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January's 12412 - responsive design in Drupal 7. Progress report

Brief overview of my 12412. Twelve technology related things I would like to achieve in 2012. The start of a series detailing my experience.

2012 - a time to reflect - but is it time to change? Of course it is - but not necessarily because it's new year... (Another obligatory new year post I am afraid)

Having been seriously ill over the past few weeks, I take a few minutes to reflect and look to add an additional focus to my blog...

iOS vs Android - a potential switchers perspective

A brief blog article on whether or not to update to Drupal 7 (D.O) yet or not. *Disclaimer* The views published in this article are my own, and if you don't like them please don't flame me. Please note I am more than happy to update any factual inaccuracies.

If like me you need to have RPM/.deb based PHP instead of a self compiled option (For example you are using something such as Plesk which wants RPM/.deb based PHP) and you don't want to play the rpm -Uvh --justdb (or dpkg equivalent) game I discovered today that you can compile just various modules of PHP using a combination of the phpize (found in the php-devel or php5-dev rpm/deb)

Quite why this hasn't occured to me before but it hadn't. All you need do is check out the applicable php version source, and then do the following:
(Please note $ = normal user # = root)

Once again I am late to the party here (Well kinda) This is a beta release review and as such everything is subject to change prior to the final release. Please note: screenshots to be added at a later date, due to upload problems on my wireless connection.

Well today I bought a Vodafone Sure Signal, and in trying to set it up I came across a number of problems that were not too easy to find on the Vodafone website. Below is how I managed to set up my Suresignal.