Merry Christmas to all of you out there, some of you are close and some of you are far.

So special greetings go to my Dad (even though you are far away we are thinking about you and miss you lots)

Well guess I should stop being “rude” and leave the pc alone for a little bit, hope you all have an awesome day surrounded by people you love and great food.

And so I write some code today

<?php
   $holiday = new Holiday('Christmas');
   $holiday->celebrate();
   $holiday->eatLotsOfFood();
   $holiday->beMerry();

lolz

Well instead of using GROUP_CONCAT I’m now selecting the id’s individually, and this is now working.

Also there seems to be a limit on the number of items you can have in a IN clause: SELECT * FROM table WHERE field IN (xxx,xxx,xxx) so I’ve had to split these into 1000 peice chunks.

All seems to be working now after that, we’ll see how it goes…

Well recently I was having an issue with the color output:

<config ~/.gitconfig>
[color]
ui = auto
</config>

After enabling colors I was getting the following:

#       ESC[31mmodified:   cms/config.phpESC[m

And then I found an entry on the GitFaq which fixed the issue

<config ~/.gitconfig>
[core]
pager = less -FXRS
</config>

Hope this helps someone else having the same issue.

Thanks go here and here.

Basically I just followed the first link to get the server up, and the second to get a web client running.

I did have a couple of issues with the web client, but I will try to document them at another date… (well I need to reinstall the server soon)

Now just to get jabber to talk to the outside world

Well I’m not finding the time to update the code for this site, and also why reinvent the wheel.

Well lets see how this goes, hopefully we stick with it for a while

PS. This also means that comments are once again enabled, and soon to come Flickr

If people used all the energy that they use to fill the internet with spam, for good the world would be a better place!!!

Going to recreate reddevil.co.za using symfony aswell, hopefully this will be quick, and will make maintainance a lot easier

I also decided to try GIT. It also looks good so far, finally managed to setup a central git repository, I know this is kinda against the point of git. But I like the idea of having a local repository that I can commit changes to and then once happy with all the commits I can send them to the central repo

If you have are registered on http://site.gravatar.com/ and you use your email address when leaving a comment, then your gravitar is shown next to your name…

This was suprisingly simple to setup…

I used MySQL to supply me the MD5 but the solution on there site is:

PHP

Implementing gravatars with PHP is quite simple. PHP provides both md5() and urlencode() functions, allowing us to create the gravatar URL with ease. Assume the following data:

    $email = "someone@somewhere.com";
    $default = "http://www.somewhere.com/homestar.jpg";
    $size = 40;

You can construct your gravatar url with the following php code:

    $grav_url = "http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?".
                "gravatar_id=".md5($email).
                "&default=".urlencode($default).
                "&size=".$size;

Once the gravatar URL is created, you can output it whenever you please:

    print("<img src=\"{$grav_url}\" alt=\"\" />");

I have decided on a MVC type framework, which means everything is vary modular, and it’s alot quicker to create new modules

Well best I finish the last couple of tweaks