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Alex Bilbie commented on the post, CWD v3.1 “Fettercairn” Preview, on the site Alex Bilbie 2 months ago

Hi Phil,

The latest version (v3.1 – http://cwd.online.lincoln.ac.uk/3.1) uses a few styles from Twitter Bootstrap, as well as normalize.css (instead of a CSS reset), my own custom grid, and lots of helper classes […]

Alex Bilbie commented on the post, CodeIgniter MongoDB library, on the site Alex Bilbie 2 months, 1 week ago

Thanks, I’ll make sure it’s fixed in the next version

Alex Bilbie commented on the post, CodeIgniter MongoDB library, on the site Alex Bilbie 2 months, 1 week ago

It does support upsert – just pass an array as a second parameter in an update query with upset => true

Alex Bilbie wrote a new post, CWD v3.1 “Fettercairn” Preview, on the site Alex Bilbie 3 months, 1 week ago

As ever I’ve been playing with a new version of the CWD and at some point soon I’ll be rolling out version 3.1 “Fettercairn”.

This version will feature a massive code rewrite resulting of over 50 lines of […]

Alex Bilbie created the site Alex testing 3 months, 1 week ago

Alex Bilbie commented on the blog post Technology in the Library’s annual review 2011 5 months, 3 weeks ago

The report looks great!

Alex Bilbie commented on the blog post Where have you been all my life? 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Could you not use Yahoo Pipes to merge the various KML feeds so you can then use it in Google Maps?

Paul Stainthorp replied 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Yes, a couple of people have suggested that. Didn’t think – Pipes takes KML as easily as it serves it up. Mash on.

Alex Bilbie commented on the blog post I’ve got to get to a library… fast! 7 months, 1 week ago

Hi Julian,

The off campus location lookups are very approximate because of how they are calculated.
On campus location lookups will be much more accurate from tomorrow because we’ve now got better IP ranges for every building and campus.

Alex

Alex Bilbie wrote a new blog post: “Everything else is secondary” 7 months, 1 week ago

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already [...]

Alex Bilbie wrote a new blog post: MongoUK Conference, what I learnt 7 months, 3 weeks ago

A few of us attended the MongoUK Conference on Monday in London. It was a very useful day and I’d like to summarise a few things I learnt. You can create your own _id We’ve always allowed Mongo to create it’s own _ids alongside the unique ID we were creating in each document, so for example in [...]

Alex Bilbie wrote a new blog post: Student developers unite! Introducing DevXS! 8 months ago

This summer in cooperation with DevCSI, LNCD have been cooking up something really awesome and I can now finally write about it. On the 11th, 12th and 13th of November, the University of Lincoln are hosting DevXS, a free* developer Dev8D/BarCamp/hackathon style conference for undergraduate and postgraduates students in the UK. I’ve wanted to do…[Read more]

Alex Bilbie wrote a new blog post: The ‘Common Web Design’ Case Study: An introduction and brief plan 8 months, 1 week ago

Background In January 2010, I joined the University of Lincoln’s Online Services Team (OST) in the IT Services department (IT). One of the first projects I worked on alongside Nick Jackson was Posters at Lincoln , a repository and showcase for posters displayed around the university. This project, along with others, came out of a student focus gr…[Read more]

Alex Bilbie commented on the blog post Updates to CodeIgniter MongoDB library 8 months, 3 weeks ago

I’ve fixed the or_where() comment.

Could you please report other issues here https://github.com/alexbilbie/codeigniter-mongodb-library/issues

Thanks

Alex Bilbie wrote a new blog post: CodeIgniter MongoDB library 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Just an FYI, my CodeIgniter MongoDB library has moved from Bitbucket to Github. It can now be found at:

https://github.com/alexbilbie/codeigniter-mongodb-library

I’ve also set up a CodeIgniter spark which makes it dead easy to install:

php tools/spark install -v0.4.7 mongodb

Alex Bilbie commented on the blog post Updates to CodeIgniter MongoDB library 8 months, 3 weeks ago

To do an use where() for AND and or_where() for OR:

e.g. Select where age is 18 AND sex is male OR female

$this->mongo_db->where(array(‘age’=>18))->or_where(array(‘sex’=>’male’)->or_where(array(‘sex’=>’female’))->get(‘gamers’)

Alex Bilbie commented on the blog post Updates to CodeIgniter MongoDB library 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Thanks, I’ve fixed this in the latest commit https://github.com/alexbilbie/codeigniter-mongodb-library

Alex Bilbie commented on the blog post Installing PHP 5.3.7 on RHEL5 8 months, 4 weeks ago

I can’t get it to work properly. Hopefully servers are being rebuilt in the next few weeks anyway!

Alex Bilbie wrote a new blog post: Installing PHP 5.3.7 on RHEL5 8 months, 4 weeks ago

Our PHP installations are getting slightly out of date and thanks to the complete lack of anything useful in the default RHEL repos I needed to upgrade via source installation. These are the commands I used: $ cd ~/ $ wget http://uk2.php.net/get/php-5.3.7.tar.gz/from/this/mirror $ tar -xvzf php-5.3.7 $ cd php-5.3.7/ $ sudo ./configure --with-curl…[Read more]