Coffeerings Home Page

Coffeerings is the home of my (John Walker) personal rambings and thoughts on the Internet and related subjects. I have been commercially involved with the web for over 5 years having studied Multi-Media at university prior to that.  I currently work at a Birmingham/London based agency named WAA.

Outside of WAA I am an active member of the Open Source projects PHP-WAX, a lightweight php framework for PHP5 web applications and Wildfire CMS, a CMS plugin built for the PHP-WAX php framework. I also run a portfolio site for artists http://www.alltradeart.co.uk, a completely free service allowing artists to display their work on the internet.

Recent Articles

Import Error: No module named django.core.management

Installing and testing the Django Framework on my new mac I came across the error "Import Error: No module named django.core.management" when attempting to run the sever.  I installed the framework using macports and there w... read more

Quick Note on Setting Up a Mail Server

Part of the basics when setting up a mail server but I needed to put this command somewhere as a reminder:/etc/init.d/saslauthd startIt starts the sasl authentication server which is used to authenticate SMTP co... read more

Microformats Creator Tool

"Microformats are a way of adding simple markup to human-readable data items such as events, contact details or locations, on web pages, so that the information in them can be extracted by software and indexed, searched fo... read more

Recursive Directory Listing

Nothing too fancy but a nice way of viewing a directory tree on your *nix box.ls -R | grep ":$" | sed -e 's/:$//' -e 's/[^-][^\/]*\//--/g' -e 's/^/ /' -e 's/-/|/' This was originally posted on read more