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The thoughts and ramblings of an Engineer

About Me

I’m an Engineer, working for Vonage. I write about stuff that interests me - primarily Networks, Software Engineering, VoIP and Electronics. It exists in the hope that someone may learn from my thoughts and ramblings. I'm on GitHub! I'm also currently fairly active on Twitter and LinkedIn.

22 November, 2011 Blog

Solved! phpMyAdmin cannot start session without errors

This was a bit of a ridiculous error. It occurred after a PHP upgrade to 5.2.17 running under Apache with

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16 November, 2011 Blog

PHP – Obtain the maximum allowed file upload size

This was actually remarkably difficult to do, in terms of the volume of code required. It uses the fact that

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15 November, 2011 Blog

Cabling your house with cat5e… Geeky or essential?

When I bought my house, I wired it with  cable for data networking. I ran 2 cables to each of

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15 November, 2011 Blog

Solved! Debian Wheezy – SASL LOGIN authentication failed: no mechanism available

I’m not sure why I ever run an `apt-get upgrade` on Debian as I usually spend the next week fixing

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15 November, 2011 Blog

Reading a signed 64 bit integer from a file with PHP

This may be a ridiculous way to do this but I couldn’t think of anything better at the time of

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14 November, 2011 Blog

Parsing a darkstat database with PHP

This is something I wrote for the sake of interest more than necessity but I have found it quite useful

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13 November, 2011 Blog

Randomising the order of posts in WordPress

Just before ‘the loop‘ of a WordPress site, you would normally use query_posts(). Not only does this set a global

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9 November, 2011 Blog

Simple fix for low pressure or no water in electric showers – change the solenoid coil

Firstly… don’t mistaken me for a shower expert, I’m really not – I just have a pretty crappy shower which

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7 November, 2011 Blog

WordPress plugin: Wikipedia extract tooltip v1.1

I have recently attended the Firefox school of code versioning and have learned that it’s cool to release code with

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6 November, 2011 Blog

WordPress plugin: Wikipedia extract tooltip

I’ve never written a WordPress plugin before and was surprised how simple it was. I have knocked up a plugin

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