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libevent-2.0.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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

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My last thoughts on Symfony2

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

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My first thoughts on Symfony2

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

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How to stop Joomla Media Manager making your image names lowercase!

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

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PHP-FPM crashes using PHP 5.3.6 with Nginx

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

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Rewriting subdomains to the Document Root in Nginx

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

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Ubuntu 11.04 libjpeg.so libpng.so PHP installation issues

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

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Nginx 1.0.0 is out!

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

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Joomla Lockdown Script for Apache

One of the main problems with Joomla is that if you use an old version or a bad component, you open your server up to being hacked. I’ve had to fix this problem time and time again. It’s not fun, … Continue reading

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Running with MySQL 5.5

I’ve got the latest version of MySQL installed and running. I’ve spent quite a few hours setting up and configuring my servers. I’ve custom written my firewall scripts and finely tuned them (to the best of my ability) for my … Continue reading

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