Phil Sturgeon

Web developer, kayaker, outdoors madman and part-time alcoholic.


PyroCMS reaches v0.9.5

PyroCMS reaches its nearly final stage. This release took care of many bugs known in v0.9.2 and has while it has not added in many amazing new features, it has improved the existing ones considerably. Read More »

Posted: May 28, 2009  Category: PyroCMS


How to: Develop a new module for PyroCMS

I noticed a few people hitting this site after searching for "add new module to pyrocms". Well, here is how. Read More »

Posted: May 27, 2009  Category: PyroCMS


Build your own VPS in the cloud

After getting fed up with a clunky old VPS running a borked copy of CentOS 5 I decided I wanted more control, a better OS, cheaper running costs and better reliability. Watch my screencast on how to set up an Ubuntu 8.04 cloud web server to serve your content over the web. Read More »

Posted: May 22, 2009  Category: Linux


CodeIgniter & Canonical links

I have recently starting using Google Analytic's to track this web-site and as such I have suddenly started to care about improving its SEO while creating Google Analytic friendly URL's. Read More »

Posted: May 19, 2009  Category: CodeIgniter


Access CodeIgniter helpers from Smarty templates

Smarty by default has lots of useful functions - or modifiers - to help you modify your Smarty variables. Using this modifier, you can access any CodeIgniter helper in your view files. Read More »

Posted: May 17, 2009  Category: CodeIgniter


Tips for a Subversion addict learning Git

I have been using Subversion for years and have come to know it like the back of my hand. Recently I began using Git and it was a much trickier transition than I had expected. Now I have finally found my feet with the basics of Git I thought I should take the time to explain my main points of confusion during the learning stage and give you a few things to look out for. Read More »

Posted: May 11, 2009  Category: Git


PyroCMS - an open source CodeIgniter CMS

Finally my CMS is ready for the world. PyroCMS is a modular content management system built with CodeIgniter with speed and efficiency in mind. Read More »

Posted: May 07, 2009  Category: PyroCMS


Getting on the GitHub bandwaggon

I have finally joined GitHub and I am pretty happy about the decision. It seemed like a bit of a silly fad at the start but it is definitely more than that and for me, solved a few problems in one. Mainly, how to run multiple projects based on one code-base without being stuck in the same repo; I'm looking at you SVN. Read More »

Posted: Mar 31, 2009  Category: Git


My tweets have flown away, but will return soon

I spotted a rather worrying error with the Twitter library I have been using which displayed an Uncaught Exception error. This error was not re-produceable but resulted in showing my Twitter password to anyone looking at the homepage! Read More »

Posted: Mar 26, 2009  Category: PyroCMS


How to: Install Transmission CLI to Ubuntu Server

Learn how to set up the best BitTorrent client for your Ubuntu Server running on the command line. This guide will show you how to get a background daemon running on boot to download all your torrents without hogging your terminal like rTorrent, and enable the beautiful Clutch web interface. Read More »

Posted: Feb 27, 2009  Category: Linux


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