by Jono Bacon | Aug 24, 2005 | Uncategorized
After some more hacking on my new little project, I am pleased to release the XAMPP Control Panel version 0.5. I have bumped the version to 0.5 as it is fairly complete, but needs some decent testing. In addition to fixing some bugs, I have also added a large button...
by Jono Bacon | Aug 24, 2005 | Uncategorized
Just spent a couple of hours hacking on a front end for starting the different components in XAMPP. This is going to be useful for my own use of XAMPP as well as when teaching PHP/MySQL courses. At the moment you can set your installation path (saved in GConf) and you...
by Jono Bacon | Aug 23, 2005 | Uncategorized
For many people, Subclipse (a plug-in for Eclipse) has been either really good or really bad. Reports have ranged from not getting it to work at all to it being a breeze. This kind of discussion appeared on the PHPWM list today as I was trying to fix it. Luckily, I...
by Jono Bacon | Aug 22, 2005 | Uncategorized
I have decided I am going to do some running. The reasons for this are twofold. Firstly, I wouldn’t mind clearing a bit of space and get the Bacon love battery downgraded a bit. A few too many beers and pies have created a battery with a little too much power....
by Jono Bacon | Aug 21, 2005 | Uncategorized
Last night I hacked my site some more, fixed a long running problem I have had with HTML_QuickForm and made some progress. The new incarnation of the site will feature a ratings system for songs and support comments on songs. Today we bought the largest bag of dog...
by Jono Bacon | Aug 20, 2005 | Uncategorized
Thanks for the interesting comments about the vim shenanigans. I am aware that ubuntu-base is a meta-package for the essential bits and bobs in Ubuntu, but I find it unusual that vim is in there by default on a distribution so focused on the GUI. As for the suggestion...
by Jono Bacon | Aug 19, 2005 | Uncategorized
Finished up the PHP and MySQL course today and the feedback was good. I enjoyed this one – the group was enthusiastic, fun and encouraged each other. The other day I saw PIDA and I am quite intrigued by it. Before the course started this morning, I was chatting...
by Jono Bacon | Aug 19, 2005 | Uncategorized
Today I was teaching seven people the relative joys of PHP and MySQL. They are a good group and it is a joy to see people getting excited about Open Source. There is a particular moment when all the different pieces just fit together and the student knows exactly how...
by Jono Bacon | Aug 17, 2005 | Uncategorized
Worked from home today as we were having a fence built because some scrote was wandering past our house and decided to have a crack at kicking our fence in. The pathetic excuse for an individual knocked one fence panel down. Our fence was pretty flimsy anyway, so we...
by Jono Bacon | Aug 16, 2005 | Uncategorized
Wandered in a little weary this morning after no breakfast and staying up late working on the book. Before I went to sleep I fixing a stack of bugs I inadvertently merged into the code when I applied some decent validation. Fixed that, read a bit of my book and fell...
