The vmware-vdiskmanager.exe that comes with VMware Server can defrag and shrink your virtual drives.. But to make life easier check out these automated BAT files someones written to help out with the tasks. But remember not run this on VM’s that have snapshots!!
Archive for September, 2007
Part 1: Access Control List – a model to solve all models!
Posted: 14th September 2007 by Grant Perry in PHP, Programming (app), Zend FrameworkI’m involved in the development of a large web application (using Zend Framework) with many different types of entities inside! Some functions performed on these entities should be accessible to some users but not others… To make things more interesting users can assign other users with rights to these entities… We’re going for a hands [...]
Introduction to version control (Trunk/Branches/Tags)
Posted: 10th September 2007 by Grant Perry in Subversion, Version controlVersion control (also known as Revision control or Source control) is the management of different versions of files. I don’t know how large development teams could survive without it! Typically they all have one thing in common they help multiple developers contribute to a single project using an central server. But how can it help? [...]
Currently Zend_Auth won’t work if you’re using a Micrsoft SQL Server database for storing your account credentials. This is because of a bug in the \Zend\Auth\Adapter\DbTable.php specifically in the authenticate() function. The SQL Statement it generates is not MS SQL friendly: SELECT "users".*, "credential" = ‘mypass’ AS zend_auth_credential_match FROM "users" WHERE ("identity" = ‘me’) Consequently [...]