offers. This time round the situation was as follows: for a client we had done some advanced search functionality, which uses fairly detailed URLs to ...
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A couple of days I was doing some work on BeWelcome, updating some code to fetch geo data from Geonames.org. Our old code had been using a mixture of a spaf maps class and php functions and trying to get it to work properly seemed to demand quite a ...
read morePHP tips for optimizing
Google published a set of tips on how to increase the performance of PHP a while ago under the heading "Let's make the web faster". I recently came across the article again, and it's been changed a lot since last summer when it was published. At that time ...
read moreBack from OSD
The OpenSourceDays conference is through now (has been since Sunday, actually, but work has been keeping me very busy) and a quick reflection tells me that it was great to be there. Some of the highlights:
- A good presentation from Signal Digital about ding.TING: a new open source frontend ...
Ubuntu and swap partitions
This is a note to self and any others that may find themselves in a similar situation. Should you happen to one day start your computer, wait for your linux distro to boot up and then see the following message
swap: waiting for UUID=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx
without anything else ...
read moreOpen Source Days
One thing I've completely forgotten to mention here is the fact that I'll be going to the Open Source Days conference in Copenhagen the 5th and 6th. The schedule looks nice with Friday probably being more along the line of my immediate interests - although the Development aid & eGov ...
read moreCriminal design
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At
the end of my recent holiday stay at Gran Canaria, my fiancee and I came
across a machine that was designed so poorly, it bordered on the
criminal. The machine in question was a small money-changer, placed
right next to vending machines (both of which are operated by the ...Router scripting
Another thing that's been bugging me for a while on the tech side of things at home is my router. It's a Zyxel 2602 and while the interface is shiny and the setup is fairly easy, the damn thing has a tendency to atrophy and die after some ...
read moreBack from holidays
After great holidays on the Canarian Islands I'm now back in front of the trusty computer. The trip was super, resulting in some much needed extra energy and motivation for ... well, lots of things, really :) The first bigger thing I've done after coming back is moving plphp.dk ...
read moreTypo3 book review
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I've
been given the chance to review the new Typo3 Multimedia
Cookbook
that Packt is publishing. Right now it should be in the mail on it's ...