LornaJane

About LornaJane


I'm Lorna "lornajane" Mitchell, PHP consultant, developer, writer and speaker, and this is my personal site. I have an interest in all things technical and especially involving web development, data, and best practice. I write here about all sorts of things that I run into, events that I'm attending, and sometimes also about my house renovation project, garden or crafts.

Since going freelance in July 2010 I'm looking out for interesting projects, whether they are development, teaching, writing, or if you just need to borrow me for a few days to set something up - I'm always happy to hear about interesting things I can be involved with. Simply email me lorna@lornajane.net or call 0113 815 3381 and we can take it from there.

I'm often at events, local ones such as GeekUp, BarCamp, and the Girl Geek Dinners, as well as the PHPNW user group in Manchester which I help to organise along with its annual conference. I'm also deeply involved with phpwomen.org and am a regular on the PHP Conference circuit. If you're looking for my published articles, slides, or upcoming speaking engagements, see More Lornajane in the left hand bar.

To get in touch you can choose any of the options from the contact page.
LornaJane
2010-08-15

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Tyrone about PHP5 Soap Server
Thu, 02.09.2010 14:14
Hi Lorna Jane, Thanks for all this – the info on PHP and Soap on the Net is a total mess. Some choosing to to use nusoap.php – which now doesnt even exist anymore. Great work using this method I was up and running very quickly. However – this method only shows a call passing one paramet [...]
LornaJane about Wordpress Automatic Update Asking for FTP
Wed, 01.09.2010 13:03
Thanks so much to everyone that has dropped in and said that this tip is working for them – I had to refer back to this myself the other day to remind me how to get around the FTP prompt!
sherra about Wordpress Automatic Update Asking for FTP
Fri, 27.08.2010 04:17
great insight. thank you. I moved my blog and forgot what I needed to do to avoid ftp. your suggestion works like a charm.
Carl Nobile about Logrotate Error on Ubuntu
Fri, 27.08.2010 00:16
This issue seems to happen when you move a DB from one machine to another as I did. The procedure you describe above should be put into MySQL documentation. You should put in a bug report to the MySQL people as their documentation needs to updated. And yes the PASSWORD parameter needs to be re [...]
Rudger Gravestein about One-Step Symlink Switch
Mon, 23.08.2010 09:19
i also move the current, so in case of non working result, i can easily move it back. mv -fT current fallback; mv -fT next current;
Anon about One-Step Symlink Switch
Sun, 22.08.2010 19:43
This is a convenient way to upgrade, and is certainly a good thing for development / testing environments. On a busy site there might be a slim risk this technique could be problematic. Although the file system is updated in an atomic transaction, a web browser could still read from both the [...]
Les about Working with Web Services - Froscon 2010
Sun, 22.08.2010 17:35
Once more you shine girl yer its true you’re a PHP babe :D
Edmar about One-Step Symlink Switch
Sat, 21.08.2010 20:17
Nice to see a post about this. :-) 100% of our deploys are done using symlinks. We copy our releases into revision-specific folders (which are rev123, rev124, etc.). Deploy is done using: cd /software-revisions-folder ln -sf rev124 current To revert: ln -sf rev123 current Thi [...]
Deep C about One-Step Symlink Switch
Fri, 20.08.2010 19:09
This is very interesting and helpful tip. I just felt its quite similar to adding a new node to link list in C and moving pointer to next :)