The Cookbook Source is released into the wild
20 Nov 2008
It's been a long time coming, but we finally got around to creating a publicly visible repository for the Cookbook's source code. This seems like worthy news to (re)commence blogging again after my extended silence.
Where is it? it's hosted on The Chaw, and here's the direct link.
Enjoy.
Andy
Mysql - don't forget if you set innodb_force_recovery
26 May 2008
Today I got the following error message:
andy@andy-desktop:~/www$ mysql -uroot < db_dump.sql ERROR 1030 (HY000) at line 2564: Got error -1 from storage engine
andy@andy-desktop:~/www$ mysql -uroot < db_dump.sqlERROR 1030 (HY000) at line 2564: Got error -1 from storage engine
I couldn't figure out what could possibly be the cause - the file was valid and worked on another machine.
So that I don't forget the next time I come across this error, and that something exists on the web...
Bad News
28 Apr 2008
I'm regretting announcing our happy news at the moment, as sadly Diana died before she was born.
Somewhat ironically so did this blog while we took some time off to reflect.... back now of course.
Bake yourself a complete admin backend - in one call
24 Mar 2008
Happy Christmas leveille!
How would you like to be able to generate your entire admin backend in one call? Not interesting enough? How about with built in index filters and by writing practically no code? Well... keep reading then :).
The code
The code I am discussing here is available from the Noswad cakeforge project. Be sure to read the release note.
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Ego v Benefit
19 Feb 2008
As many will now know the Cookbook for CakePHP is now live. Coupled with the Bakery that should mean that documentation, and finding info regarding cake, just got a whole lot easier. These two applications now mean that the scope for this blog is reduced to things that I don't deem either book worthy (not documenting how to use something) or bakery worthy (useful info that is...
Visualize your models
26 Jan 2008
Happy new year!
Way back in December I found an awesome article by Cakeexplorer on a script to build an image of your db schema. I had been meaning to write such a script for some time, it was great to have it already ticked off the to-do list.
There was one thing that I didn't like too much: it ran off the tables in the db rather than the models in your app/models...