by Peter Connolly | Aug 29, 2014 | Drupal, featured
Working in Drupal, we often pull databases from different environments for debugging and general development. Every time we did that, we had to update the files locations in /admin/config/media/file-system. It only takes a few seconds to update, but it’s a pain....
by Peter Connolly | Jul 1, 2012 | featured, Zend
Zend doesn’t always give the most accurate error messages. Here’s a great example I found today; I moved a Zend site on my server, and everything looked OK until I tried to run it; when it gave me the following useful message; ...
by Peter Connolly | May 25, 2012 | featured, PhpED
Here’s a nice easy solution to a schoolboy error I hit this morning… I decided to upgrade my copy of PhpED up to the latest edition – 7.0, build 7027. I was previously on build 7023, so there weren’t that many changes – but being a...
by Peter Connolly | Oct 13, 2011 | featured, technology
As we complete transferring clients to our new servers, the last stage is always the setting up of email; this post shows how to set up email for Google Apps. Note that menu options are show as a chain; so Tools->Options->Advanced would mean find the menu...
by Peter Connolly | Jun 14, 2011 | featured, MySQL
One of a short series of posts listing useful MySQL commands that I use frequently when managing servers and databases. These come in useful when I don’t have access to Navicat, my favored tool for working with client databases. The assumption I make is that you...
by Peter Connolly | Jun 10, 2011 | featured, Ruby on Rails
When playing with Thinking Sphinx (the Ruby on Rails wrapper for the open source Sphinx search server), I decided to try to see if I could perform an injection attack on the server. Here’s the bad news: Yes, I could modify searches by changing the parameters...
