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 »

While B2Evolution's search and back office interfaces are excellent they cater for the general use case. Search is a good example of this as there are many things to search for but a limited amount of search criteria in the interface. There are also tas… 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 »