http://povich.co.uk/blog Ramblings of Jim Whiteside, and some good old Norfolk squit. Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:08:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Further to earlier problems with using Apache2 on Ubuntu to proxy web requests to devices inside my local network, I think I've now sussed it. I'm now relatively confident that the appropriate way to do it would have been to enable mod_proxy and mod_proxy_http with sudo a2enmod proxy_http, this then allows ... http://povich.co.uk/blog/2010/04/proxying-with-ubuntu-apache2/ I've been thinking a lot about this recently; that most of the key changes in my life have a book associated with them, and the process of compiling this list has been quite enlightening. Maplin Electronics Catalogue - Early 1980's and I'm a schoolboy having been introduced to electronics by the ... http://povich.co.uk/blog/2010/02/books-that-changed-my-life/ Believe it or not, I don't think I really like computers - they're the most frustrating, irritating, stress inducing devices I can imagine. But, it seems I do have a particular talent for getting them to do what I, or others, want them to do. Of course I would like to ... http://povich.co.uk/blog/2010/01/dont-let-the-bd-machines-win/ There’s a sweet contentment knowing that a system is fully up to date and patched, but how uncomfortable it soon becomes when you find out there’s a new update or patch – leading to the nagging question of if / when to go through the grief of updating. On the one ... http://povich.co.uk/blog/2009/12/to-update-or-not-to-update/ This one caught me out for a good while - I've got my own data stored in a database using Drupal's Schema API and one field I want is a date, so I used the 'datetime' type. But whenever I came to use a value anywhere I couldn't get any ... http://povich.co.uk/blog/2009/09/storing-dates-in-drupal-schema-api/ I've been using Drupal in earnest since the New Year, and I have to say that I wish I'd discovered it sooner. It's by no means perfect, but I think perfection is impossible with CMS systems and it's doing everything I need it to. Initially I was sceptical about using the ... http://povich.co.uk/blog/2009/08/drupal-views-bulk-export/ So here's the thing - I heard some Lou Reed on TV last night and I realised I hadn't heard Transformer for far too long, so this afternoon I decided to finally get around to digging out and plugging all the various bits of my good-old-fashioned analogue hi-fi together again ... http://povich.co.uk/blog/2009/08/collections/ I think I've finally found an almost perfect suite of tools to monitor webserver performance and availability - it's only taken five years! The most recent discovery that has me all excited is Munin - I'd heard of it before but can't think why I've never given it a go. It's ... http://povich.co.uk/blog/2009/07/server-monitoring/ I've seen some of these charting tools in things like Google Analytics but thought it was just a gimmick, but not only is this stuff entertaining, but makes the data informative and what's more adds weight to the conclusions. Thanks to Robbie for this. http://povich.co.uk/blog/2009/05/this-guy-loves-statistics/ This post can relate to so many things - stylesheets, php code, glass fibre moulds - at some point when you've gone through a few iterations of an agile like process, you start thinking "If I'd known I was going to end up doing this, I would have started differently" When ... http://povich.co.uk/blog/2009/04/when-to-rebuild/