Archive for February, 2010



LAMP installation on Ubuntu with Mod_Rewrite

Published on February 10, 2010

So there is plenty of information out there about installing a standard LAMP server out there.
I’ve had a LAMP server on my Ubuntu laptop for quite some time. But i ran into troubles when I wanted to have a CakePHP installation on my local machine because I couldn’t get Apache’s mod_rewrite to work.
I’ve finally figured [...]


Why I choose Linux (part 382)

Published on February 9, 2010

My laptop is now reaching old age. It’s over 3 years old and it’s starting to get a bit clunky. Time for a new one this year sometime.
I want a 13″ laptop as portability is an issue. So I started to look at the usual laptop vendors, Toshiba (which I currently have) and HP* were [...]


Sommelier.net.au Update

Published on February 8, 2010

Just a quick note to let you know that I’ve just launched the first of my updates for Sommelier.net.au.
You can now give a bottle an overall rating, the cellar displays regions and you can now order your cellar by both regions and varieties.
There have also been a range of backend changes which should make the [...]