Installing PHP-Gtk and PHP 5.2 and Pear on Windows in April 2010

April 15th, 2010

After battling for some hours I have managed to install php-gtk with PHP  …

I stared at words for a while and then wondered what would happen if we gave a pen to a bee

April 10th, 2010

I was writing some notes and stopped to have a break. As I …

Setting the referrer in SimpleTest web tests - faking the HTTP_REFERER

April 8th, 2010

Sometimes you might want to make a PHP web page do different things …

Using the Internet’s question and answer communities on April Fool’s day

April 1st, 2010

Using the Internet’s question and answer communities on April Fool’s day puts you …

I wonder how much of the water, that evaporated off Venus, got caught as the icy rings of Saturn?

March 31st, 2010

I wonder how much of the water, that evaporated off Venus, got caught …

Lucky to be Wellderly going forward

March 28th, 2010

It seems that public sector workers have come to assume that, if you …

just an idea - “take a photo of the sky day” - equinox 2010

March 18th, 2010

Would it not be great if, one night, a community of people stood …

Why does the Earth’s tilt do a ‘do si do’ around the Sun as opposed tilting consistently?

March 18th, 2010

I have never quite fathomed this question. It seems to get ignored when …

Man versus Robot - man’s war against robots has already started and its different to what i expected

March 4th, 2010

I have just filled in a few web forms and on each one …

A PHP secret to understanding Data Mapper Pattern in Fowler’s Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (PoEAA)

February 9th, 2010

Here’s a snippet of a Java code example in Fowler’s esteemed  book, Patterns …