James Titcumb

• James is somewhere in France… Not sure where. (24/08/2008 11:43:54)
• James is sitting in the sun next to the pool. Lovely jubbly. (26/08/2008 10:23:17)
• James just had lots of cheese! (26/08/2008 16:12:58)
• James is all in like France and stuff, for the last day tho, argh. (28/08/2008 09:49:39)
• James is leaving France… Home soon! Nice warm bed awaits… See you on the other side…mwahahahaha (29/08/2008 16:12:00)
• James is in the water! And has signal! (29/08/2008 18:10:36)

• James has that Monday Morning feeling - the I want to go home feeling. (18/08/2008 09:10:13)
• James is lolling at Jon sucking Chris. (18/08/2008 16:12:01)
• James counting down days til holiday… 4 to go! (19/08/2008 09:11:35)
• James is cooking dinner and coding… at the same time! (19/08/2008 19:56:48)
• James was greeted at work by the nightmare of Oasis. Gah! (20/08/2008 09:06:10)
• James is trundling away. (20/08/2008 10:44:26)
• James says 3 days ’til holiday! (20/08/2008 12:31:10)
• James has the confuzzles… (20/08/2008 15:26:02)
• James is lol at E4 fail! (20/08/2008 19:28:55)
• James is argh tired. (21/08/2008 09:07:35)
• James is on the M&Ms again. (21/08/2008 14:16:19)
• James misses his juice bottle :(… (21/08/2008 16:41:00)
• James is sitting in the India Arms asking AQA questions. (21/08/2008 21:09:04)
• James found a question that AQA can’t answer! (21/08/2008 21:36:02)
• James is incredibly sexy in a long-haired metal way, and my beard features in many a fantasy. (22/08/2008 09:09:45)
• James will be on holiday in 3 hours! (22/08/2008 14:36:46)
• James will be on holiday in 1.5 hours! (22/08/2008 15:56:55)
• James is on holiday in 20 minutes! (22/08/2008 17:09:47)
• James is on holiday, wooooooooo! (22/08/2008 17:30:40)
• James is on the ferry to holiday, woo! (23/08/2008 20:00:30)

I posted the other day that I couldn’t get Bugzilla working due to missing Perl modules*. Well last night I badgered 1and1.co.uk to install the modules, but I got a vauge no. I carefully read various pages, and got it installed… here’s how:

Read these instructions** first. If the CPAN shell complains about not having permissions to modify /root/.cpan, read this. Instead of putting the whole Apache httpd.conf <Directory> section (you probably dont have access to an httpd.conf…), you can put the AddHandler/Options/DirectoryIndex lines in a .htaccess file in the Bugzilla directory. Just to note that I couldn’t add the AllowOverride option in for some reason - it threw a 500 error…

Another thing that confused me was this:

perl -pi -e 's@use strict\;@use strict\; use lib \"/home/foo/perl/lib\"\;@' *cgi *pl Bug.pm processmail syncshadowdb

Perhaps the document is out of date, but none of those files existed. I changed Bugzilla.pm (note: you must use the FULL path to your local Perl installation, not just ~/myperl/lib!!!), and hey presto, it works! I now have a nice neat and tidy Bugzilla installation.

* It turns out that Bugzilla 3.2 (in release candidate stage) has a script to do all this for you - doh!

** Updated documentation link to the correct version - doh!

I signed up to Fire Eagle a couple of weeks ago, but have not used it since. I’m really not sure wether I should or not. It’s a cool idea being able to put on my blog where I am in the world, but on the other hand, it’s a bit of a risk… I might wait out the weaning period for it and see what the general public reaction is.

Bit of a funny name as well…

I was planning to write a WP plugin as the ones I’ve found so far have been rubbish, but I might wait it out until I actually start using it (if at all…)

I was searching today for a suitable Forge today for the projects I work on. Ideally I was looking for something like Sourceforge, but something that didn’t run in a VM, and didn’t require any back-end stuff. Source control isn’t required, just something I can put releases on. This ruled out a lot of typical forges I could’ve used (SFEE, gForge etc.). I asked Kelvin and he suggested a few, including Eventum and Flyspray. I have settled on Flyspray for now, we will see how it fares…

Edit: Well, I tried Flyspray and Eventum this evening, and didn’t really like either. I resolved myself to just using a bug tracking system, so I downloaded Bugzilla. That didn’t work due to some missing Perl bits, so I settled on phpBugTracker, the PHP alternative to that. So far, liking it!