Monthly Archives: June 2012

Part1: http://blog.simpleigh.com/2012/06/virtualisation/ Part 2: http://blog.simpleigh.com/2012/06/migration-aches-and-pains/ Now my diary is settling in on its new server, I thought I’d add a couple of thoughts: It now runs far faster, feeling much more snappy and responsive. No other users are competing for server resources, and the server’s a lot nearer (Ireland rather than the US). NameCheap have […]

I recently migrated my diary to a new server, and was amused by some of the problems I faced doing so. Deploying PHP applications should be a simple affair – set up the database, upload the code – but moving to a newer version of the language brought many problems. PHP now bothers to check […]

A link recently bubbled up the frontpage of Hacker News, and I found myself rather curious to find out more. The headline rather proudly proclaimed: “RJSON: compress JSON to JSON”. JSON is a useful and simple way of transmitting data between machines on the Internet, and is commonly-used by many dynamic websites today (see Wiki […]

I’ve been gradually starting to migrate bits of this site over to a VPS (Virtual Private Server) hosted on Amazon’s AWS. I’d originally come across the concept of a VPS at a previous job which had been offered a Slicehost instance for test purposes. While I’d experimented with Ubuntu on the desktop before, and had used a Linux […]

Current wpm: 98. I’ve been enjoying trying to get my particular flavour of Dvorak working on Linux, and will post more details of how it’s going in the near future…