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…
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 .
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,…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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