Nuclear Weasels

I say we should all embrace the following method of doing Word Press Upgrades.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing/Updating_WordPress_with_Subversion#Tracking_Stable_Versions

It simply rocks.

~Dan

I’ve injured my AC joint again, probably a grade one tear.

Read more about the pain here.

~Dan

I’ve spent a day setting up RT for use with my hosting company, I’m pretty happy with it. 

Screenshot of it working below.

Success - RT is installed

Sweet!

~Dan

Just a quick note - my feeds now go through feedburner so if you were subscribed to the RSS feed before I’d appreciate it if you resubscribe through feedburner.

~Dan

Over on Bob Nation Bob has asked a question, what are your “developer tools?” rather than simply answering over on his blog I thought I would write out a fuller reply here and put it out to everyone.

As you may or may not be aware I’ve been dabbling with various other languages this past year I’ve spent time developing with the .Net Framework (C# rules!), Java Server Pages, Ruby and Perl. Thats on top of my normal work with PHP (I’m still sort of maintaining TFMS) and my dabbling with earlier versions of Zend Framework.

Now though I’ve settled on a specific language I wish to pursue and that is PHP, along with the Zend Framework I feel its the best fit to what I’m trying to accomplish. I don’t want to get in to any X is better than Y debates on programming languages though as I’m a firm believer in people using what they are comfortable with. Trying to force a square peg in to a round hole doesn’t work - so we shouldn’t be forcing people to use languages they don’t like.

Now, on to the dicussions about my developer tools. I work multiplatform on Windows XP and Mac OSx Leopard machines so I prefer having tools I can run on both.

Text Editors

My main text editor is Zend Studio, so far I’ve only been able to afford the cheaper version - sadly my finances won’t stretch as far as the 300 / 400 euro’s I need to purchase the all singing all dancing version. Zend Studio runs under Leopard and XP so that covers my cross browser needs.

My backup editor on Windows is Edit Pad Pro, an editor I found a few years ago but only got around to purchasing last year. 

On Leopard my backup editor is the ever amazing TextMate.

Servers

On Windows I run WampServer for my server needs, it provides a nice set of controls for managing the sites hosted on my Windows machines.

Under OSx I run MAMP Pro - one of the better purchases I made as it makes setting up sites on the server simple.

~Dan

That google is indexing this site, that knowledge was confirmed when my search terms alert sent me the following message.

I’m annoyed, my tired got a puncture on the way to work today - thankfully it did it when I had barely a mile to ride so the walk wasn’t too bad.

One thing I am annoyed about is the Slime Tube I had installed on the bike, it was absolutely useless when it came to fixing the problem with the tire. I’ve had to fix the tire the ‘old fashioned’ way.

Why doesn’t technology work?!

~Dan

Well folks after a long time I finally manged to get my arse in to gear to cycle to work, sitting here in the office I’m now really glad I did. I’m no where near as dead as I feared I’d be, infact despite a few aches and pains I’m not doing too badly.

There are a few things I’ve realised though

1. I’m not as unfit as I once thought
2. My limbs aren’t hurting enough yet - I must ride more.
3. My bike needs better care and attention
4. I need cleated shoes
5. Those who drive on the roads in Berkshire are by an large a word that rhymes with bankers
6. 7.56 miles in 58.26 minutes is not bad for my first time out
7. 115.6 calories burned!

~Dan

My iMac that is, yeah this week I final sucumed and bought an iMac one of the 20 inch models. I was lucky when I went to the shop as I managed to bag myself a recent ex-display model, one with ta 256 meg graphics card and a 320 gig hard drive for a sprightly £799.

So far I’m loving the machine, especially the apple keyboard its a nice brushed metal version instead of the older plastic ones. It’s a dream to type on as the keys seem to provide just the right amount of feedback for me, I’ve been struggling to find a nice keyboard for a while now - I think my search is over. I just need to buy another few keyboards because I only have the one.

The machine itself is a dual boot machine, running Leopard and Vista Ultimate (Which I purchased the other day - my first ever non-student edition purchase of a Windows Operating System) which makes for a very nice system.

As I type this blog I’m busy setting up this copy of OSX, installing those little things I can’t live without like TextMate and Fetch. Thankfully my old .Mac account has taken care of many of my settings - its copied what my MacBook was set too so I didn’t have to spend several hours fiddling with my doc again to get it set up right. The next thing on my list to set up is MAMP so that I can get back to setting up my local copy of TFMS, BFMS and Theseus. Once that is done I’ll really kick myself back in to coding once again.

One thing I do need to do is replace my MacBook’s power supply, whilst its not as powerful as this iMac its perfectly suited to my on the road coding needs. 

Damn!

£65 for a new power supply! I feel butt hurt.

Anyway, I need to get back to setting this machine up - more soon.

~Dan

Well, for some reason I can’t access the blog software on taylord1.co.uk anymore, which means I can’t update it. That simply sucks, not having the time to fix it right now either sucks too.

It has lead me to make a switch to wordpress running on this domain for the interim, I’ll be re-directing taylord1.co.uk traffic to projectdaemon.com.

~Dan