Last year I wrote a brief post about my first trip to the Manchester based PHP developer conference, PHPNW10. It’s now almost a year later and this years conference is just 1 month away so I think it’s about time I did a little plug for them and try to convince anyone that stumbles upon […]
PHPNW Conference 2010
Last weekend I attended a PHP developer conference here in Manchester hosted by PHPNW. PHPNW is a community of web developers, web designers and anyone else interested in PHP, from the North West of England, who come together once a month to talk with similar like minded people and have a pint or two. The […]
Turn off open_basedir in Plesk
I’m adding this post, mainly for my own reference but thought it may be of interest for others with the same problem. The problem Plesk unhelpfully ignores the base url set in the php.ini file with its own settings, but these settings are not configurable from the control panel. The Solution Create a “vhost.conf” file […]
PHPNW Conference 2010 is approching
I just wanted to do a little shout out to any developers, to say that the early bird ticket deadline is fast approaching for this years PHPNW conference. Tickets have been on sale for a while now at £58 (ex VAT) but this will go up on the 12th August to £75 so if your […]
preventing SPAM
Since I moved to my VPS, one of the biggest problems I’ve had is with spam. Not just with my email account but everyone who’s email accounts Im hosting on the VPS have all seen a sharp increase in spam emails. On the reseller server I had access to grey-listing and SpamAssassin to filter mail […]