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Dedicated and enthusiastic Zend Certified Software Engineer, Prince2 Qualified/Agile Project Manager and Founder of Recensus.com. London born, but currently living and working in Santiago on the Start-Up Chile accelerator.
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WordPress Auto Updates without FTP on Ubuntu

WordPress Auto Updates without FTP on Ubuntu

June 17, 2012 · by Leonard Austin · in Technical

I enjoy the wordpress autoupdates or plugins, themes and core however when I moved a blog to an ubuntu server it kept asking me for the ftp details (which I did not have). So after a bit of looking around…

How to install mcrypt  on mac osx10.7 and osx10.6

How to install mcrypt on mac osx10.7 and osx10.6

June 5, 2012 · by Leonard Austin · in Technical

There a lot of php opensouce software that requires mcrypt and it took me a few hours to get mcrypt installed and working natively on my mac, after reading many many tutorials. I originally tried to go down the homebrew…

British Red Cross

British Red Cross

June 2, 2012 · by Leonard Austin · in Portfolio

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A bespoke ecommerce website with CMS. Full integration with a 3rd party fulfilment company utilising their API and payment gateway. Branding and design kept in line with Red Cross brand…

Install APC on Mac OSX10.7

June 2, 2012 · by Leonard Austin · in Technical

Install Command Line Xcode https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action# Install homebrew https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/installation Install Autoconf brew install autoconf Update Pear Channels sudo pear update-channels Install PCRE brew install pcre Install APC! sudo pecl install apc Add extension=apc.so to the /etc/php.ini file

Install pear on mac OSX10.7

June 2, 2012 · by Leonard Austin · in Technical

After upgrading to OSX 10.7, I discovered that both PEAR and PECL had gone. After some considerable searching online Ruggero De Pellegrini on Google+, so I’m putting it here for anyone who needs it (including myself when I get a…

PHP How to convert all links to have target blank

May 31, 2012 · by Leonard Austin · in Technical

I needed to convert all links to have target blank if they didn’t already have it. I was going to go down the str_pos and str_replace etc but DOMCocument is a much quicker and easier route. See below: function addTargetBlankToLinks($html)…

Sendmail on Ubuntu

January 7, 2012 · by Leonard Austin · in Technical

Install Sendmail on Ubuntu I also need my php applications to be able to send our email using the mail function. Therefore I need to install sendmail and enable it in my php.ini file. Install Sendmail apt-get install sendmail Check…

Changing Plesk Fast CGI to Apache PHP with ZF

December 1, 2011 · by Leonard Austin · in Technical

So recently I’ve had to change the php mode from Fast CGI to Apache Module in plesk due to the http authenticate functions in php not working. This caused my Zend Framework website to produce a 500 error, in my…

Install APC on Xampp

September 6, 2011 · by Leonard Austin · in Technical

This is how I installed APC on Xampp on Windows 7 Go to this webpage: http://downloads.php.net/pierre/ READ THIS BIT CAREFULLY AS THE WEBSITE ABOVE IS CONSTANTLY UPDATED. Look for a file that starts with “php_apc” and then something like “-3.1.10″…

Share Folders on Unbuntu VBox with Windows

August 27, 2011 · by Leonard Austin · in Technical

These instructions assure you are using Windows as your host and Ubuntu as the client machine. I am using vbox 4 and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I had loads of issues getting this to work with other tutorials and forum posts….

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