On January the 1st 2012 I posted that I will being running the 2012 Bristol 10k . Well, today me and a mate crossed the finish line with a time of one hour fifteen minutes and six seconds. We stopped once after the 5km mark and a few more stops around the 7-9km markers. Below ... Read More
PHP 5.2.x does not include a inbuilt function to convert the first character of a string to lowercase. To achieve this, the first character needs to be accessed by its index, converted to lowercase using the built in method strtolower. The returned value then replaces the characters index in the original string. PHP version 5.3.x ... Read More
Three weeks ago I made the switch from Android to Windows Phone 7 and I’m reasonably impressed by the Windows operating system. However I have listed a few useability improvements which I would like to see in the next version. Charging When my old Android phone was on charge it would emit a small red ... Read More
I posted recently about the HTML5 work shop I went to at DevWeek and mentioned that I was going to write more about the subject when I had explored some of the API’s. Well today I was playing with the canvas API and would like to demonstrate how to use paths. Below is simple 3D ... Read More
Yesterday (March 26th) I went to a HTML5 pre conference at Dev Week 2012. The HTML5 workshop was hosted by Jeff Prosise, a well renowned web developer and a expert in web based programming languages such as JavaScript and HTML5. The following is a short summary of some of the things I took away from ... Read More
On February the 28th this year I passed the first of two exams for LPIC-1. After the exam I wrote a few pointers on how to prepare and approach the next exam (LPIC 102) . Below are a few expanded notes from this list. The format The exam is 90 minutes long and consists of ... Read More
Imagine you have two files, the first is a list of customers (customers.csv) and the second is a list of products (order_items.csv) that the customers have purchased. You’ve been given the challenge to list all products that a specific customer has purchased and order the output by the products price. This article will demonstrate the ... Read More
Both Debian and RPM based package management systems have utility’s that allow packages to be downloaded and not installed. These packages can then be installed later. This is useful if you have limited bandwidth or if you want to perform an upgrade on several systems which have the same package structure at a later time. ... Read More
I found this video on the linuxmagazineacademy’s youtube channel. The speaker (Ross Brunson) is the trainer for Linux Magazine Academy LPIC-1 online training program. In this video Ron raises some good points on how to prepare for the LPIC-1 exam (Which I am taking later this year). Ron outlines the does and dont’s when studying ... Read More
On Sunday the 20th of May 2012, me and a running mate are going to take part in the 10k race at Bristol. Now my normal run is a measly 3.8 km which pales in comparison to the distance that I will be running. However I’m pleased with the current progress and there’s 23 weeks ... Read More
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