THIS POST IS OBSOLETE Warning: This post contains material of a technical nature, if you start reading and feel dizzy or nauseous then stop reading immediately and go and lie down. This is a follow up to my previous post where I outlined a prototype of an extension for WPMU which allowed posting to multiple […]
Warning: This post contains material of a technical nature, if you start reading and feel dizzy or nauseous then stop reading immediately and go and lie down. NOTE: The code and some of the details in this article have been superseded by a later post There are a lot of clients for the PC/Mac/Linux which […]
Pub Night is a website that I set up for a group of friends who go out drinking once a week in Cheltenham. We’ve been doing it for years and a few years ago now Nick and I came up with the idea of building a website for it. I went for a Wiki based […]
Over the weekend, when I was moving the boat, I was sitting on the back deck thinking about a lot of things. Camsigh has gone quiet over the past couple of years, and other boards that I’m signed up to such as Ghostly Stay , PhantomFest and Café Phoenixx all seem to have similar cycles […]
I’d been looking round for quite a bit for a nice acronym explainer for PHPBB… I found quite a few but none of them did what I wanted. So I took a couple of existing mods and hacked them round a bit and have produced just what I wanted: 1) Centrally maintained definitions 2) Proper […]
Well I’m quite pleased with myself. The mod to support google ads in the phpbb forums only handles text ads. I wanted to put in some of the referrer ads so I wrote a little bit of php code which sets up an array with the different ads in and then picks one at Random. […]
Well the e-commerce site is up and running at www.ladykat.co.uk I’ve been working on a rather large silly project to “recover” some old phpbb forum posts from html file dumps. It was hard work but fun.. the fruits of that effort can be found at www.tty.homelinux.org/board I’m also working on a two stack parser in […]
Well after following the instructions here http://www.gotroot.com/tiki-view_blog_post.php?blogId=2&postId=34 I’ve managed to get it so that spammers on my boards get a 403 message. The only thing I found was that the directives had to go into the apache2 config file rather than the .htaccess file which complained “order not allowed here”. I also adjusted it so […]
Its lunch time – I’m sitting here watching the horses canter round the field and I can see a small group of tourists walking along the top of the Malvern Hills. Its so much quieter here than in the Birmingham Business Park, the scenery is much better too, and there are several good pubs within […]