Month: July 2005

July 15, 2005 / Mambo / Joomla

When you are writing a custom module or component for Mambo you can have parameters which are set in the Admin control panel and feed through to the application at run time. This allows the same code to have separate instances with distinct differences.

July 14, 2005 / Other Stuff

ICE

July 13, 2005 / Other Stuff
July 11, 2005 / New Zealand

The third test is over, Clive Woodward and his boys have left and now the Barmy Army will be shipping out and heading home.

From all accounts it’s been great having you, come back anytime. We get used to hearing about soccer hooligans but it’s good to see that modus operandi doesn’t get applied to all British travelling sports fans 🙂

The major forums seem to have nasty little threads popping up left, right and centre about corruption at DMOZ. It’s hard to believe there’s anything other than the occasional individual having a go, but some are claiming orchestrated campaigns.

July 8, 2005 / Technical Discussions

One of the first things a PHP coder will bang into is Unix Timestamps and making them usable and readable. I’m currently trying to work with some very simple shell scripts in Unix and now I actually WANT raw timestamps, but noooo, can’t get them. Outrageous.

July 8, 2005 / New Zealand

Like many New Zealanders I was up late last night trying to contact family in London. Because it’s the busy summer season the city is teeming with tourists so a larger number of countries are pulled into the drama. Both my sisters are there right now. One lives there with her husband, the other is visiting with her family. My husband’s sister is there with her family. And they all have other friends who are there at the same time.

When I lived in London bomb scares and disruption were normal. You coped, you walked the miles to get from A-B etc. And when the IRA weren’t doing it the infrastructure would fail and you’d be no better off.

July 7, 2005 / New Zealand