Author Archives: nigel

When installing Memcached on a machine I came across the following error when I tried to start it: memcached: error while loading shared libraries: libevent-2.0.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory The solution for this on … Continue reading →

Well I’ve been playing with Symfony2 for 3 months now and today is the day I’m officially turning my back on the Symfony project. I played around and built several small things just to see how it worked. I found … Continue reading →

I’ve been playing with Symfony2 for a little while now and I think I’m starting to get on top of it. When I started looking at Symfony2 I’d never used an ORM or a templating language before as well as … Continue reading →

I recently developed a simple module that loaded in images automatically based off a folder/file structure in the images folder. The name of the file would dictate the caption underneath the image requiring names of files to be descriptive and … Continue reading →

I recently spent a few hours smashing my head against my keyboard trying to figure out why PHP-FPM was dying every time I tried to load my favourite framework. The cause ended up being APC. Versions 3.1.9 and 3.1.8 don’t … Continue reading →

I spent a little bit of time on this today getting my development environment working this morning on my new laptop. I wanted to be able to create a new folder inside a directory and not have to create a … Continue reading →

I purchased a new laptop today. After about a week of research and looking at various options I decided on an HP DV6-6026TX. So for the laptop has been an absolute joy to work with. The first thing I did … Continue reading →

I just happened to check the Nginx website today and discovered that version 1.0.0 stable has been released! I immediately downloaded it and updated my web server. So far so good, I’m currently rebuilding my Nginx conf files for my … Continue reading →