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Some links have been stripped from this article due to age and inaccessibility. So I have several pet projects. Let’s be honest most developers do. How I define a pet project is maybe slightly different to how most would though. To me a pet project is one that isn’t important (As the majority of the time a pet project never is) but to me they are ones that are useful for a particular reason. [Read More]

Links have been stripped from this article due to age and inaccessibility. View Part 1 here Shown below are the completed 960 design, as well as the 720 pixel layout. This should result in no scroll on an ipad in portrait mode, where you have 768px. The 960 version has been tidied up and completed. I also changed the social icons to icon dock’s social media icons [icondock.com] due to them having both Drupal and Github icons, whilst my original (And slightly preferred choice) did not. [Read More]

Some links have been stripped from this article due to age and inaccessibility. OK so as many of my loyal blog readers know (Actually do I have any loyal readers? Any readers at all would be a bonus. Mmm I digress..) I am in the process of updating this site to drupal 7. I also feel it is time I updated the design of the site, as it is about 2 years old, and was well a fudged design using [Artisteer [Artisteer. [Read More]

Some links have been stripped from this article due to age and inaccessibility. If like me you need to have RPM/.deb based PHP instead of a self compiled option (For example you are using something such as Plesk which wants RPM/.deb based PHP) and you don’t want to play the rpm -Uvh --justdb (or dpkg equivalent) game I discovered today that you can compile just various modules of PHP using a combination of the phpize (found in the php-devel RPM or php5-dev deb package) [Read More]

Some links have been stripped from this article due to age and inaccessibility. Well today I bought a Vodafone Sure Signal, and in trying to set it up I came across a number of problems that were not too easy to find on the Vodafone website. Below is how I managed to set up my Suresignal. Firstly, the instruction paper you receive with your Sure Signal (SS) does not state the device will need to download a potentially large amount of updates. [Read More]