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Been having a few issues with Eclipse of late, particularly with it crashing.  It usually ends up grabbing close to 400MB of memory with the projects I'm working on and I think it defaults to reserving around 256MB.  The memory problem only seems to happen for me in Windows XP that I am obliged to use for work and I haven't had the same problems so far in Ubuntu. The shortcut I'm using in XP now has extra parameters: "C:\Documents and...

I'm starting to get towards that ideal web development set-up.  The goal is to have a PHP IDE with integrated, live debugging; content versioned development files, and scripts to automatically mirror development files with a test server, and when they are okay, to push to the live server. For the first part of this set-up, the obvious choice is Linux - free, easy to use, powerful, and already used by the majority of web servers out there.  The specific distribution I'm using is...

Took this photo today during lunch.  Was a wasp carrying a grub seemingly from the nest.

There are a couple of useful  tricks I've learned recently about locating files from the command prompt in Linux. Firstly you can either use locate to find files that have been indexed by the system $locate testfile.php What I've found with the locate command though, is that it can give unexpected results, and often fails to find files that I know are on the system.  This is because it uses a database which is updated from, but that also means that it's really quick, so I find it...

I found out a while ago something quite useful. We had a Linux server at work, and needed to share working files on it, and ended up either sharing one ftp login or logging on as administrator and/or changing the permissions so we could see one another's files. Since then, I've found out that you can use ACL (Access Control Lists) by installing it via synaptic (for additional tools), and adding acl to the fstab (the file system mount file used to mount drives on boot-up). You can then use...

I'm working my way through "Practical Web 2.0 Applications with PHP" and will be discussing some of the parts of it that I find most interesting, whilst building the structure of Clockwork Evolution.  So, yes, it really is Evolution - albeit mainly caffeine fuelled, rather than clockwork per se. First thing though, I want to get this out of the way.  I hate the use of the term Web 2.0.  It has no intrinsic meaning (although most people have their own version of what...

Another fresh start, and another iteration of the site.  This time I'm starting from scratch (sort of), and will be developing the site from the ground up.  I'll start to add in new things as and when, but for now it's going to be quite basic.

This was a rather unexpected shot of a squirrel I took with my camera while at Salzburg.