Monthly Archives: January 2010
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-31
RT @glynmoody Facebook rewrites PHP runtime – http://bit.ly/ahwWiq to be released as open source #facebook #php # Poop. Spoke too soon. Snow tap being turned off. F'ing weather god. Curse you. # Decent snow. 4/10 perhaps. B61 #uksnow … Just keep up for an hour or two and perhaps i can sledge/snow fight. # Looks … Continue reading
Verified by Visa …. what rubbish
On Wednesday I was trying to buy train tickets for an upcoming trip to London. So, I book the tickets, and get to point of being asked for my card details … tap tap tap … kapow … Up comes the Verified by Visa payment screen (in a stupid iframe [how do I know this … Continue reading
Random PHP project progress
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The PHP Security Journey begins…
Here’s the slides from the PHPWM talk I gave last week PHPWM Presentation – The Security Journey Begins ; thanks to DeanC on #phpwm for reminding me to upload them The presentation focusses on security issues in web applications – specifically, PHP – although obviously other web facing languages face the same problems. It’s a very … Continue reading
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-24
Bubble blowing fail day. Do mixtures have a BBE date? Rowan seems happy with one bubble in 10 goes. # 820 days uptime is sufficient; time for a long overdue reboot I think. #linux # There's still snow outside tesco. Strange redditch. # Today I did a total of 77 situps thanks to the 200 … Continue reading
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-17
Fantastic Mr Fox looks pretty good; Rowan seems to approve too # 13.26 miles, 1hour and 45 mins or thereabouts. Icy roads. # Lets try http://favoriterun.com/299771 # Hotel chocolate is very nice; I lack self control and gorge myself on a packet at a time … And subsequently feel yucky. no common sense. # Joined … Continue reading
100 press-ups (or push-ups if you’re american)
I thought I’d better exercise more than just my legs for once, and the 100 Pushups challenge caught my eye. In school I used to do 30 press ups each night; over the last few years there have been a few instances when my arms felt weak and puny. So, seeing as how I’m supposed … Continue reading
WordPress – I’m impressed with your upgrade procedure
Previously I used Drupal on this website, and it was always a pain to migrate from one version to the next – there were a number of hoops to hump through, things would often break, modules would need reinstalling and then after upgrading you’d find that some random bit of functionality no longer works (e.g. … Continue reading
Varnish + Zope – Multiple zope instances behind a single varnish cache
I run multiple Zope instances on one server. Each Zope instance listens on a different port (localhost:100xx). Historically I’ve just used Apache as a front end which forwards requests to the Zope instance. Unfortunately there are periods of the year when one site gets a deluge of requests (for example; when hosting a school site, … Continue reading
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-10
Snowing. B61. 2/10 # Feast lodge, bromsgrove: Don't bother. Food better at Johns mega balti. Take away fail. How can you screw up naan bread ffs? # Entered the Shakespeare marathon (April 28ish). #Stratford #running #marathon # I sometimes wish my toddler was a camel. Then he might not wake at 5am to demand food. … Continue reading