Plus, having looked at the paper work after the fact, I would have been no better off, as they require that you call Evans Halshaw in advance to arrange a suitable garage. The RAC took me to the *only* garage within a suitable distance, and Evans Halshaw don’t even open until two hours after I got to the garage.

Additionally, I asked specifically when I bought the car, can I claim on warranty *after* work has been done by a third party. I was told yes. That’s the crux of the issue for me.

There’s two sides to everything, and sure I could have just taken this on the chin, but in my opinion, the warranty policies are not fit for purpose. People don’t drive their cars within a ten mile radius of Evans Halshaw garages, between the hours of 9am and 5pm, Monday through Friday.

I don’t think you’re as unusual as you think, when it comes to having to find a discussion first. I’ve noticed in the past that blog entries that already have comments tend to attract more than those without, even if the latter is more discussion worthy, which does imply that people are more willing to join in than to create a discussion. That also fits with what I’ve seen with forums, thinking about it.

Like you, I’m not writing for the sake of getting comments, I don’t want to end up writing things just to attract more comments than previous posts. What I would like, though, is as I suggested in my post – when people are doing similar things, I’d love to know about it, or if they’re stuck with anything related to what I’ve done before, I’d like to try and help. That kind of thing.

Also speaking of your blog, I didn’t know you had one… I shall have to start following it!

You mentioned Buzz, which is funny because that’s how I noticed your blog entry here. I’ve no problem joining into a discussion, but you have to find said discussion first. Of course, I’m also not a model netizen because I generally don’t follow much of what anyone has to say. I stay within my “comfort zone” and do what I do, without experimenting much.

On my blog, which has 0 comments, I don’t really care so much what others have to say about what I write, but do want to share what I’m saying with the world. Basically, the comments don’t matter to me, though I’d like to increase my audience. I suppose that’s generally the end goal for most bloggers, though.

On the basis of this, I think there will be exactly zero hosting companies providing hiphop support or compilation. Try getting a hosting company to run your own compiled cgi or apache module. They (sensibly) wont.

I think hiphop is interesting, but has very specific, niche case uses. like, cpu-bound scaling issues specific.

Cool tech though

I didn’t thank you publicly for this… So here it is! Thank you very much for the comment, and letting me know about the potential issues.

I’m going to make sure we compile from source in production environments, it’s such a shame that the Debian/Ubuntu package maintainers will not keep the package up to date.

- Dan

That said, let me say wholeheartedly that I completely agree with your review of the book. I found it wholly confusing even for a complete beginner.

thanks for an honest review, finally!!

a MODx fan

be careful, you appear to be running version 1.3.15.2 which is completely outdated and has numerous bugs. If you want to stay on 1.3.15.X, you should update to at least 1.3.15.10. Otherwise, update to 1.3.22 or 1.3.23.

You can check the known bugs per version here :

http://haproxy.1wt.eu/knownbugs-1.3.html

Also, that may be of interest to you and/or your readers, version 1.4 brings MySQL health checks.

Hoping this helps,
Willy