http://www.mikejw.co.uk Web programmer guy en-us http://www.mikejw.co.uk/blog/item/13Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:26:13 +0100I've learnt that detaching a PHP script from the shell and allowing it run as a daemon on Ubuntu is not as simple as I first thought.  I couldn't simply add an ampersand like this: $ php ./script http://www.mikejw.co.uk/blog/item/12Thu, 20 May 2010 12:55:56 +0100It's been a long time since I figured this out and I can't remember what resource I used to help me. Anyway to get PHP Mode working with the native emacs bundled with Mac OS X do the following: $ mkdir elisp; cd elisp $ wget http://bit.ly/cLqD47 ...http://www.mikejw.co.uk/blog/item/11Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:24:20 +0100I've been using Yii framework a fair bit recently and it seems very nice so far.  However I couldn't easily find out how to get hold of these often essential pieces of information from a Yii view.  Useful in situations where you want to build a...http://www.mikejw.co.uk/blog/item/5Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:35:18 +0000Welcome to the first live site to use the latest version of my own MVC (for use with Smarty) that is now successfully running on top of PHP 5.3.  Recent work on it has been a fun ride, driven mostly out of a desire to have controller classes whose...http://www.mikejw.co.uk/blog/item/4Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:18:44 +0100As a developer, one of the great things I love about Gentoo (Linux distribution with BSD 'ports-like' package management) is the feeling it gives you that eveything you do to your system has an undo button. (For the record, I have at least come to my...