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Mounting the VMWare Tools Installation CD
02 October 2008
I was recently installing the VMWare tools onto a debian etch virtual machine which I downloaded from the thoughtpolice.co.uk site, and I ran into problems. When the installation instructions from thoughtpolice say to type
```
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/
```
This gives me an error about "You must specify the …
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Tinyurl Shortcut in Opera
29 September 2008

I am an irssi user - I have issues with mice (I don't use one) and so the text-based IRC client works wonderfully well for me. It also looks less like a chat client and more like I might be working on a terminal screen, which was more useful before I …
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Schedule for PHPNW
26 September 2008

Today saw the publication of the schedule for the PHP North West Conference - you can see it in full on their site. There are some great speakers lined up - Johannes Schlüter, Rob Allen and Stefan Koopmanschap to name just a few that immediately jump out of the page. Tickets aren't …
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Excitement at Ibuildings
25 September 2008

I didn't post much of a wrap-up after ZendCon - partly because that trip ran into the start of another one and I only got home properly yesterday, and partly because something happened in California that I couldn't talk about until now. One thing I did want to mention is that …
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My Sister's Graduation
23 September 2008

Yesterday I attended my little sister's graduation ceremony - she has a BA in Early Childhood Studies from University College Birmingham and I am so proud of her I can't actually express it! She's worked hard to get to here and the path was not always smooth. I uploaded a selection …
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Update from ZendCon
17 September 2008

I'm currently in California, at ZendCon. I'm having way too much fun to blog but there is a writeup on the phpwomen site of my experiences so far. I've met some great people, and its long days but I'm learning a lot! I've (been) volunteered for an uncon session later …
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Using curl and PHP to talk to a REST service
15 September 2008

Having recently written articles about curl and about writing a PHP REST server, I thought I'd complete the circle and put here a few notes on using PHP's curl wrapper as a Rest client. Also I had to look some of this up when I needed to actually do it …
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PHPNW Update
12 September 2008

With just over a week remaining on the PHP North West Call for Papers, plans for this Manchester-based conference are fairly racing along. The call for papers closes on 21st September (in time for me arriving home from ZendCon so we can make some decisions before I shoot off again …
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Crochet Tutorial: Granny Square Round 2
10 September 2008

Here's the last in the crochet tutorial series, showing how to fit a second round of granny square onto the existing "granny's daughter" that we made previously. I'll have to take some photos of stuff I've done with this pattern to give you some ideas of what can actually be …
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Acer Aspire One and an XD Card
09 September 2008

I may have mentioned my new acer aspire one already, and I probably also mentioned the problems I had with it not reading my camera card. The camera is a Fuji Finepix, and the card is a 2GB XD card - XD is the format used by Fuji and by Olympus …
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Laceweight Purple Mohair
06 September 2008

I am a habitual chunky-yarn knitter. I will go all the way down to double knit weight, but beyond that I find life is too short to bother :) The upshot of this is that my projects get very big very quickly. I have a few trips coming up where I …
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PHP Rest Server (part 3 of 3)
05 September 2008

Edit: I have a newer series of articles on this topic. You can start reading here :)

This is part 3 of my article about writing a restful service server. If you haven't already, you might like to read part 1 (covering the core library and grabbing the information we need …
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