During the summer of 2007 I decided to purchase a new domain name with a dating theme.
The idea was to start a dating website. Although a fairly saturated market place, I figured it’d be another one to add to my profile.
During my install of PHP5 on FreeBSD…
Build complete.
Don’t forget to run ‘make test’.amber# make test
make: don’t know how to make test. Stop
It made me laugh anyway.
In a presentation entitled “Why I hate Django”, Cal Henderson (head of engineering for Flickr) said, that low version numbers makes him suspicious.
Not so long ago I was asked to answer some questions for a friend of a friend who was writing a dissertation about the “hacking and warez scene” (which I have not been heavily involved in since I turned 18).
As I had known him for a long time, I felt obliged to help out, plus I was now interested in the questions that would be asked.
Based on what had been said I knew they were going to be questions on defining what a hacker is and what a hacker does, something i’ve been interested in defining for quite some time.
Here’s what I said…
It’s about this time that geeks start to think about things to do over the summer.
Geek in the Park is a day-long event for geeks (mainly web developers) to have a get together.
The event is going to be held in Jephson Gardens, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire.
The Picnic during the day, followed by The Discussion in the evening. The event starts on Saturday at noon and everything should wrap up by around 11pm.
…and yes, I will be attending.
So, come see me at Geek in the Park on Saturday 9th August 2008. Put it in your diary!
I aim to get there around mid-day, but have been known to be fashionably late.
You’ll find me listed on both the Upcoming and Facebook event pages.
Don’t forget to visit the Geek in the Park website and add your email address to the announcements.
For those of you on IRC, you can visit #webdev @ EFnet to discuss it further.
See you there!
Today I received a phone call from one of my clients who said that they had a BT engineer with them. OK. I thought, what’s going on here…
They then proceeded to ask me “what do we rank for on google?”, my response was “your company name, unless you request otherwise”.
They then went on to mentioned that “the man from BT” can get us listed “at the top” of the search engine for “our keywords”.
Naturally I reply to this with a sigh, but how they can they go around making such statements? It’s so unethical to make these kind of claims.
After reading their marketing bumph, I found out what they meant by “at the top”. What they are offering is the ability to list as the “sponsored links” in search engines, which appear “at the top”.
They requested my email address to send me “further details” through, below is the marketing email I was sent. I couldn’t wait to pull it apart.
This isn’t at all a review of the BT Web Clicks service, in fact i’ve not used it, it’s simply an analysis of their marketing blurb.
Back in 2004, I signed up my old site “hm2k.org” to Google AdSense as an attempt to raise funds for my work.
It’s content was mainly made up of what I was researching around that time, including a few controversial topics such as hacking, trojans and warez distribution. (Oh the joys of being under 18, or at least I was at time of original creation).
I signed up for Twitter quite some months ago, but have yet really found myself using it.
I’m sure some of you are wondering what twitter actually is. The best way to describe it is a way to tell people you know what you’re up to. It fills the gap between emails and blogs.
This way, your friends can find out what you’re up to without having to actually ask you, and only if they’re interested.
Quite a novel idea. Read the rest of this entry »
Today I received the following email from toby.yang@inveis.com…
[Note: If you also received this email, it's spam, my advice is to delete it!]
I’ve been using phpBBv2 for a long while now, on quite a few sites for one reason and another. I like phpBB because it’s simple to use, for both users and admin. Things like the “ego search” are features I wouldn’t want to live without.
phpBBv2 was great, things like the templates, and installing mods was much to be desired, however workarounds appeared and we got used to dealing with them.
Upon the announcement that phpBB3 was coming out I got excited. Now usually I wait until the first bug fix release comes out before I start using the product, however I wanted to start a new forum, so instead of installing phpBB2 I decided to try phpBB3
This is what I found…
