Archive for October, 2011

What has the Internet done for us?

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

Every so often, it can be good to take a step back and look around. One thing …

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How to get rid of cursor stuck as drag n drop icon on VMware Player (document with hand)

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

Drag and drop icon ubuntuI use VMware Player to run Ubuntu …

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Download a web page to a local directory that mirrors its url path - wget file command on Linux

Monday, October 17th, 2011

I was doing some work on my web site and I was about to make some big …

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Posted in Open Source, Linux Commands, practical webmaster tips, ftp, Subversion for webmasters, linux, screen scraping, simpletest, unit testing, how to / guides, URL Normalization, Web Imprint, Ubuntu Desktop, user experience | No Comments »

PHP - ‘allowed memory size’ fatal error whilst using exec() command

Friday, October 7th, 2011

I was using php 5.3’s exec() command within a cli script to load some data …

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Posted in PHP scripts, PHP Syntax, PHP, MySQL, Linux Commands, practical webmaster tips, linux, bug tracking, how to / guides, LAMP, Gotcha | No Comments »

Farewell Steve Jobs

Thursday, October 6th, 2011

How sad.

You will remain an inspiration for us all.

Apple ‘visionary’ Steve Jobs dies

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