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Apple Mail gets stuck in a 'recovered mail' loop

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:51:36 +0000

I had a call today from a client who was having trouble with Apple Mail. Specifically, there was a 25mb email sent to him by a family member that Mail was continually trying to ‘recover’ and send up to his Google Apps mail account. After a bit of googling, the answer was pretty easy, though asking someone to use the ‘rm’ command who’s never used the Terminal.app was a little concerning :)

# Close Mail.
# Open a new terminal window and paste the following:
# ls -la
# Then replace ‘email@domain.com’ with the one that matches the account that’s having issues
# rm ~/Library/Mail/email@domain.com/.OfflineCache

That should fix it.

Setting up Samba share for a vmware OS

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:24:04 +0000

Sometimes it’s useful to be able to browse via the file system via a GUI. So on the advice of @AndyGale I installed Samba on my Ubuntu OS instance and created a share for the entire server. The first part of these instructions were from labs.boulevart.be.

open the samba config sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf
change “security=user” to “security=share”
comment out “passdb backend = tdbsam” and “obey pam restrictions = yes”
add a line saying “map to guest = bad user”
comment out the lines beginning “passwd program =” and “passwd chat = “

Then we need to add a new share to the conf

[share]
    path = / 
    read only = no
    guest ok = yes

Links for setting up a VMware dev server

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:31:33 +0000

Have waded through the net and found these the most useful.

Download VMWare Fusion demo from https://www.vmware.com/tryvmware/?p=vmware-fusion&lp=1
Get the server image you require from http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/#ubuntu8.04
Install using the guide that matches your download http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/howto/1-minute-guide.html#ubuntu8.04
Follow these instructions for installing SSH, VMWare tools http://intranation.com/entries/2009/03/development-virtual-machines-os-x-using-vmware-and/

Now you can set up apache, mysql etc as you would do normally on a VPS or dedicated box, using SSH.

Clean inputted html with CakePHP BritaBehaviour

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:52:48 +0000

I’ve been using TinyMCE as a text editor in my CMSs, and whilst it’s good, it can lead to the odd empty tag/para ending up in the html, font tags and all manner of other crap (especially if M$ Word has been involved at all), so I created a cakephp behaviour that uses the HTMLPurifier class to make all inputted html valid.

First, you need to download the most recent version of the HTMLPurifier class from http://htmlpurifier.org/download, drop this in /{app}/vendors, and save the pasted code as ‘brita.php’ in /{app}/models/behaviors/.

It’s dead simple to use, just do:

var $actsAs = array(
	'Brita'=>array('synopsis', 'body', 'extended_body')
);

In the model(s) you need to clean up.

Be careful what you chew

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:00:27 +0000

Be careful what you chew

Use MySQL's SUM function with CakePHP find()

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:18:15 +0100

Saw this on IRC earlier, thought I’d blog it as it’s pretty useful info.

Add this method to your AppModel:

public function sum($field='total')
{	
	$data = $this->find('first', array(
		'conditions'=>$conditions,
		'fields'=>array('SUM('.$field.') AS summed'),
		'contain'=>array()
	));
	return $data[0]['summed'];
}

Then call it like so:

$total = $this->Model->sum('cost');

Hope this is useful for someone.

update on find('neighbours') with HABTM

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:45:00 +0100

And, here, to cap off a really terrible brain day, is the solution, using cake’s core functionality, to the find(‘neighours’) with habtm conundrum!

$this->Mixture->bindModel(array('hasOne'=>array('MixtureCategoriesMixture')), false);
$this->set('neighbours', $this->Mixture->find('neighbors', array(
	'field' => 'Mixture.sku', 'value' => $this->data['Mixture']['sku'],
	'conditions'=>array(
		'MixtureCategoriesMixture.default'=>1,
		'MixtureCategoriesMixture.mixture_category_id'=>$this->data['MixtureCategory'][0]['id'],
		'Mixture.status'=>1
	)
)));

Doh, doh doh!

Update on find('neighbours');

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:18:00 +0100

After some IRCing, it appears I’d misunderstood how the array should work to get the method working correctly.

$this->set('neighbours', $this->Species->find('neighbors', array(
	'field' => 'Species.latin_name', 'value' => $this->data['Species']['latin_name'], 'order'=>'asc',
	'conditions'=>array(
		'Species.species_category_id'=>$this->data['Species']['species_category_id'],
		'Species.status'=>1
	)
)));

What a plonker.

Replacement for find('neighbours') when dealing with HABTM and extra join data

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:23:00 +0100

Found brain, solution realised, brainfart over, see http://blog.jben.net/post/125858269/update-on-find-neighbours-with-habtm

Long winded replacement for find('neighbours')

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:05:00 +0100

Brain found, solution realised, brain fart over, see http://blog.jben.net/post/125844770/update-on-find-neighbours

Mystery open_base_dir errors with CakePHP 1.2

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:45:00 +0000

A question came up on #cakephp about mystery open_base_dir errors, so I thought I’d document my fix. As I don’t use any other libraries when working with Cake projects, I simply removed the existing include path in /app/webroot/index.php.

on line 69 change:

ini_set('include_path', CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH . PATH_SEPARATOR . ROOT . DS . APP_DIR . DS . PATH_SEPARATOR . ini_get('include_path'));

ini_set('include_path', CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH . PATH_SEPARATOR . ROOT . DS . APP_DIR . DS);

Hope this helps someone.

First Post

Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:26:42 +0100

Found tumblr on bbc.co.uk news, probably won’t post again, but ya never know!