Category Archives: Tech
DIBI Conference 2010
Yesterday saw hordes of geeks filling the Sage in Gateshead. It was the very first DIBI Conference and it was awesome.
Thoughts on jQuery 1.3 with PHP
As mentioned in a previous blog post, I’m doing some book reviewing again. I prefer the blow–by–blow reviewing style, so here are my thoughts on jQuery 1.3 with PHP
Upcoming Book Reviews
As if I didn’t already spend enough time with geeky books, I’ve just taken on some review work for Packt Publishing.
Lost Time
I lost roughly three hours today. I was copying some files from my old PowerMac (AKA: the Smurf) to my MacBook, when the connection suddenly dropped. Turns out the Smurf had a kernel panic. D’oh! “No problem,” I thought, “I’ll turn it off and on again, and then carry on where I left off.” But no.
Kernel panic on reboot. Every time. Even when trying to boot from a DiskWarrior DVD. Hmm.
35 interesting things about computers in the movies
I found this lying around, thought I’d share. High tech equipment is often driven by a computer with a DOS prompt. (see RoboCop). High tech companies don’t do offsite backups of the data (see Terminator 2). All media devices are … Continue reading
Installing MySQL for Mac OS X Leopard (10.5)
Back in 2004, I wrote Foundation Mac OS X Web Development for friends of ED. The book covered all aspects of web development on the Mac OS X platform and sold well around the world. At the time of writing, Mac OS X was at version 10.3 (Panther). The majority of the book still holds up today, but for one wildly out of date section: installing and configuring the MAMP environment.
I figured it was time to address this on my blog. As well as updating these instructions, I’ll be covering the much requested setting up of virtual hosts.