With FastCGI & default PHP, if you have PHP display_errors turned off (which in production you should), your server will return a blank HTTP status Code 200 page, with no information to the end user as to what happened.
A new php.ini directive has been added with php-frm (Due to be incorporated into PHP Trunk in [...]
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Xdebug in PHP is speeding up my debuging of code. It allows me to backtrack through errors to see which function they were originally part of. As any web product grows it is sometimes difficult to diagnose where a function call was made that resulted in an error being generated.
Below is a snippet from my [...]
Review of Version Control Systems for Linux & Windows
This is a review article on my choice of revision (version) control software.
I have never used a Version Control System
Source code already in place
I edit on Windows XP PC (although I used to develop on my Ubuntu Linux Laptop)
The Should I Date.com runs Ubuntu 8.10 Server Edition
Current [...]
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Facebook has announced that in 3 days time you will be able to select your own username. Rather than the URL in the address bar showing profile.php?id=882010516 You wil beable to have www.facebook.com/rick.seymour (Being pre-emptive!).
Call me cynical but this will allow facebook to pull in more search engine results for an individuals name. I do [...]
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Monitoring your website is a very productive way to see where traffic is coming from. To allow you to see popular search web search terms from Google / Yahoo / Bing etc and see how your posts are being indexed.
WebStats Monitoring tools
At the moment the following trackers are enabled on my site and I’ll be [...]
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Recently I used archive.org to copy blog post from back in 2007 when I started blogging (although RickSeymour.com dates back much further when it functioned as a place to store, my then, 3000 photos).
Being Transparent
If you have to hold back saying what you think you are not being honest with yourself, yes there has to [...]
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At the moment this website is a bit of a mish mash… a melting pot of ideas, which is sort of representative of the my work history has gone and the way I operate, checking out new ideas, experiencing new things… as some sort of hit and miss dart board till I get closer to [...]
This is being live typed out from a talk by AndyDickinson.net. Some of it is quoted and some is critique.
The most important piece of advice and help is “Have a go… find your feet”. Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is of low importance at the initial start for a blogger, and you should more get used [...]
Current WordPress Theme – Amazing Grace by Vladimir Prelovac
WordPress Plugins Used
AKismet – You HAVE to have some kind of Spam filter on your blog
All in One SEO Pack – Seriously, this SEO plugin works the best!!!!!!!! Just google Rick Seymour…. or.. well.. anything you see on this blog!!!
Custom Smilies –
Events Calendar – New [...]
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