Welcome

Coffeerings is the personal home page of John Walker, a UK based web developer. I have been commercially involved with the web for over 6 years having studied Multi-Media at university prior to that.  I'm currently the Senior Developer at Birmingham based agency 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

Rails and Apache

In what appears to be a very useful find 'Phusion Passenger' offers powerful (open source) deployment option for your ROR sites.  It's an out-the-box Apache module with a 2 line install.&nb... read more

Useful bit of Javascript

Never thought about using javascript for this before but I had a requirement to force the window to the top of the page whilst executing a javascript onClick event.  Very simple but thought I'd note it down for future refere... read more

Quick jquery Gallery

I had a look at some of the gallery plugins available for jquery and although impressed with some of the cool stuff available decided after trying a few I needed something else.I di... read more

Massive CPU usage when updating Fedora using YUM/RPMQ

We noticed that YUM and RPMQ processes were using a massive amount CPU between them, the most likely the reason is that the rpm somehow hanged or was killed while it was running updating the system and left the repo info in an ... read more