Just wanted to try this out! Oh check out potters. Grats rod on getting it live!
Still recovering from the Christmas party! Was a massive weekend so no work got done 
sadness.
Posting from iphone!
December 21st, 2009
Its been a busy year
December 17th, 2009Very busy year in fact, so much has happened in the past few months I have really neglected this blog! Not that I ever paid it much attention. Guess that will change soon. Big news is, that Jesse now has his very own blog! Check it out at http://blog.jcmultimedia.com.au/. While on Jesse he has also just released his Seoul City Metro App so definitely go along and check that out! He is constantly working on it as well, so it should be really awesome soon. And Yes, I did the site for him. Simple and Clean, with enough information to get people excited I would have to say its my favorite site at the moment.
Generally, I’m never really sure what to talk about on this thing. So here is a list of sites that have gone live since I made the last post!
Seoul City Metro Iphone Application
Heathcote Winegrowers Association
Beller Real Estate
Sinclair White
Renroc Group
Love your locals
Fair go sport
The Seoul Metro App site was done freelance. Right now, I need to find more freelance work for a long trip! So better go find that I guess. The majority of these sites are done in Drupal as well, I’m becoming quite the Ninja in it for front end things. Loving its power and functionality (though the forum module sucks!). Can’t wait for Drupal 7, pretty excited to see it in action.
Currently I’m working on my actual portfolio site, then this blog! So soon, I should update the site with my new portfolio.
Im sure I’ll post something more interesting soon!. Maybe even some HTML/CSS things I have Learnt over the year!
Fuckin lol
July 9th, 2009News.com.au comes through with the goods sharing with us statistics that atheism will increase by 51% by 2020. Course the good christian soldiers come out of the woodwork to slay the evil, satan worshipping heathens.
A logical and rational brain would also find it absolutely absurd that we actually exist in the first place. That we have taken the form of Humans and that we have these stupid aspirations to actually be something and this concept of “success” in one form or another. Yup did I mention that at first there was nothing and then bam, a planet began to take form. You betya cotton socks thats of sound logic.
Posted by: Believer of Perth WA 9:20pm today
Course, of course. And another!
This is unfortunate. Atheism is directly linked to the dramatic increase in broken families, domestic violence, drugs and alcoholism in today’s society. Hope the trend doesn’t continue.
Posted by: Not good of Adelaide 9:08pm today
And finally my favoutite
What a sad state of affairs . What will society base its moral standing on, atheism.- no god, no moral code . The moral fibre of society will be extinguished.
Posted by: peter boyle 8:36pm today
Im off to kill some kittens. BBL.
Deleting 1335 spam messages is fun
July 2nd, 2009That was pretty exciting, but al fun things must come to an end. Onto the next items on my list. This blog now runs wordpress 2.8! Its fairly exciting that I can do that, but anyway. There is a lesson I have learnt over the past few months which has made me rethink about this blog and what I can post. You see, a few stray words around the place become bullets for people who probably exist to annoy me.
THUS! I shall not be talking about work anymore, cept the outside projects of course. If a project at work is finished I shall simply mention is by name and by nothing else. I am actually quite proud of some of the recent stuff that is being developed at the moment, and its a reason to get this thing up and running again. There will also be some mentions of politics and what not later on, as Stephen Conroy and Kevin Rudd are pretty lame whilst being the biggest hypocrites known to man. Probably time to whip out that kevin84.com domain I bought.
And don’t forget, you can now order toys made from Michael Jackson’s spare nose collection from Funeral tour later this year. Pretty exciting stuff. Wouldn’t be a blog post without mentioning his death.
Btw everybody needs to get: School of Seven Bells – Alpanisms , awesome album!
OptusScrape – A PHP Class to scrape your optusNet usage data
April 24th, 2009
OptusScrape
I spent the day today writing up a php class that would give me an XML page of my optusnet usage. Previously you could hook into two pages they had running to get a text version of your usage details – but in Janurary they finally closed off the service in favor of their flashy advertising. Whirlpool link Here
Introducing OptusScrape: hosted @ http://code.google.com/p/optusscrape/ and released open source for anyone who wants to fiddle and help with ongoing maintence and development.
It has had no testing so far, and is the result of about 5 hours work – so don’t expect the world. It will probably fail badly if something goes wrong – but from my trials today it seems to work well if you have the right requirements.
It uses curl and PHP DOMXPath object to grab the elements. And returns DOMDocument objects with nice clean XML of the usage data. Thanks for FireBug for quickly getting my the XPath coords.
Next time I have time I will utilize the PHP Curl library, but for now it works well on *nix systems.
Here’s a snippit of the output and fields it supports.
Any feedback would be great!
Installing PHP5.3 beta on Ubuntu 8.10
March 6th, 2009I wanted to try out the new feature available in PHP 5.3 a while ago. And ran into a few obstacles trying get it installed. Since then I’ve installed it a few times successfully.
In each case I already has apache, php and mysql installed according to the instructions in the Ubuntu Documentation.
Download the latest release candidate or snapshot of PHP 5.3. Extract the source.
The first issue I had was with apxs2, to get PHP installed for Apache. I didn’t have the expected apxs2 file. To resolve this I installed apache2-threaded-dev
sudo apt-get install apache2-threaded-dev
Then I was ready to run (with any addition options you need/want)
./configure --with-apxs2=usr/bin/apxs2 --with-mysql
I got the error “xml2-config not found. Please check your libxml2 installation.”
I needed to install libxml2-dev
sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev
Running the configure command again, it succeeded.
Next to run the make file sudo make
Followed by sudo make install
However it alerts you that you need to have at least one LoadModule in your httpd.conf. Ubuntu doesn’t use httpd.conf to load modules so unless you have added something already, then your httpd.conf will be blank. All you need to do is add a LoadModule line. It doesn’t matter if the module exists or not. I simply added LoadModule whatever.
Now the install should work. Finally you might need to enable the php5 module, and restart apache.
a2enmod php5
apache2ctl restart
Checking phpinfo(), you should now be running PHP 5.3
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Icc Color Profile changing the colors in safari.
October 18th, 2008I recently came across a nifty situation where, as applying background images in css the image colors would be different in safari and not in firefox. A strange strange situation indeed. But what could’ve been causing it.
After going through sites on google and some experimentation with color profiles I discovered that it was actually the Icc Color Profile in the save for web setting.
Icc Color Profile
So by unselecting the Icc Color Profile box all my images displayed in the colors they should’ve in Safari.
Learn something new everyday aye. Noob goes down by -1. Dont know why it was selected in the first place!
Apple Releases Security Update 2008-007 and Breaks my Apache
October 11th, 2008As soon as I installed the Apple Security Update 2008-007 this afternoon, restarted and re-opened firefox to all my previous tabs I knew something was up when my localhost suddenly wasn’t responding.
According to Apple, this fix updates to a new version of Apache 2:
Apache is updated to version 2.2.9 to address several vulnerabilities, the most serious of which may lead to cross site request forgery.
In order to get Apache Running, the first thing I tried was openening System Preferences and enabling/disabling web sharing a couple of times – which did nothing.
Second thing was trying to run httpd from the command line. Again, no success but it gave me some useful errors. For some reason it was attempting to load some old set of config files that I hadn’t used for ages – so I promptly removed those and solved those ’syntax errors’ (cleanups are good!)
Once my config files were in order, I was back to square one with this error…
httpd: Syntax error on line 116 of /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf: Cannot load /usr/libexec/apache2/libphp5.so into server: dlopen(/usr/libexec/apache2/libphp5.so, 10): no suitable image found. Did find:\n\t/usr/libexec/apache2/libphp5.so: mach-o, but wrong architecture
All this meant was that the compiled version of PHP5.3 I had (see my other post on running php 5.3) was compiled at 32bit, and Apple had set Apache back to 64Bit. Two commands solved this problem…
sudo cp /usr/sbin/httpd /usr/sbin/httpd-fat sudo lipo /usr/sbin/httpd -thin i386 -output /usr/sbin/httpd
Note that the first command simply backs up httpd.
Since I’ve got web-sharing enabled, I assume that there’s some system that keeps track of the httpd processes, – as soon as killed the running 64bit httpd processes in Activity Monitor, it all seemed to be working again.
Just one note here: I did re-compile PHP again with the command line I posted earlier. There were no errors, and no differences so I don’t think that it was necessary, but I did try it.
Clean Feeds and The Australian Government
October 6th, 2008Something came to my attention in my random internet musings tonight, which is the governments new clean feed policy to stop pedophiles (oh no) from accessing questionable content on the net. Oh and the children. Of course one would think that providing a filter program which the government wasted 84 million dollers on last year would be enough. But no, family first want more. So now we have a Mandatory Filter plan being installed.
While information has been incredibly scarce (read: people hiding it) there has been a few leaks as to how it would work. Of course one would assume that they would offer people to be able to opt out of the system right?
‘The Government’s plan is for there to be two blacklists, one for “unsuitable for children,” and another one for “unsuitable for adults.”
The much-touted “opt-out” would merely involve switching from blacklist number 1 to blacklist number 2.
Under their current proposal, there’s no scope at all to switch to no blacklist at all. Regardless of your personal preference, your traffic will pass through the censorship box.’
So we now have a tiered internet system coming our way. One way where you can protect “The Children” and the other one where the government tells every adult here what we can view and what we cant. Seems like this country is moving closer to China everyday, not only in Chinese speaking politicians but in ideology as well. May as well throw Network Neutrality out the window as well, clearly is doesn’t apply when terrorists and pedophiles are involved.
The ignorance of Australian politicians when it comes to technology is beggining to astound me. Not only from this but the outright banning of games which arn’t appropriate for people for the age of 15 to “protect” us because some old fart in South Australia wont pass an R18+ guideline really makes you wonder if maybe, its best to go overseas to pursue your career instead in this technological backwater.
Good to be living in a Nanny state.
Everyone should read up on http://nocleanfeed.com and write to their local member about it, as the implications of this passing is bigger than people just losing access to porn.
