Every few days the tech media gets all excited about some new startup. People clamour to get access to the new product, service or platform. Thousands of articles are written hailing it as the new "solution" for a "problem". In many cases the solution is for a problem most of us didn't even know we had .. Ok. I am a little cynical. Not all startups are vacuous. There … [Read more...] about Why I’m Glad We’re Not Venture Backed
Istanbul Colours and Flavours
I spent a week in Istanbul, though I only really got to explore the city for two days. The city is fascinating. It's also incredibly big, so unless you're prepared to walk a lot you won't get to see that much! I spent the Saturday and Sunday I was there exploring some of the sights with friends and while I was exhausted after two days I was also really … [Read more...] about Istanbul Colours and Flavours
Respect The Cultural Rules
I'm currently spending a couple of days wandering around Istanbul. It's a fascinating city where Islam and Christianity co-exist. But you have to respect Islamic rules when you want to visit their historic religious sites: … [Read more...] about Respect The Cultural Rules
Vbulletin 4.22 – Another PHP 5.5 “Gotcha”
Following on from my issues with Zend loader.. So one of my sites, which runs VBulletin 4.22, stopped working after the upgrade at the weekend. I assumed I'd done something silly and the Apache error logs weren't being particularly helpful: [Sat Aug 23 18:01:56.661206 2014] [authz_core:error] [pid 6523] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:49939] AH01630: client denied by server … [Read more...] about Vbulletin 4.22 – Another PHP 5.5 “Gotcha”
Zend Loader Not Available For PHP 5.5
Yesterday I finally got round to upgrading one of my servers to the latest Ubuntu LTS - 14.04 Trusty Tahr. There are a few "gotchas" with the upgrade that I might cover in a separate post, but the biggest one isn't Ubuntu's fault or PHP's fault. Zend, for some odd reason, haven't released a compatible version of their loader for any PHP version of the 5.5* series. … [Read more...] about Zend Loader Not Available For PHP 5.5