There’s no point in me trying to sell mongoDB to you, just go over to the mongoDB site and read up on its excellence. This is how I got mongoDB working on Debian Squeeze. It should work for other Deb based flavours – I’m thinking Ubuntu. I also have a PHP5x setup so you may [...]
It sells itself: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Feature: Tutor [...]
The new website for my CakePHP development company, Zumo Internet is now live. I’ve been building with PHP for 10 years, but over the past 2 years all of my projects have been built using CakePHP. I’ve never looked back as far as stability and speed of development is concerned. So if you are looking [...]
I enjoy CakePHP’s structure and methods so much that I have started using it for my non-database driven projects and for prototyping big projects. However, when no database is present CakePHP throws a warning that it can’t connect to the database. The solution is to create a dummy database connection to convince CakePHP that all [...]
— DISCLAIMER: someone may tell me where I went wrong shortly after publication — When I develop CakePHP apps, my local database configiration file is very different from the live one. Therefore, when I am using Git to push my changes to a live environment I want to be sure this file is not pushed. [...]
It’s not often that Something For the Weekend - BBC2′s Sunday morning easy-watching offering – completely changes one of my fundamental beliefs. Though that may because it’s not often that I watch it. The truth is, that had it not been for this tweet by @profbriancox, the ragged trousered cosmologist, I’d have no doubt been out [...]
The CakePHP framework API is a treasure trove of often undiscovered methods and functionality. Recently I came across the Inflector Class methods and noticed the “slug” method close to the bottom of the documentation, which is documented thus: Returns a string with all spaces converted to underscores (by default), accented characters converted to non-accented characters, [...]
CakePHP’s database abstraction is just one of the reasons to use this powerful framework for agile web development. However, it is not always obvious how to build complex queries. I recently had to implement a MySQL full text search against a music database that searched on titles, descriptions and tags. Full text search is a [...]
Today, my G5 (Leopard) started displaying the Set Up Assistant everytime it booted. Even after completing setup it was impossible to access the GUI. It was held in a continuous. If you get caught in the Leopard Setup Assistant Loop Bug, here is the way to get your Mac booting again with no loss of [...]
I’ve been working with jQuery to spice up my interfaces for over 12 months now and figured it’s time to share some of the little techniques I’ve developed on the way. The first is something I use quite alot when I am giving users the ability to administer lists of items in bulk. That including [...]