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Offer Accepted (sound familiar??)
24 April 2007

We’ve bought a house! If you think you may have read this before, perhaps you’d like to read one of the three previous offers posts.

In an interesting twist, we’ve had an offer accepted on the same house we had an offer accepted on last time, for …
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Three Things I Saw At Chester Zoo
24 April 2007

We went to Chester Zoo on Easter weekend, which was great apart from the humongous traffic queues to get in. Still they seemed pretty well organised and since we chose to arrive mid-morning on a beautiful bank holiday weekend then it was always going to be busy!

The zoo itself …
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public/private key SSH on ubuntu
23 April 2007

Here are a few notes I made when changing SSH acces for an ubuntu server over to using public/private key authentication. These instructions are for commands run on the server to generate keys which are then used to access that same server from elsewhere.

On the whole the process …
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Flip flops to Espadrilles
21 April 2007

I have just seen this amazing pattern on floofle.blogspot.com – a definite maybe for my summer projects list!

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Baby Booties
19 April 2007

The first installment of knitting for a new arrival due into the extended family this summer. They are actually green but I didn’t fiddle with the camera before I took the photo!

The pattern is from a supplement that came with Simply Knitting magazine a while ago – but as …
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Process Email Queue by Waving Mouse
18 April 2007

Today I had a problem with a development server. A little, low-traffic thing that I was testing some PHP-sends-email pages on. The emails wouldn’t send although I could see them sat in the queue.

The story gets better but there’s a techie bit between here and the punchline …
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Tabs in Vim
16 April 2007

Tabs seem to be out of fashion in the programming world, there are perfectly valid arguments on both sides or the tabs vs. spaces flame war, illustrated with examples from every programming language and text editor combination ever made. You can read any or all of these if you are …
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SQLPlus for MySQL
11 April 2007

Until recently I spent a lot of time working with Oracle from the command line (via ksh on AIX, in case you’re interested). A change of job means a change of platform and I find myself working with MySQL on a daily basis. I like MySQL – like most PHP …
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Easter Chick
08 April 2007

Happy Easter! I’m away for a long weekend but this post was pre-recorded. I handmade my mum’s easter gift and wrote about it, but can’t publish until she’ll have got it!

Its a duckling from this pattern – knitted with fluffy wool on four needles. I used …
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Kbuntu Add Programs
05 April 2007

I’m just getting started with running a linux machine as my main computer at work (yay!), setting everything up today. My tip for installing linux the first time is to get the repositories of software added so you can install more things though “adept” (the program that runs when …
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9 Steps to PHP Documentation Heaven
02 April 2007
1. Download PHPDocumentor and uncompress it into a directory inside your web root.
2. Access the web interface by going to phpdoc.php in the newly extracted directory
3. Enter the directory you would like to document
4. Enter the directory the output should appear in (this needs to exist and be writable by …
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Form Name ID and Label Tags
30 March 2007
Just a quick one, but something that confuses me often.
```
<input name="input_name" id="input_identifier ....
```
name is what the POST request will see the field called

id is what the label tag will use to figure out which field it belongs to.
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