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5Jun
2011

WordPress update permission issues

WordPress can often be such a pain to deal with…

Recently I was trying to get an installation updated as well as some of the plugins. What should have been a straightforward task, turned out to be several hours of messing around with permissions and trying to figure out why even 777 isn’t enough for the updates to NOT fail and what user should own what.

Well it turns out that it’s only partly the fault of WordPress as it is an issue with the FTP server. Still some better messaging would be helpful…

There were mentions about a patch and fixes in potentially in the 3.2 WP version related to the error I was getting:

Could not copy file.: /public_html/wp-admin/css/theme-editor.dev.css

However only after stumbling across this page I found an easy and quick solution.

Turns out it was enough to just switch from Pure-FTPD to Pro-FTPD.

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Posted by Joanna Chlasta at 10:24pm
15Dec
2010

Installing Windows 7 Guest on VMWare 7 on OpenSuse 11.3 Host

Maybe this will help anyone else stuck on the installation.

For a long while my Windows 7 install inside VMWare 7 would get stuck at “expanding files 0%”. I kept thinking it was my machine and setup that was causing issue, after all a x64 tablet pc is not your most common config. Just in case anyone is curious I’ve got a Thinkpad x201t.

After trying both 32bit and 64bit Windows 7 version, upgrading my RAM from 4GB to 8GB and trying out changing the virtual disk location from ntfs to ext3 and back I was quickly running out of options.

Unfortunately VMWare support is extremely picky about your os versions and didn’t even try to suggest anything unless I downgraded to OpenSuse 11.2 – which was not an option due to certain driver compatibility.

Fortunately I decided to give it one more go and instead of using my external dvd drive for the Windows 7 installation I saved the DVD as iso and run the installation that way. And there you go, that was the solution!

My suspicion was the fact that my DVD drive is usb powered, however while looking for a solution I saw similar questions being asked for other linux hosts and no mention of external DVD drives, so it might be a more generic issue.

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Posted by Joanna Chlasta at 11:49pm
16Dec
2009

Zend_Date time part and GMT

If you live in the UK you might have a surprise waiting in store for you if you use Zend_Date for the time part only. For a while I even thought this was a bug, however digging deeper has shown that actually it’s Zend_Date that is right, in a way at least.

When setting a time before 1972 – this is 1970 and 1971 the time part will not be shifted in the UK locale as DST was only introduced in 1972!

This means if you are only calculating times and need the appropriate time adjustment you will need to set a date as no date part in Zend_Date means 1st Jan 1970.

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Posted by Joanna Chlasta at 09:06pm
22Feb
2009

How To Use the Strong Ownership List

Some time ago I wrote about the idea of the Strong Ownership List approach. A recent comment on that post has made me realize that for the idea to be better understood and easier to apply I probably should describe the process it involves in more detail. (more…)

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Posted by Joanna Chlasta at 01:39am
19Feb
2009

Improving Design by Using a Grid System

When I first heard of grids for design (and frameworks for CSS as a matter of fact) I was quite sceptical. Why limit yourself to a predefined outline? Mathematical precision in a creative process? Well needless to say I was surprised with the outcome.

Obviously you do tend to repeat certain pieces of code over and over in a project, but a framework? Behind a word like that usually stands a complex set of predefined elements. Though solid and reliable, these are often not very flexible and not easily modifiable. And the last two features seem to be crucial for projects that involve html and css. (more…)

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Posted by Joanna Chlasta at 02:49pm
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