I went along to this big release bash for AppExchange. It’s really pretty good, looks like SalesForce should have some great success. It also made it very clear that we should really be getting some apps on it (building on Smartmessages experience) sooner rather than later, especially if you’re entertained by the the prospect of “sticking it to the man” that is Microsoft!
They put on a very good show. All the top management were approachable and helpful, as were many of the partners exhibiting there.
Skiing
Just back from an excellent week in Avoriaz. Decent snow for the first time in years – powder, sunshine and great company.
I tried some Rossignol Zenith Z9s and at last carving skis seem to be getting it right after the years of junk foisted upon us by the likes of Salomon. The Z9s are just great in everything.
Does no-one use mod_rewrite?
I can’t quite believe this bug really exists. It’s so fundamental to so many applications, principally redirects which are just used everywhere.
Error-free PHP
Not nearly as good as it sounds. I’ve become plagued by a very irritating problem over the last couple of weeks – I’m getting no error output from PHP whatsoever, neither to the browser nor to logs, even though all such options are enabled. My config files are as stock as they can be and still work. It’s just making debugging nearly impossible. I’m getting the same symptoms on OS X and RedHat EL4, so it’s not a platform-dependent thing. They are also on different versions of Apache (2.0.54-12 from Fink and 2.0.52 from RHN). Grrr.
Update
I found it!! Really silly issue and it explains everything. There was a .htaccess file containing an old line:
php_value display_errors true
It appears that (unlike in the rest of PHP) ‘true’ is interpreted as boolean false in this context. Commenting it out or setting it to 1 makes it work.