Backstory: Got myself a first generation iPhone second hand and unlocked it to work on my existing T-Mobile (Official iPhone network in the UK is O2.) Noticed after a week or so of owning it that when you change the volume on the phone, the bezel that comes up says "ringer" across the top. But when you have headphones plugged ...

At the 2009 Barcamp Leeds I attended a talk by Neil Crosby where he talked about automated testing, and about how he felt there was a gap in everything that people were testing. Everyone has unit tests, and people are doing full stack testing too, but no-one (so he feels) does XHTML/CSS/JS validation as part of their automated test suite. ...

So I've got some js I've written to update a couple of <select> lists in a form, and it was all working fine for me (under Safari.) John happened to mention it wasn't working for him under Firefox, so I fired up Firefox and took a look. Could reproduce it perfectly, changing the first popup was populating the second one, ...

Before I start, I'll just quickly run through where I put stuff on my server. Apache logs and config are in the ubuntu default folders: /var/log/apache2 and /etc/apache2/ respectively.

So I have this command in my $PATH, apachectl. Because I'm on a mac and I've installed apache2 through MacPorts, the command that gets found first is my macports install in /opt. Up until now I've always known that which apachectl will find that location, but to find any other locations of apachectl I'd usually use locate and egrep...