Honda VFR 800 review

Honda VFR 800 review

I’ve ridden a few bikes over the past couple of years including a Yamaha Fazer 600, a Honda CB 500 and a CBR 600 (a few times now). I was really looking forward to trying out the VFR as I thought it would offer a similar ride to the CBR 600 but with some extra …

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Implementing Iterator in PHP 5

Implementing Iterator in PHP 5

There’s a good article on sharepoint about implementing Iterator in PHP 5: http://www.sitepoint.com/article/php5-standard-library/1. I’ve used it a couple of times now and it’s a great way to treat objects as collections. More info about the Standard PHP Library can be found here: Standard PHP Library with a link to download a windows chm help file …

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MySQL load data infile and foreign key constraints

MySQL load data infile and foreign key constraints

I’ve been up against a(nother) MySQL 4/PHP 5 ‘not doing all I want it to’ type problem. This time, it involved trying to do a bulk update on potentially tens of thousands of lines. Now, I don’t want to do an INSERT for each line and I’ve already written some classes to handle outputting data …

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Motorbike hire in east London

Motorbike hire in east London

I usually hire motorbikes from a place called Raceways in Surrey Quays, East London but a) it’s quite expensive, and b) they’re the wrong side of the river. I’m going to be on a Honda VFR800 this weekend I’d definitely be interested in finding something a bit closer, though, but East London doesn’t seem particularly …

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Hiring an ASP.Net developer

Hiring an ASP.Net developer

My company is looking for an ASP.Net developer, so here seems as good a place as any to put an ad. Job description below: London based Internet development company seeks permanent ASP.NET developer with an absolute minimum of 1.5 years production experience. Desktop application programming and web services experience are a must as is extensive …

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PHP 5 garbage collection

PHP 5 garbage collection

The object-oriented features of PHP 5 are a really positive step forward for the language. One of the biggest improvements, to my mind, is that you no longer have to choose to pass things around by reference with a liberal smattering of ‘&’ symbols: references are now the default way of passing objects. One problem …

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Sony Clie and Nokia 6600 infra red GPRS internet settings

Sony Clie and Nokia 6600 infra red GPRS internet settings

Instructions for connecting the Sony Clie UX50 to the internet via GPRS through a Nokia 6600’s infra red port. I’m on the Orange phone network so some of the settings may be specific to this. I also assume your phone already works with internet/GPRS by itself and has a connection called ‘orangeinternet’ set up (which …

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the5k.org web page competition

the5k.org web page competition

The 5k web page competition looks like it might finally be getting going again. News about it is here: Siggraph’s 5k competition. However, I’m somewhat confused as the closing date in the right hand side column is set at July 14th 2004, yet the application form has July 14th 2005. Does anyone have any ideas …

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Sony Clie and Nokia 6600 bluetooth gprs internet access

Sony Clie and Nokia 6600 bluetooth gprs internet access

I’ve been spending quite a lot of time trying to get internet access from my Sony Clie through a Nokia 6600 mobile phone’s bluetooth connection and have had some minor success but still not been able to get it to work completely. A major break through came with getting infra-red access (taking a step back …

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At last I’ve gotten round to writing something!

At last I’ve gotten round to writing something!

Having signed up for blogger back in september 2003 it’s now taken me just over a year to get round to writing a first proper post. A short intro: I’m a director of a web development company called Exponetic based in Bethnal Green, London. If you haven’t been to Bethnal Green: it’s a marvellous place. …

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