Archive for March, 2008

A well recommended agency for Medical workers in New Zealand and Australia

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Extremely off topic here but I’ve been asked to point out to UK readers (that are medically trained) that one of our old colleagues has run off to New Zealand (NZ) using an agency over in NZ that specialises in placing foreign nationals.

So, if you’re interested take a look, it may be a good way to go to the southern hemisphere and enjoy a year or two.

http://antipodeanmedical.com/

Upgrading PEAR - A moan and groan

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Well, let’s say i want to do something stupid and upgrade my PEAR packages. I go to the command line and run..

pear upgrade-all

and it … well fails for some packages because they’re alpha or beta.

Now far be it from me to moan but surely it’s more important to upgrade alpha and beta packages than the other packages?

Anyway fix it by upgrading each independently. For example;

pear upgrade Validate

fails as it’s beta - so append “-beta” on the end and hey presto it works.

pear upgrade Validate-beta

Genius! I just hope that maybe one day logic will win out and upgrade-all will mean upgrade-all?