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Add more space to a VMWare Virtual Machine
I prefer to dev in a linux environment, but I don’t always prefer to run a linux desktop. So for my setup I run a linux desktop in VMWare Player so that I have the best of both worlds. The other advantage is this setup allows me to take my dev setup with [...]
Netbeans, PHPUnit, and You
My love affair with NetBeans continues. The latest discovery in the long list of things to rave about is it’s newly built in (was part of the 6.7 Beta release) support for unit testing with PHPUnit. There is a nice tutorial over on the NetBeans site that gets you up and running with it in [...]
Speed Tests of Zend_Config Approaches
On a project I’m working on we are using bits and pieces from the Zend Framework. We want to utilize the Zend_Config functionality to be able to standardize and make it easier to setup as well as access config information. We also wanted a way to be able to have the config automatically reflect the [...]
PHP multibyte character dumbness
I got bit this week by something that I have somehow managed to avoid via complete dumb luck up till now. It’s the fact that PHP is retarded when it comes to handling UTF-8 strings.
I couldn’t figure out why a string kept coming out with gibberish on the end. The app was truncating the string [...]
