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Circuitboard Cake
13 July 2008
Read moreThere's a birthday in my household this week so I have been making a surprise cake, which I do every year. Apart from the year where all our stuff was in storage and I only had fairy cake tins, where I made surprise fairy cakes instead! This year I went …
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Ever Feel Like You're Being Followed?
09 July 2008
Read moreI've been using twitter for quite a while now, around a year. And so far, its not going brilliantly.
The problem really is that I don't "get" twitter. I am not online 24/7 so I often only look at my feeds once per day. The conversation in twitter moves …
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Home-Sewn Cushions
08 July 2008
Read moreI have a little sewing machine and a newly-decorated living room. So what could be more obvious than making new cushions for my sofa? I'm planning a whole set but here are the first two:
The one on the left is my personal favourite, it is felt flowers just cut …
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Mysql Error
07 July 2008
Read moreI was running an import script today taken from a mysqldump from another user, when I saw an error that looked like this:
ERROR 1005 (HY000) at line 123: Cant create table (errno: 150)
This is caused by a mysqldump or export process exporting tables in alphabetical order and not …
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A Turtle and a Giant Baby Blanket
02 July 2008
Read moreI've just finished another slowpoke, like one I made earlier, and this one is at least as cute!
I realised after finishing this one that they original pattern has them with their heads looking sideways, maybe this is why mine always look a bit strange!! This one also doesn't have …
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Vim Macro: cleaning up line endings
01 July 2008
Read moreWhen development teams have people working on a variety of platforms, its pretty common to end up with wrong line endings. In vim these will look like ^M at the end of each line. To get rid of these line endings you can use the following command (in command mode …
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Serendipity and Feed Problems
29 June 2008
Read moreThis site uses a blogging platform called serendipity which is a nice little tool and I've been mostly happy since moving across from textpattern (I did write about the experience). Recently however, a few things have been going wrong with the feeds.
I edited an old post, because the image …
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Zend Core Mysql Error
27 June 2008
Read moreI've had this error more than once. On a debian virtual machine, with Zend Core installed, and when mysql doesn't restart when the machine reboots. It looks something like this:
debian:/usr/local/Zend/mysql/bin# ./mysqld 080627 12:31:16 [ERROR] Can't find messagefile '/usr/local/mysql/share/mysql …
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DPC Interview
24 June 2008
Read moreSo, at the Dutch PHP Conference, they were making a video and they interviewed me. The video is at http://www.bachelor-ict.nl/dpc and it is also featured in this article on DevZone which is exciting! The video is mostly about the PHPWomen organisation, rather than my talk but …
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PHPWomen Article Competition
24 June 2008
Read moreThere's an article competition running over at phpwomen.org where thre are two Zend Studio for Eclipse licenses to give away to the best short articles submitted in the Best Practices forum before the end of July. See the announcement for more details.
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A Wedding Weekend
22 June 2008
Read moreWe spent the weekend at the wedding of a friend of ours, where Kevin was the best man. Here's the two boys together before the ceremony itself:
The weather forecast was rather bad and although we didn't get weather as bad as we might have, it did rain on the …
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Deployment with SVN slides - Dutch PHP Conference
18 June 2008
Read moreThe slides for my talk "PHP Deployment with Subversion" at the Dutch PHP Conference last weekend are now online, you can find them at http://www.slideshare.net/lornajane/php-deployment-with-svn/. If you have any questions or comments then either drop me a line or add a comment below.
Edit: I …