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I’ve been thinking a little about PHP and hosting recently. Whilst Apache with mod_php is very simple to use and incredibly popular, it does have its own sets of problems. Amongst these are inefficient use of resources – every image/css/js … Continue reading →

I’ve just moved the server this blogs hosted on and one of my objectives was set the new machine up using mod_fcgid with PHP via FastCGI rather than the more traditional apache + mod_php. Why? Apache + mod_php is not … Continue reading →

C has never been my strong point but I’ve just been playing around with gstreamer, and have managed to write a super simple audio player. Its using decodebin (not playbin) so can handle the various audio formats which gstreamer supports. … Continue reading →

I’ve not had much time for hacking lately but I did my first talk the other day for the newly formed GeekUp in Lancaster. They were scouting round for someone to do a talk and in a fit of enthusiasm … Continue reading →

Whilst on my travels I’ve moved from using reader.google.com to liferea, and to using evolution, acccessing my gmail account via imap. This works great until I click on a webpage link – if I’m still in the internet cafe, no … Continue reading →

Since last summer I’ve been working on a fairly major Ruby on Rails application for a client of ours, and with that finally having gone live and been running well for a few months it seemed a good time to … Continue reading →

I’ve got a nice Dell Laptop which I got a few months back, and XPS M1330 – and at the time I was able to reclaim the unneeded Windows licence and was singing Dells praises. What I’ve now discovered (well, … Continue reading →

I’ve fixed a couple of bugs in the CocoaUI factory (progress bars) which were preventing several of the commands from working. The logic for the progress bars still not quite right but should at least work, hence push, pull, branch … Continue reading →