It's customary to begin programming with an example which prints 'Hello World', so I thought I'd do the same with this blog: <?php echo 'Hello World'; ?>
Recently I moved our website at work from one hosting provider to another. As we have several instances of the site (testing, demo, live etc.), each with their own separate…
If you've ever examined the headers produced by a server running PHP, you may have seen this amongst them: X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.12 This little piece of information tells the world that…
Around this time last year, I made some technology predictions for 2008. You can read the full details in the original post, but I have summarised how true (or false!)…
It’s been some time since the last major WordPress release, but version 2.7 is now out and I’ve just finished upgrading my various blogs. The dashboard is quite different is…
On the company’s blog today, Twitter announced that they would be ceasing all SMS updates in the UK. As usual, TechCrunch UK was hot off the mark with a report,…
As 2007 comes to a close, I thought it would be interesting to reveal some of my predictions of what will and won’t happen in the technology sector over the…
There is an announcement on the official PHP website about PHP 4 reaching end of life at the end of this year, with no more development beyond the 31st December…
The creaking Linux distribution known as Slackware has clocked over another major version number to make it to 12.0. Amazingly, Slackware is still largely maintained by one individual, Patrick Volkerding,…
I’ve been waiting for several days to see if this story is actually true or not, but according to the WordPress IRC channel (#wordpress on irc.freenode.net) and several of the…