Author Archives: Chris

About Chris

Twenty-something year old computer science graduate living in the West Midlands, working as a PHP software developer for a local company.

Folding again

Posted on April 3, 2011 by Chris

So after a break of a few years I’ve got back into Folding, this time I’ve started from scratch discarding my old account. As of writing my new account has a score of 37304 more than doubling my previous score … Continue reading →

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November 2010 Desktop

Posted on November 7, 2010 by Chris

Edit: Forgot to press publish, oops!

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March 2010 Desktop

Posted on March 13, 2010 by Chris
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Jump In! Camp

Posted on March 13, 2010 by Chris

I’ve been invited alongside two fellow phpBB developers to attend Microsoft’s Jump In! Developers’ Campnext month in Switzerland to learn about interoperability between Microsoft’s software stacks and PHP applications. For more information on how to attend this event read on … Continue reading →

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One Down

Posted on February 18, 2010 by Chris

Well one of my gripes with Ubuntu 9.10 ‘Karmic Koala’ has been cured at least, Firebug 1.5 now works after upgrades to Firefox 3.5.8. Shame that I’ve found out my bash completion is broken.

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phpBB Hook to remove success messages

Posted on February 16, 2010 by Chris

Time for another phpBB hook, this time the aim is to remove the messages which irritate some people when a post has been made and instead redirect the user immediately to the default choice. A few considerations had to be … Continue reading →

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N900 Sharing

Posted on February 6, 2010 by Chris

Since my earlier post about sharing photos from the N900 I have discovered Pixelpipe, which includes support for Gallery2 uploads as part of a huge array of supported services. You can read more about Pixelpipe and the N900 here and … Continue reading →

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Sharing photos from N900 to Gallery2

Posted on February 1, 2010 by Chris

I recently treated myself to a new mobile phonecomputer, so I bought a Nokia N900 which eXpansys eventually shipped to me. Now to the point, you can easily share content to Facebook, Ovi, and Flickr but I maintain my own … Continue reading →

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One enormous footer

Posted on January 31, 2010 by Chris

Lloyds TSB Bank plc. Registered Office: 25 Gresham Street, London EC2V 7HN. Registered in England and Wales, number 2065. Telephone: 020 7626 1500. Bank of Scotland plc. Registered Office: The Mound, Edinburgh EH1 1YZ. Registered in Scotland, number 327000. Telephone: … Continue reading →

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Why do I bother?

Posted on January 31, 2010 by Chris

Updated my desktop from Ubuntu ‘Jaunty’ 9.04 to Ubuntu ‘Karmic’ 9.10, the upgrade process worked flawlessly. Sadly the number of regressions has kind of taken the shine of the various improvements to the distribution. The big kicker for me is … Continue reading →

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