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
AIB Irony
AIB is one of Ireland's largest banks. I use it for my personal banking, while the company also uses them for pretty much everything. I've had my issues with them in the past. Most recently their rather "nutty" handling of phone calls has really peeved me. You can read more about this here. Short version - bank rings customer to check if charges are valid, but does so … [Read more...] about AIB Irony
Minimalist Planet of the Apes T-Shirt
With the latest instalment of the Planet of the Apes currently showing in cinemas this t-shirt could be quite popular. However it's more related to the original 1968 movie (and its sequels) starring Charlton Heston More info here. … [Read more...] about Minimalist Planet of the Apes T-Shirt