I’ve had an annoyance with my otherwise fantastic* Dell U2412M LCD where certain greys appear flickery. It happens on both the display port and the DVI input with a dongle from my Macbook Pro. Today I discovered that there is… Read More
RAM hogging mediumtext (MySQL)
Php can easily exceed its maximum allowed RAM allocation when trying to retrieve mediumtext fields from mysql. Background: Through some obscure misunderstanding/bug, I have from time to time ended up with a MySQL database that has mediumtext instead of the… Read More
Disabling autocomplete spellchecking in Safari 5 on Mac OS Lion
Apple have tried in Mac OS Lion to make Mac OS more like iOS. Something they borrowed from iOS is the autocomplete spellchecker. Mac OS has always had autofill (for filling in forms with address or past form data) and… Read More
Windows XP Print Spooler (spoolsv.exe) CPU hogging
One of my virtual machines is used extensively for word-processing. For reasons that are tangential to this post, I use Office 2003 on Windows XP. Recently I’ve had an issue where every few seconds, the mouse cursor turns into an… Read More
Internet Explorer compatible star ratings
Download star rating files Try demo Try demo with zero rating enabled As part of a website rebuild, I recently created a really nice star rating system using pure css (with a healthy sprinkling of :hover attributes) to display the… Read More
Suspending VMWare Player over SSH
I have quite a large array of virtual machines that I use for a variety of purposes. From hosting development versions of my websites, to SVN, to Windows XP machines I can quickly VNC onto to test my stylesheets on Internet… Read More
Using wp-syntax plugin
The WP-syntax plugin works ok with the WYSIWYG editor, as long as you put your code in using the html tab. To display code using the plugin, place the following tags around your code: <pre lang=”language” line=”1″> Your code goes… Read More
Memcached
Whilst this is rather an advanced topic to start off this blog, it is very fresh in my mind still… I recently had a play with Memcached, a RAM based caching system used by large websites such as Facebook. Memcached… Read More
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