At the office we use VMWare Server on a couple of different systems to run “appliance” based applications, the problem is every few months the Web interface suddenly screws up and all we get is 503 errors when attempting to login. I’ve searched high and low for the cause and solution to fix it, as far I can tell its occurs because the server randomly deletes or corrupts some important Tomcat related content. Then the only solution I’ve found to fixing this is  completely uninstall VMWare Server, remove all the licenses, reboot the system and then re-install VMWare server.

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VMWare Server sucks!

On every other version of windows I've used over the last 12 years or so, you've always been able to double click a .zip archive, open it up like a folder and drag and drop any files you like out of it to anywhere else on your hard drive.

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Windows 7 doesn’t seem to like zip files

I’ve been trying to update my wordpress blogs from various versions like 2.5 and 2.7 to the newest 2.8 for a while now, but was never able to do it automatically. Every time I pressed the “upgrade automatically” button, it told me it was downloading the latest file from Wordpress, but it never got any further than that. I logged in to my site using my FTP client and found a 0KB sized file called wordpress2.8.zip in the wp_content folder, so I thought I’d found the issue – maybe the script can’t actually download the file and save it to disk because of permissions

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Wordpress 2.8 automatic upgrade fails

With the release of the 1.8 series of Zend Framework, I felt the need to update this article , especially due to the entirely new project setup process provided by Zend_Tool. Again, we start with installing the LAMP stack if you haven’t done so already: sudo tasksel install lamp-server So now you’ve got your LAMP stack up and running, lets download the latest SVN tag of Zend Framework. At the time of writing, the latest stable is 1.8.1, which I’ll use here

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Installing Zend Framework 1.8.x on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) using SVN

As with everything I do, I hack together solutions when there’s probably a much better and easier way of doing things. But anyway - if there’s not an easier way, then here’s a solution to my problem, and if there is, well… I’ll just use that in future… My problem is that I want pretty URLs for my app, such as http://blah.com/home/folder/5/item/27.

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Zend Framework: Default Action in a Controller

This is a pretty simple howto, but here it is anyway! I assume already that you’ve got a LAMP stack working, and if you don’t, it’s easy as pie to install one in Ubuntu: sudo tasksel install lamp-server So now you’ve got your LAMP stack up and running, lets download the latest SVN tag of Zend Framework. At the time of writing, the latest stable is 1.7.8, which I’ll use here

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Installing Zend Framework on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) using SVN

At work we've recently migrated from using the Nusphere PhpED IDE to Eclipse and PDT, the benefits offered by Eclipse are massive, not least its huge archive of available plug-ins.

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My Eclipse Plugin.. Projx Transfer

Since we started using Eclipse PDT as our primary IDE at Netbasic , there is nothing stopping us from moving to use Linux (for me, specifically Ubuntu ) as our operating systems.

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Migrating to Linux at Work

I’ve managed to set up a Subversion repository on my 1and1.co.uk hosting now, and even got it working directly from eclipse. This may or may not work on other shared hosts

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Subversion on 1and1 with Eclipse PDT

I’ve found a handy little plugin for Photoshop that lets you save files out in the .ICO format - handy for making favicons for your website! http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/ Download the “ICO (Windows Icon) Format” in Mac or Windows format, unzip and copy the “ICOFormat.8bi” file into your “File Formats” plugin folder located in “C:Program FilesAdobeAdobe Photoshop CS3Plug-InsFile Formats”. If you have Photoshop open, save your work, close it and start it again. You should now see “ICO (Windows icon) (*.ICO)” in the “Format” menu when you try to save a file.

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Creating Transparent favicon in Photoshop