Author Archives: jsutherland

ExtJS 4 Tree allowContainerDrop FUUUUUUUU!

By | November 17, 2011

So I’ve been doing some work with the ExtJS tree for the past few days. Day one – Getting the basic tree to work reading data from my api.. magic. Day two – updating that data using drag’n’drop from two grids of data -Separate post coming soon on this bee tee dub- a bit hellish, [...]

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ExtJS 4 checkbox empty values

By | October 23, 2011

Another quick one here. I’ve been using ExtJS on a new project and I’ve just noticed the default behaviour of the checkboxes in the form is a bit of a pain in the ass for working with server side. The default behaviour is to post ‘on’ when the checkbox is selected and nothing when its [...]

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Zend Server RabbitMQ OSX Lion – OMFG Whyyy!!

By | September 23, 2011

Just a quicky so that if I have to go through this again I’ve got it here. To install the amqp module for PHP under zend server is a nightmare when you’re kinda retarded like me. So here’s the steps. Install Zend Server (CE). Download rabbitmq-c using mercurial hg clone http://hg.rabbitmq.com/rabbitmq-c cd rabbitmq-c hg clone [...]

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Continuous Integration with phpUnderControl – Ubuntu 10.04 setup guide.

By | July 18, 2011

Here is quick and dirty step by step guide to getting a basic installation of phpUnderControl up and running on Ubuntu 10.04. Fired together mainly from correcting some academic PDF on how to configure phpUnderControl You should read it also as it goes into more depth on setting up your own project. This just gets [...]

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Doctrine 2 ODM QueryBuilder – addOr() The undocumented method of joy

By | July 1, 2011

OK So I was looking for away to find a document in MongoDB via Doctrine2′s DocumentMapper class and could find lots of examples on how to AND your queries together, but nothing on how to OR them. Unless I’m being blind there’s nothing in the documentation and I couldn’t find anything when hashing away with [...]

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New website – goodfortunechinese.co.uk

By | May 31, 2011

I’ve just finished a website for the Good Fortune chinese in South Queensferry. It is a fairly simple setup, using WordPress with a design from mojo-themes.com coupled with a menu system by openmenu.com check it out here!

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Juniper Network Connect, Ubuntu 10.04

By | March 3, 2011

Here’s a quick write up of how to get the Juniper Network Connect applet to run on Ubuntu 10.04. Here are some steps to get it installed and connected without having to visit the portal. The hard part of the work here has been done by some clever guy called Paul D Smith who has [...]

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DeferredKit & Zend_Json_Server

By | January 30, 2011

I was starting to think about putting together a little iPhone application to make use of an API I’d made using the Zend Framwork and Zend_Json_Server for an upcoming project. So I went hunting about for a framework that would support JSON-RPC and came across DeferredKit. I went about attempting to include it into a [...]

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Happy Birthday Tony!

By | January 16, 2011

So @anton1rĀ and I went out for a burn on the bikes up the Pentlands after shitty weather conditions killed the planned trip to Glenshee for some shred action. We took a trek through the Pentlands from Bonaly car park to Capelaw Hill. Very heavy winds made us flip the Monopoly board on going further into [...]

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