I’ve been working on a number of large websites recently all of which have been developed on-top of my own web application framework called RocketPack. RocketPack is a simple to learn and code-on MVC framework written in PHP, in my opinion (but then again I guess I’m biast) contains a nice set of utility classes […]
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Installing Tomcat 7 on MacOSX
I’ve made the switch over to Apple on my development machines and as I’m starting my new company soon I’ve got myself a new MacBook Pro machine of which I will be transporting to and from the office so I’ve been installing my entire development on it and thought I’d blog about how to set-up […]
Recently I purchased a new home server of which I am using to backup both my iMac and MacBook Pro, I thought I’d quickly document how I achieved this for future reference and also to help others too! – Both my Apple Mac computers are running Apple MacOSX 10.7 (Lion).. Firstly we need to install […]
We’ll I’ve treated myself again, mainly to be used for my ‘company’ work when I leave my current job in September… I’ll be leaving to work for myself and have a couple of projects on the back burner and a few customers already which is great! – I did this for my iMac so I […]
This tutorial is mainly for Ubuntu Server 12.04, meaning I’ve implemented and tested it fully on a Ubuntu 12.04 server this will more than likely work on other versions of Ubuntu/Debian based distro’s too though! So, whats this tutorial all about then… well this allows you to run your own (private) Git Server using WebDAV […]
What is Memcache ? Memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load. What is APC ? APC Cache (Eaccelerator and other similar caches) is fast but it is not distributed so you’re wasting cache and reducing possible hit rate by caching things locally […]
After recently changing my personal VPS over from a Ubuntu 11.04 system to a CentOS 6.2 I needed to setup a new git repository server of which I will be using for all of my private git repositories instead of hosting them over at Github, Github is perfect for all my open-source (non-private) project but […]
I’ve been using FreeBSD a lot more recently and have built a VPN server so that myself and some friends can play some LAN games over the web, I know you can use other tools such as Hamanchi but I thought I’d setup my own VPN as I can use it for other things too […]
Although I don’t really use Adobe Dreamweaver for web development (although if i’m doing interface design where I need a quick way to alter and view CSS changes fast I do) a friend of mine the other day (who uses Dreamweaver heavily) wanted to know how to re-enable the old JSP (Java Server Page) support […]
So after two weeks of bug fixing by myself and Rustus and the guys from the ‘Support Team’, this evening I’ve released Beta7, this includes the very last major changes for ZPX (the bandwidth calculation, disk usage stats etc.) and also fixes an issue with the webmail client (Roundcube) So I’m pleased to say that […]