Darren Nolan

So the dilemma rose tonight when James wanted Wordpress installed on his domain that he’s had since the dawn of time.  Awesome I say!  How exciting!  Get the zip, unzip it, set it up and go for it.

Well after fighting with Dreamhost for a little while on setting up new SQL database, I discovered there’s 5+ years worth of junk sitting in his root public html directory.  “K dude, I’m just going to move these to a subdomain files. and you can start using that”.  Well, after posting for 5 years of links around the internet – he didn’t like that idea.

So I had this fantastic idea – install WordPress in a subdirectory and I’m sure we can find some .htaccess rewrite rules to compensate.  Turns out, it doesn’t appear to be a popular topic on the web.

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I’m torn at the moment.  Once upon a time I used to be an huge fan of Firefox.  Sadly not so much these days, and regretably I’m starting to put IE before Firefox (I hear the shuns. I know).

But let me explain.  My love for Chrome (apart from it’s in-build dev tools in my opinion, well on par with or exceeding that of Firefox’s FireBug), is the fact that – as a user or developer – you don’t have to worry about what version you’re using.  If you’re using Chrome, you’re on the internet and getting all the latest updates.  There’s absolutely no user involvement when it comes be ensuring you have the latest technologies at your disposal.

So when it comes to development, I can easily say if it works on my computer – yeap, there’s one of the many browsers done for check.

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So I hope this gets into the world out there. I’m running the latest version possible of XAMPP for windows (shame on me for windows right?), Eclipse and xDebug.

One interesting thing that has frustrated the absolute hell out of me while working recently is that Apache continues to fail on every breakpoint in my code. “Apache has Stopped working”, and then silently restarts itself.

Sadly there is no further advise from Apache or PHP Logs even went making everything log to their fullest capacity.

And thus brings me to http://windows.fyicenter.com/view.php?ID=68&R=71 – Which is a fantastic little thing you can try on your local dev machines – which quickly and shamefully easily makes your PHP scripts run in php-cgi rather than the default setup of XAMPP.

I’m break-pointing again and everything is well in the land of New Zealand (Oh btw, I’m in New Zealand working my little coding ass off at the moment, should be back in the land of Oz early early June).

Cheers Chaps.

So here’s step two (Long over-due I know) – where I’ve updated the nickname colors for people.

Was having the issue where in a somewhat active channel – too many people had the same color nickname which would drive me crazy. People I don’t really read who said what, I sort of look of the pretty bright colors.

So here it is! Enjoy.

Because sharing is caring, I thought I’d take a look at (and show) the common screen resolutions and browsers of those that visit this site.

I think it’s wonderful to note that while IE6 is still around kicking and screaming about on the internet (I like to believe it’s out of viewers control), only 13% of IE users still use this version, with a great majority on IE8. When IE9 comes out of it’s RC status into release, I think I can start to get excited.