Dublin remains the third most expensive capital city in the EU according to a new survey out. I’d believe it too. After coming to Chicago I’m amazed at the prices here compared to Cork (which is slightly cheaper than Dublin). (Thanks Ann for the link!)
Author Archives: Donncha
Linux Games – Orbz 2.0
cpan2rpm – A Perl module packager
This looks really useful. A script that’ll convert CPAN Perl modules into RPMs. Thankfully I haven’t needed to use CPAN in a while so I haven’t had to use this yet, but I will!
Industrial Strength MVC
php|architect posted a sample article from their latest issue. It’s a tutorial introduction to MVC. You need to have a PDF viewer to read it though, fire up xpdf and you’ll be fine!
Relaunching a website..
John points at a story about relaunching websites. I dunno, It doesn’t make sense to completely revamp your site, but it still happens. We’re in the middle of a relaunch, and while the site design is going to change, the basic contents and structure isn’t. Does that count as a redesign? Incremental changes happen all the time of course, without them the site would stagnate and glaring bugs wouldn’t be fixed!
Slammed!
This story has probably made the rounds already but looks like a good read. How a worm crashed the Internet in 15 minutes. (via IRC or ILUG, can’t remember which now!)
mod_security, PHP globals, etc
I thought PHP Traveller had finished up but no, he’s still around, and pluggin his mod_security Apache module. Looks good, but I’m now 3,000 miles from our Apache dev server at work so I don’t feel like experimenting with modules as much. 🙁
QTParted – Partition Magic for Linux
Well, not quite. This is a Qt frontend to GNU parted. I have a spare 20GB hardrive here so I’ll see what it can do with that!
It’s also available as an RPM on apt-get, but I’m not sure which repository. Here’s the contents of my sources.list:
rpm ftp://apt-rpm.tuxfamily.org/apt redhat/9/en/i386 os updates extra
rpm-src ftp://apt-rpm.tuxfamily.org/apt redhat/9/en/i386 os updates extrarpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/9/i386 os updates freshrpms
rpm-src http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/9/i386 os updates freshrpmsrpm http://utelsystems.dyndns.org/apt redhat/9/en/i386 utelsystems
rpm-src http://utelsystems.dyndns.org/apt redhat/9/en/i386 utelsystems#newrpms.sunsite.dk
rpm http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/apt/ redhat/en/i386/9.0 newrpms
rpm-src http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/apt/ redhat/en/i386/9.0 newrpms
(via the ILUG!)
what a week…
Kicked off last week jet lagged by 8 or 9 hours in a plane… gah! Hostel was very nice, although I was glad when we got accomodation later in the week.
On Monday I think we went up The Sears Tower. The sky was overcast but it was still an amazing view – Mairead, sorry for ringing you from there, I know it was very later back home!
We spent Tuesday looking for an appartment. I called into the office, met Ed, Jim and others. We got to use a PC to browse appartments.com and found a few nice ones – we arranged an appointment with Carrie in Printers Square for 3pm. Unfortunately all their appartments were simply way beond our budget however.
While we mulled over our accomodation options (live in a cardboard box or an expensive studio!) back at the hostel that night we were given tickets to a baseball game that night. It was on at 7pm, we had 30 minutes to get to Wrigglyville so we rushed! I thought the tickets would be among the cheaper seats, but no, they were for a suite! We joined a line of well dressed people, and stopped outside the Fox Corporate Suite. 🙂 Opening the door, I asked, “Are we in the right place?” We were, and Brett, a marketing executive for Fox made us feel very welcome! It was the first baseball game I’ve been to, and it was brilliant! It’s the infamous one where Sammy Sousa used a corked bat and was discovered when the bat split. It’s been all over the news the past few days. I’ll post pics here tomorrow!
The John Hancock Center is amazing too, although the elevator up hurt my ears no end, and swallowing or breathing deeply never helped. Does the elevator in that building go faster than in Sears?
Finally we managed to find an appartment. It’s up north between Irving Park and Montrose and we’re sharing with 2 Irish girls and an English girl. Thankfully, they aren’t TV Soap fans!
First impressions of Chicago? It’s a great city, and I think I’m going to enjoy my time here! I’m not looking forward to the summer heat and humidity, but as long as I’m in an air conditioned office or appartment I won’t mind too much!
Oh yeah, Owen – Dream Theatre are playing here on July 19th AFAIR, I’ll let you know for sure by email!
Pinging!
I’m still around!We got accomodation a few days ago, and I start work on Monday, expect a large update then!