Joanna Walker

Enable delayed messages in Zend_Queue

The default Zend_Queue DB implementation unfortunately does not allow you to pass a timeout value when saving a message on the queue. However not all is lost and you can easily extend the standard Zend classes to add that functionality. All you need is your own Db adapter and

Zend Application Resource Plugin Loading Issues

Admittedly thinking while feeling feverish is slightly impaired, but it took me a little while to figure this one out… Trying to integrate ZF 1.11 with Doctrine2 to as per this article, I was trying to be a smart-ass and use TS_Resource_EntityManager instead of the ugly looking

Installing Windows 7 Guest on VMWare 7 on OpenSuse 11.3 Host

Maybe this will help anyone else stuck on the installation. For a long while my Windows 7 install inside VMWare 7 would get stuck at “expanding files 0%”. I kept thinking it was my machine and setup that was causing issue, after all a x64 tablet pc is not your

PHP_AUTH_USER and PHP_AUTH_PW is null

Ok, so you’re trying to setup password protection on your website using HTTP authentication. Unfortunately despite the request for password working your authentication keeps failing. If you check the output of your script and the password and username variables are not populated as expected it will usually be for

Using TextMate for easier CSS3

Over the past couple of years Webkit has popularised many fancy new CSS tricks. Amongst these the ability to rotate an element is certainly one of the most useful. Fortunately it’s also widely supported in other browsers, even in lowly old IE right back to version 5.5. The

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