As dry as the subject of PHP configuration is, I thought a blog entry was necessary as I’ve just spent a fair bit of time digging around to find a way to configure PHP directives on a per-site basis. The mechanisms available vary based on the runtime environment and the method PHP runs.
My problem was [...]
I’ve been having a bit of a play with Word 2010 since its release on MSDN to see if any improvements have been made in the area of reference management. Unfortunately it seems not a great deal has changed. So, instead, here’s a feature wish-list and how you can get by currently on some of the points [...]
Tagged jabref, reference manager, word 2010I spent a little bit of time yesterday trying to code up a file progress bar for a project requiring large uploads. It seems the best (and the only?) way to do this in PHP is to use an extension called the Alternative PHP Cache, which amongst other things enables file upload status support and [...]
Tagged apc, php, zend, zend server ceA couple of weeks ago I picked up an Acer Revo on the cheap as a replacement for my old behemoth of a HTPC. The Revo is a “nettop” with netbook parts in a slimline case not much bigger than many routers currently on the market.
I picked up the basic version with 1GB RAM, and [...]
Tagged acer revo, boxee, htpc, windows 7Apologies for those of you trying to access my blog over the past couple of days: normal service has now resumed after getting severely let down by my old web host. Luckily I had some recent (but not fully up to date) backups so all bar a couple of the posts are intact. I’ll recreate [...]
If you want to be able to include Visio drawings within your LyX documents, the process is relatively painless as you can export the drawing as a PDF and embed the PDF directly into the document.
First, create your diagram in Visio as normal. Then, click File > Page Setup, select the Page Size tab and [...]
PDF’s generated with pdflatex, the pdf generator for LaTeX documents which is used by default in LyX, cannot be commented on directly through the use of Adobe Reader alone (currently as of version 9). See http://www.tug.org/pipermail/pdftex/2008-August/007802.html for a good explanation for this. To enable this feature using only Adobe products you need to run the [...]
Tagged commenting, pdf, TeXAs an update to my “hello world” kernel module article, there is a much easier way to set up your Debian-based Linux (including Ubuntu) to build kernel modules, without manually getting the relevant kernel headers using apt-get.
I’ve tested this process with Ubuntu 8.04, 9.04 and 9.10 and it works great. Do the following to set [...]
When writing for publication, you may be offered a .cls file from the journal in question in which to format a TeX document to their specification. Whilst this works great in TeX, usually by copying the class.cls file in your working directory where all your .tex files reside and adding \documentclass{class} in the preamble (before [...]
Tagged cls, lyx, TeXI keep all my media in a central location on a network store but I want to be able to play it on my iphone when I’m away without network connectivity. Most of the content is avi/divx/xvid which the iphone does not play natively.
Handbrake is a really slick transcoder which converts a wide number of [...]
