Bondi Madness

Ok officially caught the Bondi Madness

I have worked there this past week and I loved every moment of it .. so much more relaxing, so much more fun and if things got hectic, you could always go for a walk on the streets of Bondi.

I didnt take as many photos as I had hoped I would, but here are a few I shot over the week. All I can say is, I really cant wait till I get to work there again.. Just loved it way too much ..

Bondi Restuarant Sign

Streets of Bondi

I never got to take photos of the beach but the streets are just as nice.

First time I have been able to eat something Healthy for lunch at work..
Where I normally work your only options are Red Rooster, Macdonalds, KFC or if you have someone that is willing drive for lunch you can get Oportos or subway.
I am extremely over Large Food Chains.

Adam (In pic - Co worker) & I going to the best Cafe in sydney ( Max Cafe)
Honestly if you ever go to Bondi, YOU MUST GO THERE!! They shred actual chocolate and put that on top of your Cappuccinos..
So I have now gone to the store, bought myself a large grater and block of chocolate and have grated chocolate onto everything.. I am hooked.. Really trully a beautiful cafe. Their tuna rolls are to die for and their Salmon Bagels are just as amazing...

When we get something right, we get to play SKIRMISH
Adam has this toy shot gun, So we thought it would be fun to see if we could shoot each other then that got boring so we decided to show empty hand paper rolls... Then Michael came in and lost the bullets.. bum!!

Coding Madness.. testing my code on a linux server using virtual box, then copying it to Dreamweaver to double check code then back to linux.. arghh gets complicated but loved it.

Moi Working at Bondi.. I was never really a big believer in the environment theory .. I knew your environment affects you, but I honestly had no idea, how much ..

Testing Testing 123.. creations first words ..

Creating an online application Drama Part 1
Not sure when part two will come out, but i'm sure it wont be long.

I have spent a large chunk of my day, testing a wonderful product called ImageMagick. Most developers have heard of this and more than likely know the pain of it all.

ImageMagick is awesome at what it does, but its installation method is like kissing a donkeys rear and enjoying it.

Warning to you all, you will have a hundred and one web hosts telling you that they have ImageMagick installed on their servers, what they dont tell you is 90% dont have the libraries installed which makes ImageMagick useless in many ways. The reason we want imagemagick is because of all the fancy classes it comes with, if it weren't for that we would just use Gd.

So after finding out that the server my client has, does have ImageMagick I got excited and went ahead, put my files on the server and set up a test image.. B'bum b'bum.. what was the error you ask.. (well all the tech heads did) Imagick class not found.

So here I am, listening to Adam on the phone to godaddy support.. who had no idea about what we were asking them..

" ohh you want the absolute path? "

"Noooooo, I want to know the path you have the Imagick class stored under"

"Well, to get the absolute path, you should blaa blaa blaa"

So we did more research and end up finding out that the only method of having ImageMagick and its classes (which as i mentioned are necessary to use the damn thing) is by having a virtual dedicated server. Not on shared server. Shared server have the program installed but not the class.. WHAT??

Now let me stop there for a sec.. "Why on this morbid planet, would you Install ImageMagic without the classes then go advertise left right and center that you have ImageMagick.." answer me this.. What is the point? Was it just to drive me crazy? Did you all think it would be fun to not have the class there and sit back and wait till i called support??? To watch little miss Me go crazy while attepting to explain what ImageMagic was to to you people?? Oh ye, Great support library you guys have btw. One Paragraph on ImageMagick. pfft..

Anyway, we ring up support again and say we want to upgrade the account to a virtual, which normally costs about 450 a year. So we do so, on a guarantee that on a virtual we can install imageMagick and all its classes..

So we all get excited we can see the finish line..
only 10 steps to go, step 1, great, step 2: fantastic, step 3: brilliant, step 4: ecstatic, step 5: amazed, step 6: soo excited nearly there, step 7: woot, step 8: Soo close now, step 9 : Server pooped itself.

ARE YOU SERIOUS????? no wonder half these hosts gave up and only installed half of it.
Anyway, due to the brilliance of my partner in crime the co developer, we got it working..
thank god..

Just another exciting day in the office.. I'm sure tomorrow will be just as good.

current story part one - untitled

A young woman, walks up the cold hard stone stairs that lead to a heavy bolted wooden door. She knocks on the door but no answer.
The door slowly creeps open. The young woman peeks in slightly pushing the door back a little. "hello??" she looks around curiously. "It's Elizabeth, I was sent here from the agency, I'm the new sitter you sent for. "

Elizabeth slowly takes a step inside, Out off no where a dusty old man appears.. "your bags madam".

"Oh, so sorry to let myself in like that, But i wasn't sure if you could hear me from outside. There was no door bell i could see". She felt as if she was a child in the head masters office again. She looked down at her feet and followed the man.
"Believe me Madam, I heard you ... well enough".. he noticed that Elizabeth was embarrassed with this statement and cleared his throat. "My apologies, I was in the cellar fetching the masters favorite wine to accompany dinner this evening. Now if you would follow me please."

He took Elizabeth up stairs that circled around the large entrance room, that walked across several corridors. Elizabeth had never seen a manor so antique, with such amazing and beautiful items adorning it. She felt as if every step she took was disturbing the house and at the same time, as if someone was watching her. She looked nervously over her shoulder and saw nothing that was not previously there. The butler, opened a door to her left, it had the most marvelous crystal door handle.

"Your room madam. ". He lead her in the room, placed her bags on a nearby chair. Elizabeth was breath taken by the grandest room she had ever laid eyes on. As a child every girl dreams of a room such as this, it was almost a fairy tale room, you read about, but to be actually standing there, amongst all this grace and beauty. She could not help but smile, but she could see the butler disapproved and quickly hid her pleasure with the room by clearing her throat.

"um When will I meet the master and the children?" She asked sweetly to the butler.. The butler simply replied "you may meet them tonight at dinner, otherwise arrangements will be made in the morning. Now if there is nothing else I will take my leave. If at any point you should require something, please ring this bell and the Maid will accommodate you" he pointed to a velvet rope hanging from the ceiling and with that he turned around and left the room.

Once the door was fully closed, Elizabeth couldn't help but spin around once or twice to take in the beauty of the room. She then began to unpack her things and write her first letter to her family in Wales.

Welcome to my humble blog

Thank you all for visiting me here. I am yet to populate this blog, but I thought it was about time I put some of my work and thoughts on a blog somewhere. So here I am.

I do hope you enjoy your stay and learn a little, share a little and laugh a little along the way.