Joanna Walker

Mantis theme mock-up

At my new job we use MantisBT for our bug tracking and project management. Unfortunately despite good functionality the visual side is desperately lacking some love and attention. Tired of looking at the barely styled web app I decided to spruce it up a little bit. A teaser of the

Jack & Sunny from Coonaria

Our home will soon be full of cat fluff again. We were missing Barney and kitty company, and we didn’t want to make our next cat lonely, thus we are getting two Maine Coon brothers – Coonaria Jack the Lad and Coonaria Rising Sun – shortened to pet names Jack &

Multiple changes and a delete on same object in doctrine

If you want to make several different changes to a doctrine record object you might find yourself slightly puzzled when it comes to deleting related objects. $user['Address']->delete(); $user['Address']->state(Doctrine_Record::STATE_LOCKED); (...) $user->save();``` It seems that

Zend_Date time part and GMT

If you live in the UK you might have a surprise waiting in store for you if you use Zend_Date for the time part only. For a while I even thought this was a bug, however digging deeper has shown that actually it’s Zend_Date that is right,

PHPUnit & Selenium - screenshot path problem

PHPUnit_Framework_Exception: Response from Selenium RC server for testComplete(). ERROR: Command execution failure. Please search the forum at http://clearspace.openqa.org for error details from the log window. The error message is: Component returned failure code: 0x80520001 (NS_ERROR_FILE_UNRECOGNIZED_PATH) [nsILocalFile.initWithPath] Setting up Selenium RC

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