Author Archives: Matt

Can’t Install Drupal? Correct DB info yet no error?

The solution is to make sure that:

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Who the hell’s matt?

If you actually know me on the interwebs, you may be wondering why the hell the name on this site has changed from alex to matt all of a sudden. Alex was an alias I used when I first started … Continue reading

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Host personal SVN projects for free using DropBox

If you’ve ever tried to find an svn host that’s willing to host personal, private projects for free, you’re probably well aware that are practically none. One of the best ones used to be Assembla, until they changed their business … Continue reading

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Kohana – the php framework

I know I haven’t written anything here for quite a while, but I just wanted to make a quick post about this totally amazing awesome MVC php framework called kohana. It was originally a fork of codeigniter (Another good php … Continue reading

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Textarea maxlength with Jquery

The other day I was trying to find a way to limit the amount of characters that a user could enter into a textbox. For some reason you can’t set the maxlength attribute on textareas, so I decided to make … Continue reading

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Safely destroy your computer

Now I’m no computer wizz, but I don’t think this should be happening…

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The first step…

This is my first attempt at the ‘blogging’ thing. I’ve wanted to get my own website for a while, and I think this is a good a time as any to have a stab at it! Sees you around Alex

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