David Goodwin

Author: David Goodwin

  • All in a day’s work…. (magento and putty)

    Here’s a random summary of some vaguely interesting techie things today. Magento Migration When exporting a Magento website from a third party (e.g 1&1), you’ll need to : Copy all files across; the ‘var’ directory can probably be omitted as it’s full of cache like stuff. ‘media’ and ‘var’ look like they need to be…

  • The pain of bios updating (M3N78-VM / ASUS)

    I’ve hopefully bought a new CPU to stick in the office server. All being well, it’ll be super quick and so on. Looking at ASUS’s website, I made sure to choose a CPU the motherboard supports. I saw it required a BOS update, so fine… that shouldn’t be hard, right? Think again. Downloaded BIOS file…

  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-03-13

    Can't be bothered to give up chocolate for lent. Pancakes on the other hand will not be missed. #lent #fb # Reminders: * @PHPWM meeting tomorrow (free beer/pizza phpwm.org); * It's Pie Week; * Pancake today tomorrow. Nom nom nom #Fatties #fb # rah rah rah rah rah rah rah rah rah rah I have…

  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-03-06

    “@gpjt: I always wondered what those buttons on my camera did: http://t.co/HV6rHhw” # Landed: BCN. # Sarcasm seems lost on Liverpudlians. # Tweet tweet tweet # Tweet tweet tweet #fb # It's very relaxing listening to a baby sleeping on your chest. Slings rule. # “@chartoftheday: CHART OF THE DAY: Here's How The Xoom Stacks…

  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-02-27

    “@GeneHunt: Had a plateful of Oysters and syrup of figs…didn't know whether I was coming or going.” # Thanks to the organisers for #phpuk2011 Free beer and knowledge are always appreciated. 🙂 # Shawn Hair eh ? #phpuk2011 you've won a prize … # Web scale reminder – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs – #phpuk2011 # Yey. A web…

  • Compsci Industrial placement year email

    Now is obviously the time students are pulling their fingers out and thinking about industrial placement years. Obviously I’d have a bias towards a certain university if I were looking for a student, but ignoring that, I received an email today from someone fishing for vacancies (this is ignoring the fact I’m not advertising for one,…

  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-02-20

    Bromsgrove hockey 3xi vs Old Wulfs. Lost 11-2. # I'll never grow up…. (thanks @carolinegoodwin) http://twitpic.com/41dg39 # I'm sure that drinking one more beer will beat this cold into submission … #science #alcohol #germs # Ping me on @pingchat at ID: david-goodwin – Send text, photos, videos, and other media to my phone for free!…

  • Automated snapshot backup of an Amazon EBS volume

    I found the following Python script online, but it didn’t really work too well : http://aws-musings.com/manage-ebs-snapshots-with-a-python-script/ EBS – Elastic Block Storage … I had to easy_install boto, to get it to work. I’m not sure the Debian python-boto package in Lenny is up to date. Anyway, $server now has : from boto.ec2.connection import EC2Connection from…

  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-02-13

    Cat poo on the windscreen. :-/ # I leave Rowan with his mum and look what happens ! http://twitpic.com/3z4gdn # “@ChairmumMiaow: Bribed toddler to leave me alone to paint my nails by doing his 🙂 http://yfrog.com/h0wlytjj ” http://twitpic.com/3z17ek # Bromsgrove 3 xi hockey vs bridgenorth … We lost 10-0 🙁 # It's the weekly "where…

  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-02-06

    Upgraded my iphone4 to iOS 4.2.1 and re-jailbroken; exceedingly quick and easy process – thanks to greenpois0n etc. # oooh, looks like Squeeze is very close… good luck #debian # “@GeneHunt: My girlfriend says I'm ignorant. ….. I've absolutely no idea what she's talking about.” # What sort of idiot walks around in the dark…