I started writing this post some months ago back in September but never got around to finishing it. At first this post was going to be me singing my praises for Ubuntu and how well Ubuntu supports the Macbook Pro. Unfortunately in that time I’ve now moved to Mac OS X…
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Not long now until Ubuntu Ibex is released. However, I ran into this issue again this morning so I thought I’d document the solution for others.
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Well so much for getting a Sony Viao. I bit the bullet and bought a new Santa Rosa 15″ Macbook Pro in the end. After a patient 18 day wait between ordering and delivery it finally arrived last Friday.

As I’ve mentioned previously, I’m no fan of OSX so I also picked up a copy of Windows Vista. For the 48 hours I’ve used Vista it doesn’t seem to be too different. It does feel like there’s now an additional click to get everywhere, a lot of things have been moved around (but in a methodical manner).
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My preferred tool for constructing queries against MySQL databases is the command line client. One niggle that has plagued me since I started using the client was the inability to retrieve warnings that sometimes occur on queries. Read the rest of this entry »

I had an opportunity to play with Bash script on Friday. My task was to write a small deployment script to grab our server class configuration settings from subversion and rsync them to the appropriate machines.

This was easy enough, a couple of commands to subversion, rsync and some glue and I’d be done. However, an hour into writing it I wish I’d used PHP or used my time to learn how to do it in Perl. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s been almost 5 years since I last upgraded my PC. How times change, I never would have thought I’d be considering a laptop to replace a desktop machine any time soon but that’s exactly what I’m going to do. Read the rest of this entry »