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  1. I'm a Zend Certified Engineer

    14 January 2008

    I'm proud to announce that today both Kevin and I passed our ZCE exams and are Zend Certified Engineers - yay :)

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  2. Logrotate Error on Ubuntu

    10 January 2008

    For a few weeks now, I've been seeing this error in my logs every night:

    /etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
error: error running shared postrotate script for /var/log/mysql.log /var/log/mysql/mysql.log /var/log/mysql/mysql-slow.log
run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1 …
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  3. Home Office Haven

    06 January 2008

    This weekend has been, like many before it, DIY-tastic. I popped out to a party this afternoon and in the meantime Kevin put the finishing touches to the shelves in the little bedroom that we will use as an office. To put this in context, let's start with the "before …

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  4. Compiling PHP Development Version

    03 January 2008

    I had cause this week to install an additional version of PHP onto my development server. This is because I wanted to look at the code for forkr which is targeted at PHP 5.3, which isn't out yet. So I trotted across to snaps.php.net and downloaded the …

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  5. 2007 Review

    01 January 2008

    I was going to skip the essay thing and just write a quick "Happy New Year" post, but then I read last year's entry and couldn't help remembering how far I've come in what is really a short space of time. Two years ago I had no job and was …

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  6. Christmas Angel

    25 December 2007

    Merry Christmas everyone!!

    I spent last weekend doing a mad delivery round across the midlands but now I'm enjoying a quiet Christmas at home. I also finally got round to making the angel for the top of the tree, here she is:

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    She took up her post on top of …

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  7. Midwinter

    21 December 2007

    Tomorrow marks the winter solstice, the shortest day. Already we've reached the deepest, darkest part of the year (and its not all that dark, I'm only 53 degrees above the equator). Now begins the longer days and lighter nights, taking us through to summer time - yay :)

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  8. Easy Mincemeat Recipe

    17 December 2007

    Most of my recipes are found on the internet, but this one is a scanned copy of a recipe my mum cut out of a magazine, probably sometime in the seventies. Its really simple to do and makes nice, sweet mincemeat full of apple tastes and not too sharp. I …

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  9. Tinsel Tree

    16 December 2007

    Christmas really is upon us - well, it isn't but I'm out every night this week and I need to be delivering presents by the end of it. So today sees everything (apart from the home baked gifts) complete and wrapped and ready to go.

    This year we have our own …

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  10. Christmas Cookery

    14 December 2007

    I've excelled myself in the kitchen this evening, been there for a good few hours and here's the result:

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    From left to right: banana loaf, mince pies, more mince pies, gingerbread in a jar, mincemeat pasty thing. Not in the shot is the curry I also assembled for tomorrow night …

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  11. PHP Parcel

    11 December 2007

    Today I picked up the parcel that Royal Mail tried to deliver last week - and it was a box of goodies from the good Cal Evans at Zend!! A while ago Cal ran a competition and then announced that this post had been one of the winners.

    Well, I've got …

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  12. I'm a Birthday Girl

    05 December 2007

    Its my birthday today, I have the day off and will be pottering about doing many things that don't involve working :)

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