It’s that time again a new version of wordpress is out as an official stable release which means time to upgrade.  Of course as of recent versions you can upgrade with just a simple click within the wordpress admin making it a quick and easy upgrade.  With that being said never risk having the upgrade [...]

It’s that time again for another wordpress release which in this case is just a maintenance release.  By the looks of things 2.7.1 does not include any major security fixes and primarly just for various bugs discovered in 2.7.  The upgrade process is pretty easy it’ll say at the top of your blog there is [...]

For the past few days I’ve been playing around with eAccelerator on one of our hosting machines.  Sounds pretty bad, but it’s completely controlled and I was quite confident it would run just fine.  It is running just fine and has been for a few days and overall it’s made a tiny difference in overall [...]

Just a quick note on the blog I’ve went ahead and updated all our servers to have Zend Framework 1.7.  It was released on the 17th but we let these things sit for at least a week in case of any unexpected bugs.  I haven’t had a chance to play around with it myself but [...]

Zend Framework 1.6 was just released and we already have it on all our servers.  I can honestly say I did not have time to play around with the release candidate versions so my knowledge of it is not great.  I am however as I write this working on porting our website to use Zend [...]

Yesterday there was a report of a strange bug by a user on a system I’m currently working with.  I was told a specific row was not showing up in the data set.  The system was using PostgreSQL for the database and used ExtJS grid component to render the data set so my first instinct [...]

Tomorrow some time during the afternoon all our servers will have PHP 4 removed from them due to the end of life being today (August 8th 2008).  Although there was new release on Thursday the 7th to address some security holes it’s quite clear it’s time to stop using considering in the PHP news post [...]

I check the PHP site once in a while to see if there are any new updates and to my surprise the other day they announced that PHP 5.3 alpha has been released.  We’d love to put it on Hawk Host to play around, but at this time it’s not meant for a production environment.  [...]

Here at Hawk Host we support (and use in-house) Zend Framework on all of our servers and the response has been amazing. I was a bit curious what other PHP Frameworks were available so I went searching and made a little list. The point of this post is to give people some frameworks they can [...]

Hawk Host although primarily web hosting we do handle various software development efforts as paying developers to do something is expensive and there is no guarantee of it being to your specification.  So we take advantage of the fact I am an aspiring Software Engineer and someday hope to actually get a degree (right now [...]