Archive for the ‘practical webmaster tips’ 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 …

Online Tools to Convert those Long Google Search Engine Results Links Back to Normal Links

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

Sometimes Google uses re-direct links within the search engine result pages (SERPs) which, as far as I …

Gotcha - Php require_once includes files twice if path’s case is wrong causing ‘Fatal error: Cannot redeclare’ errors

Monday, September 12th, 2011

Here’s another gotcha story. Its a little storm in a teacup that occurred while I was writing …

Gotcha - Fatal error: Call to undefined method stdClass::myMethod() in /myscript.php on line

Monday, August 8th, 2011

I had a bit of confusion trying to debug a relatively complex set of classes that …

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

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 …

PHP Static Methods Can Be Declared Without Static Keyword But Called Statically

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Whenever I create a PHP class method that I intend to use statically, I declare it as …

Html Tidy fix for anchor tag - already defined in entity, line…

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

I was having some problems with an XHTML document (that contained a named anchor tag). It was …