The Blog of Leonard Challis

FPDF updated to PHP 5 with PSR 1 and 2 (ish)

Leonard — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 22:05:55 +0000

I’ve recently been tasked with taking a paper-based system online; a classic use-case for a billion and one programs before it. One of the (legal) requirements of the system is that it must be able to produce the paper-based version of the system, in case the users have to produce it at any given time. [...]

EE by gum… Three are about to throw a big 4G spanner in the works

Leonard — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 15:28:21 +0000

I’m a couple of days late to this news, but Three has quietly popped out a press release regarding their stance on 4G LTE. As you will have seen from the mind-numbingly cringe-worthy adverts with Mr Bacon, EE (Everything Everywhere, the merger [...]

10 things I’d like to see in the next generation of Apple products

Leonard — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 05:12:57 +0000

I’m fond of Apple products. They’re not perfect, but for me they’re the closest to being so. I don’t like to get caught up in the fan-boy wars that you see the comments of posts riddled with, if someone prefers an alternative brand, brilliant, go do that quietly. But what I do want to share [...]

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Leonard — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:37:57 +0000

It’s been quiet around here recently! A lot has been happening, mind, I’ve been swamped with projects, the biggest one getting this feller up and running…

My wife and I welcomed our son in to the world on the 11/12/12 (tell me about it) and we’re absolutely thrilled to be inundated with nappies, baby wipes [...]

Use Propel with Plesk

Leonard — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:21:12 +0000

Welcome to another post in the “how to hack X to make it worth with Plesk” series. I’ve been working with Propel quite a bit recently, and I must admit it’s fantastic. But while deploying some code using it to a server running Plesk, I found there was very little information on the web interested [...]

Sync a clipboard manager across multiple machines

Leonard — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 16:49:46 +0000

I’m tremendously busy at the minute, with several large projects on and a baby due in December, but I realise I’ve been neglecting this blog a little bit, so here’s a short tip for anyone who uses their clipboard to copy an paste stuff — which I’m sure is the vast majority of you! When [...]

Broken Sword 5: The Serpent’s Curse

Leonard — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 18:01:53 +0000

I cast my memory back well over a decade ago, before the turn of the millenium, when I was a young, innocent boy, just getting in to computers. I was sleeping over at a friend’s house, who had a Sony Playstation. We certainly couldn’t afford one of these consoles, but I could spend hours at [...]

How To Disable Karoo’s DNS Assist By Using Alternative DNS Servers In Your Router Settings

Leonard — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 13:14:12 +0000

To skip the moaning, you can go straight to the too long; didn’t read part.

Kingston Communications seem to be have been redefining their own destiny over the last couple of years, by improving their products and customer service. As someone who’s only been living in Hull on and off for [...]

Using Propel with WampServer

Leonard — Sun, 06 May 2012 00:38:42 +0000

One of the more unfortunate things I have to do is work with WampServer. Fair enough, the bulk is just standard Apache/MySQL/PHP configuration, but when it comes to support, available resources and just generally having to work in such a limited operating system, it can be a little depressing. Luckily not everything is impossible in [...]

Dropbox with Plesk

Leonard — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:12:05 +0000

Those who have seen my previous posts know I am a huge fan of Dropbox. If you’ve been living in a microwave for the last five years and aren’t lucky enough to be using, or low and behold, heard of it, yet, Dropbox is a backup and [...]