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VMWare Virtual Machines on NTFS
17 April 2008

I keep having a problem with my virtual machines. I'm running kubuntu but the virtual machines are on an NTFS partition (because I use them from windows occasionally). The error message appears at startup and goes like this:

VMware Player unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0)

Failed to allocate page for guest RAM …
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Geekup Talk
17 April 2008

I did mention recently that I had arranged to speak at the local GeekUp group. Well, the event itself was last night and although I did have speaking nerves I think it went OK.

I've uploaded the slides I used to Slideshare, so you can find them here. The talk …
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SugarCRM SOAP API
15 April 2008

I don't know when SugarCRM, the open source CRM tool, first acquired a SOAP API but I missed it completely. I've used SugarCRM a few times, on quite a casual level, and only fell across the SOAP API because I needed it.

The first thing to note is that the …
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GeekSpeakr
14 April 2008

I saw this article on linuxchix about the new register of women speakers that has been set up by Brenda Wallace of linuxchix. The site is called geekspeakr and although it claims to be "very alpha" they are currently registering female speakers. I don't have a lot of speaking experience …
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Speaking at GeekUp in Leeds
13 April 2008

This week I will be giving a 20:20 talk at the GeekUp event in Leeds, entitled "Enterprise Web Development". The 20:20 talk format allows talks with 20 slides, with 20 seconds allowed for each slide. Wish me luck :)

If you're local to Leeds, I'd love to see you …
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SugarCRM Custom Fields
09 April 2008

'Tis the week for code snippets it seems - actually its mostly that I'm working with SugarCRM in anger for the first time and falling into a few traps. Due to the unique way in which this product is funded, there is a lot less community support around than I'd expect …
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PHP5 SOAP Error in non-WSDL Mode
08 April 2008
I just came across a really strange error while using PHP5's excellent SOAP functionality. My SoapClient was operating in non-WSDL mode but when I called function that did not exist I got the error:
```
Operation 'getFunctions' is not defined in the WSDL for this service
```
After spending quite a long …
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Software That Costs Money?
06 April 2008

I haven't paid money for software for a long time. I bought a student license for Microsoft Office in 1999, and I've definitely bought a laptop that came with Windows since then, but that's about it. I've given money to organisations that made my software, but I can't think of …
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ZendCon Call For Papers
04 April 2008

The ZendCon Call For Papers is now open. This conference is one of the biggest of the year but unfortunately is only held in the US. This year I am planning to submit talks for consideration for the first time ... wish me luck :)

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PHP on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon with PDO and PDO_mysql
31 March 2008

A (very) quick tutorial on setting up mysql PDO libraries for PHP on ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon.

This version of PHP is the default one that comes with this version, 5.2.3. Check you have installed the php5-common package from aptitude as this includes the pdo.so file. If you …
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Ubuntu/Kubuntu and mod_rewrite
25 March 2008

I just spent a couple of days, on and off, fiddling with my apache setup on a kubuntu box. I had a site with some very weird and scary rewrite rules which I needed to do some development work with and I just could not get the site to work …
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Geshi and Serendipity for Code Snippets
25 March 2008

I write on technical subjects on this site on a fairly regular basis, and nothing annoys me more than blog software which "eats" long lines of code or renders it in a difficult-to-read way. Happily Serendipity (or s9y for short) has a plugin for geshi.

About GeSHi

I thought "geshi …
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