Archive for the ‘how to / guides’ Category

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 …

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 …

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 …

How to Learn Agile and Rally Quickly - New Team Member Survival Guide

Saturday, May 7th, 2011

Some pointers for how to get up to speed on a project that uses Agile

The equivalent of Windows Explorer on Ubuntu and how to launch it from the desktop

Sunday, January 9th, 2011

I have just installed the desktop version of Linux Ubuntu (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - the …

How to remove source path/web address from top of document - PDFcreator (HTML to PDF converter)

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

I have just visited download.com to grab a copy of PDFcreator which I installed …

Zend Config XML and INI files - How to Specify False and Other Non-String PHP Data Types

Friday, August 27th, 2010

Zend Config INI and Zend Config XML are handy adaptors that allow you …

Setting the referrer in SimpleTest web tests - faking the HTTP_REFERER

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

Sometimes you might want to make a PHP web page do different things depending on the value …

Checking if an object has been serialized in PHP

Monday, January 11th, 2010

I had a class that relied upon an object’s spl_object_hash() which the PHP documentation states …

How To View Page Source without Reposting in Firefox

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

So,