Archive for January, 2006

Installation Issues

January 18th, 2006

I’m sick of trying to install Windows XP Professional on my machine. My woes started with my buying an emachines desktop PC. The model name is W3107.
I got a 100GB hard disk with the system but it was running Windows XP Home - which means I can’t run either IIS or Apache - even MySQL, [...]

AuthWare Friendly Urls & Bug List

January 17th, 2006

Language - PHP
Friendly Urls
Why did I suddenly decide to create friendly Urls for AuthWare. I must tell the truth - I never really intended to. There was a stage at which I wanted to restructure it to utilise Apaches mod_rewrite.
I’ve always had this thing for not comprehending regular expressions. In fact I hardly ever use [...]

Poor Microsoft

January 14th, 2006

I just came accross this today:
Once upon a time there was a young man who wanted to become a great writer.
“I want to write things the whole world will read,” he declared. “Stuff that will elicit strong emotions from people in every walk of life. I want my writing to make them [...]

Lectures

January 13th, 2006

I’m currently having a mild attack of writer’s block so I’ve figured out a way to use my test version of AuthWare - lecture notes. That’s right.
I’m now putting all my lecture notes for the courses I’m taking this term on the web. I hope to keep them up-to-date - I really do. because I’m [...]