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.
Latest
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 and trying to figure out why
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 “.com”: www.local.bnt – which is
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 that maybe it’s not having
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 is your own Db adapter and
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_EntityManager instead of the ugly looking
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 x64 tablet pc is not your
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 expected it will usually be for
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 back to version 5.5. The
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 little bit. A teaser of the
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 – shortened to pet names Jack &