Mr N

I'm working on a PHP web site and I want to add a user authentication component. In the past I've written hundreds of these things and couldn't be bother to write the same code all over again. You know the story: create user table in the database, add a… more »

I had just had a bit of an "oh shit" moment! So thought I'd blog how I got out of it. Parallels is the company that produces Plesk. On the whole it's a pretty good bit of server software which helps to manage a single machine that supports many virtu… more »

CentOS 5.5 is dependant on Python 2.4. Everything will break if you change it, so we must install a newer version of Python in a different place. Surprisingly my 1&1 CentOS didn't come with gcc installed so I had to install it myself. yum -y i… more »

Been having a look at OpenID. It seems like a really good idea. I have loads of user names and passwords to all the support sites on the internet. You try and pick the same one on each but occasionally there is another joebloggs out there who steals your… more »

When moving from Ensim to Plesk I noticed that all my PHP programs stopped working. Every relative pathed file I had added to a require() statement errorred with the message: open_basedir restriction in effect I added the current directory ('.') to… more »