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Week 11
CakePHP 1.3.0-RC2 released
http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/cakephp-1-3-0-rc2-releasedFollowing hot on the heels of CakePHP 1.3.0-RC1, the CakePHP development team is happy to announce the release the CakePHP 1.3.0-RC2.
All your $base are belong to Ajax
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cakealot/~3/6q9P5cPnHPI/We have custom routes, completly dynamic. We can even move the whole app to a subdirectory and still it works! So nice! But how to deal with that in static Javascript files? What about the Ajax and maybe some JS asset configs like image folders and suc...
Week 10
Sorting on aggregate and composite fields using pagination in 1.2
http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/sorting-on-aggregate-and-compo...While it may not be a common problem, I ran into this while working on a simple website I was building, and have recieved permission to share it with the community. I had a paginated table, and wanted a SUMed column to support sorting. This is how I ...
Component For Google Custom Search
http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/component-for-google-custom-se...This is a pretty simple component for retrieving your Google Custom Search Engine results and returning them to cake wrapped in an array. This will only work for a Business account which grants you access to the custom search api. Usage is quite simple...
Google static maps helper for CakePHP
http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/google-static-maps-helper-for-...This is a simple CakePHP helper to create static maps using google API. For more information on the api and how to get an api key consult the Google Static Maps API.
Detect mobile devices with the WURFL API
http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/detect-mobile-devices-with-the...This component uses the WURFL API to detect any mobile or wireless device, and sets custom paths for your views and css, so you can easily create a mobile version of your website.
Hostip.info - Accessing GeoIP information using HttpSocket
http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/hostip-info-accessing-geoip-in...This article will cover how to access geoIP information from hostip.info. Hostip.info is a community-based project to geolocate IP addresses, making the database freely available but it needs you to put in your city to make it work.
CSS: Goto Declaration
http://blogs.sun.com/netbeansphp/entry/css_goto_declarationThere is a new feature that allows navigate to CSS class or id selector declaration from CLASS or ID attribute of an HTML tag. When you go over a usage of a class or id selector with mouse pointer and the CTRL key is hold, then the selector is change...
Week 9
Fantastic Content Sliders for your Inspiration
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2010/03/fantastic-content-sliders-for-...Content sliders are extremely versatile forms of navigation that can be used to display all sorts of information, such as images, popular posts, social information and product features.
Some have automatic slideshow capabilities or buttons to scroll si...
JavaScript Meetup Hamburg + Slides
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/debuggable/~3/nkohVEbm3a0/javascript-me...Update: Andy Wenk posted a very nice summary of the event.
Last night Tim and I took a little road trip to Hamburg. I had no idea the Reeperbahn looked like Las Vegas : ).
Anyway, our actual destination was the first Hamburg JS meetup where Malte Ubl...
Upgrading the forum plugin to 1.8
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/milesj/~3/OOevirGcqgA/Upgrading-The-For...I have been working on the new 1.8 version of the forum for almost 2 months, simply because version 1.7 was completely broken. It used PHP 5.3 constants which didn't work on 99% of the users machines. This problem has now been corrected in the new 1.8 ...
Interview with Joel Moss creator of Codaset
http://pseudocoder.com/archives/interview-with-joel-moss-creator-of-co...Earlier this week Codaset.com, a software project management and code hosting site, officially left beta. Joel Moss (@joelmoss), the creator of Codaset, agreed to answer some questions and absolutely carried this interview.
Is there anyone else...
Updated ACL Plugin
http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/updated-acl-pluginAn updated ACL Plugin for 1.3. Allows creation/editing/removing of ACO, ARO and CRUD.
CakePHP 1.3-RC1 freshly sliced
http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/cakephp-1-3-rc1-freshly-slicedThe CakePHP development team is happy to announce the release the CakePHP 1.3.0-RC1. Since 1.3-beta was released we've been hard at work implementing new features and fixing issues in existing features in the 1.3 branch. There have been over 165 commit...
Thierry Carrez: The most popular Linux server product ?
http://fnords.wordpress.com/?p=241I was working on slides for a presentation I’ll be giving next month at UKUUG Spring conference in Manchester, and wanted to show the growth of Ubuntu Server usage, compared to other Linux enterprise-oriented server products.
Given that there is no r...
Week 8
Code Completion for Colors in CSS
http://blogs.sun.com/netbeansphp/entry/code_completion_for_colors_inAnother improvements that is based on your comments is code completion for colors in CSS rules. The code completion for color and background property offers now at first position an item that opens color chooser.
There is a standard Java colo...
Cipher Behavior with Zend_Filter for CakePHP 1.3 – Easy Two-Way Encryption
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JamieNay/~3/zkaEukvL2f8/Here’s a quickie – a Cipher behavior for CakePHP to handle two-way encryption of sensitive data. If you want to store, say, credit card information, you’ll need a way to retrieve it later; Cake’s built-in security hashing is one-way, meaning th...
Freedom
http://xkcd.com/706/Showcase of Great Web App Interfaces
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2010/02/showcase-of-great-web-app-inte...Web Apps are popping up everywhere. Five years or so ago, we could live without them, but as the internet has evolved we use them more and more in our daily lives.
We have put together a great compilation of beautiful web application interfaces.
The...
CSS Code Completion
http://blogs.sun.com/netbeansphp/entry/css_code_completionToday I don't continue in formatting posts:). I would like to mentioned the CSS code completion in html tags. It's new feature, that is also available in NetBeans 6.9 M1 build. Because the CSS files are now indexed, it allows to provide better support ...
Coming to PSN this Week: Darksiders Demo
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PSBlog/~3/nYeVXNYbu3Q/It’s been over a month since Darksiders released with near-universal critical praise, and the team at Vigil Studios is still hard at work. On Thursday, Vigil releases a demo for Darksiders. This isn’t your typical demo, however. It packs an unprece...
AUTHORS at bcf163da27676e26108ec430a392baee84f2831c from ry's node ...
http://github.com/ry/node/blob/bcf163da27676e26108ec430a392baee84f2831...Kevin van Zonneveld . Michael Carter . Jeff Smick . Jon Crosby ...
Week 7
NetBeans 6.9 Milestone 1 available
http://blogs.sun.com/netbeansphp/entry/netbeans_6_9_milestone_1The milestone 1 of NetBeans 6.9 was published. It's available here. Visit the NetBeans 6.9 New and Noteworthy page to learn more about all the new features and enhancements available in this milestone release.
Setting up cron jobs with Cake shells
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/milesj/~3/AYVaicPB0J8/Setting-Up-Cron-J...This post will primarily be about the process I had to go through to get cron jobs and shells working on Dreamhost. The main problem I kept running into was that the shells would simply not work at all through a cron job; yet they worked when I manuall...
Dropbox around the world!
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/dropbox/~3/WXIEyUBORuM/Hi everyone!
Hope February is treating all of you well. We’ve recently hit a huge milestone and now have over 4 million Dropbox users. The coolest part is that this crowd of millions is pretty diverse and encompasses a huge range of nationalities. We...
3D Dot Game Heroes Aren’t Born; They’re Made…in the Editor
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PSBlog/~3/yXOauyUjUUU/PlayStation.Blog chums,
Most games ask you to assume the role of a hero. Often, you don’t have any say in who they are or what they look like, and in some cases the customization options you’re given are limited. 3D Dot Game Heroes, while it takes ...
Formatting - Spaces I
http://blogs.sun.com/netbeansphp/entry/formatting_spaces_iThe next categories, where you can set up the formatting of PHP code is category Spaces. Currently there are implemented more then 40 options that are separated into six groups. All these options as other options, which were mentioned in previous pos...
Acl Extras Updated to CakePHP 1.3
http://mark-story.com/posts/view/acl-extras-updated-to-cakephp-1-3?utm...Over the long Ontario weekend, I took some time to update Acl Extras. It now works with plugins and the improvements made to the Auth + Acl for 1.3. The master branch contains the CakePHP 1.3 compatible version. While the 1.0.0 tag, and 1.0 branch a...