So I think it's about time I started blogging again
01 Nov 2009
Yeah, I know.
It's been almost a year since I last used my blog - mainly for the usual excuses (too much work, real life gets in the way) but also because quite simply I didn't have the right frame of mind to form coherent sentances that I felt were worth publishing. In the past few weeks (months?) I haven't been around on irc much, haven't had much time for skimming the...
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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Speed up your dev: write custom bake templates
28 Nov 2007
When I first started using cake, bake wasn't around. It took quite some time for me to decide to give it a go, but at that time what bake gave wasn't customizable, as such it's use was limited since it took nearly as much time to bake and edit the files as it did to just write the files (once you know what you are doing that is). Roll the clock forward a bit and bake ...
Generic File Upload Behavior
14 Sep 2007
On a recent project I had to address the requirement that the admin user can "upload any type of file and associate it with any of the models in the system". In reality this seems to be a rather logical and common requirement. For quite a while now I've been collecting bits of info on how to upload files with cake and it's about time to begin sharing the knowledge. Did I say ...
Announcing ?DM0eight
11 Sep 2007
I usually only write about technical things here, but there are some things that are worth sharing. Still, it's boring to just blurt things out so for anyone reading the title to this blog thinking "huh?" (and I bet that's most of you) here are some hints to help figure out what it means:
- My net name is AD7six
- This is made up of my initials and the year I was...
Production setup revisited
24 Aug 2007
A while ago I wrote about how to have a production setup on a shared host, an insightful comment from CraZyLeGs pointed out that the same idea could be extended (on either a shared of dedicated machine) to allow multiple applications to be installed on the same server, and have multiple parallel versions of cake installed as well. For some time, and in reality probably...
Following Cake's code standards
25 Jun 2007
If a team of developers follow a set of agreed code standards, it makes life a whole lot easier to compare (i.e. a diff) of two versions of the same code and see what has changed. If you try to compare two version of the exact same code formatted differently, the result will be a lot of highlighted differences when in terms of functionality they are the same. This is quite ...