WordPress stuck in maintenance mode
Earlier this afternoon, I attempted to upgrade one of my WordPress blogs using the automated option, rather than copying all the files across manually (my usual approach). After about five…
MySQL named locks
Until recently, I've only run PHP sites on single host setups, which has kept things reasonably simple. However, I've moved one project to a load balanced solution, which randomly sends…
WordPress end of life for PHP 4 and MySQL 4
The WordPress developers have announced that PHP 4 and MySQL 4 will no longer be supported as of WordPress 3.1, due for release later this year. Part of me is…
Updated PHP Coding Guidelines
Several years ago, I wrote an article entitled PHP Coding Guidelines for evolt. It received a reasonable number of comments and positive feedback, and was my first foray into the…
Hello World
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'; ?>
Special characters in passwords
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…
Hide PHP version from server headers
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…
Looking back at 2008 predictions
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!)…
Now running WordPress 2.7
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…
Twitter halts SMS updates in the UK
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,…