30DB Crowdfunded 2D Adventure Game - 30DB #8 When it comes to games I tend to be bit sentimental. I have plenty of fond memories of games like Monkeys Island, even though I usually struggled to figure out all the puzzles on my own. These days it seems that the point and
30DB Getting Things Done - 30DB #7 It’s quite a while since I read the “Getting Things Done” book by David Allen. I liked a lot of the ideas, but wasn’t convinced by the physical
fix Wordpress Admin - Insufficient Permissions Run into a strange issue today. Was setting up a new blog using the cpanel worpress add-on and everything was fine until I tried to login as admin into the backed. Sure enough the details were accepted, but instead of the dashboard I was
30DB Weekends Are for the Family - 30DB #6 This weekend has been pretty slow in terms of work. Unfortunately one of the downsides of working from home on an online business, is that very often the distinction between weekdays and weekends becomes a distant memory from the office days. So do work
30DB Are you part of the 8%? - 30DB #5 As the theme of this blogging challenge focuses around things related to New Year’s resolutions I though it might be nice to share some facts and trivia about the phenomenon. To start of with the amount of people sticking to their resolutions is
30DB It's Not Tomorrow until I Go to Bed - 30DB #4 I have to admit to a small cheat on the previous post – I did need to adjust the posting time, because otherwise it would have to say something like Friday 7am. And no, I did not get up early to catch up on the
30DB Developing Writing Habits - 30DB #3 My writing speed sucks. As a writer I would like to be able to produce thousands of words per day. Ideally of perfect quality too… OK one can dream, I’d settle for 3-4k per day, and it wouldn’t even have to be
30DB You Will Never Get There - 30DB #2 The title of this post is a bit pessimistic, but the topic I wanted to talk about today is actually about positive attitude and dealing with perfectionism. I was going
30DB Hello 2013 - 30DB #1 It’s that time of the year again, when everyone sets goals and makes New Year’s resolutions. Well, this year I’ve decided to revive my old blogging habits.
30DB 30 Days of Blogging Everyone likes a challenge, right? The 30 day challenges (or longer…) seem to be all the rage now. They are a great way to give some focus to your writing and if followed properly encourage a more or less regular posting schedule. Exactly what
code Text file busy - db/test.sqlite3 Sometimes things are just too obvious… When trying to setup the test database for my new rails app I kept getting stuck with this error message: <b>$ rake db:test:prepare</b> rake aborted! Text file busy - db/test.
fix Quick fix for the Social Counter Widget plugin I’ve been doing some charity work recently and as they will have a social presence the blog was in need of some social media buttons. I thought the Social Counter Widget plugin looked quite nice (after the slightly prettier Social Impact Widget decided
bios Edit BIOS in Lenovo ThinkPad x220t As it’s changed from the previous model it had me scratching my head for a few minutes. To enter the BIOS setup just use F1 during laptop startup.
fix Wordpress update permission issues WordPress can often be such a pain to deal with… Recently I was trying to get an installation updated as well as some of the plugins. What should have been a straightforward task, turned out to be several hours of messing around with permissions
Kitty Update! As I have no time for anything else at least I can update my blog with some kitten photos. Should be enough of a distraction to any reader to not notice the apparent lack of new posts ;)
code Top Level Cookies in Opera for Custom Domain Names For our local development at work we all use the same fake domain – helps with setting API keys and other things across the board and isn’t hard to setup whatever system any new developer might have. It also happens to be not a
code jQuery Multiple Events Without Default Behaviour Sometimes you trip over the little things. With several people working on the same page while we were recreating some JS functionality from scratch I’ve noticed one of my buttons suddenly stopped working. Scratched my head a bit, and for a minute thought
classes 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
php 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_
fix 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
authentication 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
css 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
Designer 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
cat 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
code 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
