Recently I wrote about installing PHP 5.2 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, then again about how I also got PHP 5.2 working on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise in the same way. Well now I’m trying to get OCI8 working in this environment and there were a couple of obstacles. Firstly, an updated package somewhere along the […]
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PHP 5.2.x with APC on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid (via Hardy)
As part of a move to virtualise our last remaining physical servers and build more scaling capability and resilience into our web serving infrastructure we have a specific need to run a couple of legacy apps on PHP 5.2.x. In the future when we’ve managed to fit in testing a bug fixes we’ll have these […]
Slightly more Regular Expressions
For me regular expressions are like magic. I can appreciate the wonderful things they can do but I’ve never really understood how the trick works. As I develop primarily in PHP there are plenty of PHP string functions which when combined, can get me the desired result. However, yesterday I had to extract two values […]
Arrays in dBs and YAML Config
I’m working on some new mega-menus for GO. I’ll post about that when we go live. Following a pre-Christmas code review of the user-defined munu choices, we identified that we needed a way to provide a default set of menu items for everybody prior to them making and saving their personal choices. Mike remembered that […]
PHPNW09 Round Up
Last weekend Janeth, Andy and Simon (from Business Systems Solutions) headed over to Manchester Conference Centre for the second Annual PHP North West Conference. Organised by volunteers from the PHPNW user group it has a great community feel to it yet has a great reputation. A few thoughts about some of the sessions I attended… […]
PHP North West Conference 2009
Last year, Andy and I attended the first Annual PHP North West Conference. Well it’s back for PHPNW2009 next month – Saturday 10th October with extra stuff happening Friday evening and Sunday morning – at the Manchester Conference Centre. This year there will be a few of us attending from Web Services allowing us to […]
PHP North West Conference Review
Dangerously close to going the whole of November without a blog post so I thought I’d catch up with a quick review of the PHP North West conference last weekend. London has had a conference for a number of years so it was about time there was one up here so myself and Andy made […]
PHP North West Conference
London has had a PHP conference running for a number of years – Andy and I attended the last one in February this year – but there’s not been anything up North so far. That’s all about to change with the creation of PHPNW and the announcement of the first (of many?!) PHP North West […]
Use our data
I mentioned previously about some of the feeds we’re providing for news and events and said at the end of the post that we’d be doing some stuff for the Institutional Web Management Workshop. Well it’s finally time that we have to firm up what that stuff is! Edge Hill – along with the Universities […]
PHP London 2008
A belated writeup on last week’s PHP London Conference. Andy’s already written a post so I don’t feel too bad! As it turned out we split the sessions so I’ll just cover those Andy’s not mentioned. First up was Stefan Esser’s PHP Binary Analysis. It was looking at using complied PHP bytecode to debug and […]