“works” trumps “elegance” every time

For a while now I’ve been toying with using our Socialtext server for more than just the wiki. The problem there is that Socialtext uses apache-perl with what (for me) appears to be a somewhat interesting set of mod_rewrite rules. From what I can tell, it takes whatever you bung in the URL and passes [...]

Symfony project: Cries from the Sandbox

Started reading about Symfony a few weeks ago, and finally got a bit of time to actually give it a try. As they suggest, if you just want to muck about with it and not do any serious development yet, grab the sandbox install as it will just work out the box. What follows are [...]

Setting up a PHP/MySQL development environment under OS X

Since my laptop got nicked last year, I started using a loaned Powerbook to try and get some work done. I’d always wanted to make the move from PC to Mac, but was always held back by the ease of use of a “known” operating environment and a large drive full of existing Windows format [...]