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LugRadio Live UK
15 July 2008
Read moreI'm attending LUGRadio Live UK this weekend, in sunny Wolverhampton! I'm slightly concerned that this might be too geeky for me and I might be scared but there are people I'd like to meet, the talks look interesting, and I can imagine it will be a pretty good crowd. If …
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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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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 Day 1
13 June 2008
Read moreWell, its a misleading title because the day is only half over but the Dutch PHP Conference 2008 is well and truly underway! Today I've been in the Zend Framework tutorial given by Matthew Weir O'Phinney, which is a full-day session. Its been excellent - with some concepts, some examples, and …
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Dutch Conference
12 June 2008
Read moreToday I leave for Amsterdam, to visit the Dutch PHP Conference where I will be getting my first experience as a conference speaker. It would be fair to say that I'm very nervous - its a high profile event and the other speakers in the lineup are pretty amazing!
When I …
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Confessions of an Input Device Fetishist
21 May 2008
Read moreWhat can I say? I really really like input devices. I use a laptop day-to-day, it has its own keyboard and glide pad. Do I use them .... err, not often! I've always been quite particular about keyboards and mice, and since developing tendonitis in my hands and arms a few …
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Manchester Is Decidedly Undiverse
14 May 2008
Read moreSo last night, more or less on a whim, I popped to the Geekup that was on in Manchester. I was slightly alarmed when I enquired at the bar where the event was and was told there was nothing like that booked for that night ... anyway I wandered outside and …
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Inaugural Sheffield Geekup
08 May 2008
Read moreLast night I attended and spoke at the First Sheffield Geekup held at the Fat Cat in Sheffield. My talk was entitled "Deploying Web Projects with Subversion" and you can see the slides for that at http://www.slideshare.net/lornajane/deploying-web-projects-with-svn/.
Overall I think the event was well-organised, there …
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Geekup Sheffield
30 April 2008
Read moreI was very pleased to hear that Sheffield is getting its own Geekup event, and that it starts next week on 7th May and will run on the first Wednesday of every month. I was even more pleased to be asked to speak at it - I'll be giving a 20 …
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OpenOffice Custom Quotes
28 April 2008
Read moreI have been driven mad for the last week or so by the silly slanty quote marks that OpenOffice insists on using instead of the normal ones. It is especially annoying when adding code snippets to presentations!
To turn these off go to:Tools > Autocorrect > Custom Quotes tabAnd until …