http://blog.phpguy.org just another random geek... Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:42:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As most geeks are, I'm a huge fan of Sci-Fi. Specifically my favourite has been Stargate SG-1; it takes pride of place in my DVD collection and i've watched all 10 series a number of times now. For that reason I was saddened today to hear that the actor that plays ... http://blog.phpguy.org/2008/07/03/rip-don-s-davis/ I've recently been playing around with some of the great Cisco IP phone hardware, and recently I was able to pick up a 7961G at a good price from Ebay. Soon after, I grabbed a 7960G also for a good price too, but that's a story for another day :) Well, ... http://blog.phpguy.org/2008/07/01/cisco-7961g-and-ctlsep-tlv-file/ After only a minor amount of study, today I took the Zend Certified Engineer (ZCE) exam at Excom. I was able to pass the test successfully on the first try! To prepare for the exam, I took a number of steps that may or may not work for you. I've been ... http://blog.phpguy.org/2008/06/13/im-zend-certified/ Setting up my Asterisk box I was tired of hitting the voicemail button to test the server, so I thought i'd find something a little more comical to test with. Ah ha! I thought, as I remember back to the classic episode 'King Size Homer'; where Homer's goal was to weight ... http://blog.phpguy.org/2008/06/04/classic-simpsons/ Recently I was offered the opportunity to review two PHP books from Apress, and from the list of options provided one that particularly struck my interest was the book Beginning PHP and Oracle: From Novice to Professional by W. Jason Gilmore and Bob Bryla. Read on for more.. Published in August ... http://blog.phpguy.org/2008/06/04/book-review-apress-beginning-php-and-oracle/ Today marks 14 years since the life of the great Ayrton Senna was claimed at Imola in the 1994 Formula 1 Grand Prix. Still today, I marvel at Senna's brilliance as a driver and believe that even today, he has never been matched. Rest in Peace, Ayrton Senna. http://blog.phpguy.org/2008/05/01/rip-ayrton-senna/ Last night before heading off to bed I decided to try Apple's FileVault encryption on my MacBook Pro in an attempt to protect the data in my laptop's home directory. Setup was simple and painless, and this morning I was presented with a login screen to allow me to login ... http://blog.phpguy.org/2008/04/26/apple-filevault-and-apache-http-server/ So, I just found out my 12 month contract wont be renewed in June, due to a lack of work coming in around that time. So far this 10 months here at Education.au have been great, worked with a lot of great people in my team and in other teams and ... http://blog.phpguy.org/2008/04/11/looking-for-work/ I've been working on an Object Oriented PHP5 Framework in my spare time since before many of the current frameworks were around, it's been around 2 years now since I started coding (mainly in my spare time). I'm now considering releasing the code to the world as Open Source (licence ... http://blog.phpguy.org/2008/04/09/another-php5-framework/ Not the SPAM you're deleting from your Inbox every day, the SPAM that is comprised of Solaris, PHP, Apache and MySQL. These articles are for my own usage more than anything, but perhaps someone else will find it useful so I though I'd blog it. While Sun Solaris is a kickarse ... http://blog.phpguy.org/2008/03/29/building-a-spam-box-part-1/