May 22, 2009 – 7:54 am
As someone who is not formally trained as a programmer, I often understand concepts long before actually putting them into practice. Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY) seems simple enough. Of course I don’t want to repeat myself while programming. Who wants to dig through lines of code to find a litte snippet of logic you once [...]
March 22, 2009 – 9:30 am
Every now and then I want to view my help files in pretty, formatted HTML instead of plain text in a text editor or terminal window. Right now I’m working on setting up some Access Control Lists (ACL) in the CakePHP Console. ACL is a powerful, yet sometimes hard-to-grasp concept. I always figure that if [...]
December 10, 2008 – 5:52 pm
At my day job, I’m working on an application to keep track of specimens for our lab. A specimen is sent to the lab, then divided into aliquots which are put into boxes and stored in freezers. The previous sentence ought to give you some idea of the architecture of the database, which in turn [...]
November 26, 2008 – 1:55 pm
Updated 12/3/2008
The other day I wrote about getting the Blueprint CSS framework into your Wordpress theme. If you’re developing in CakePHP, it’s even easier to link multiple style sheets and JavaScript libraries to your layout file.
<?php
$css = array(’blueprint/screen’, ‘blueprint/ie’, ’style’);
$jslibraries = array(’prototype’, ’scriptaculous’, ‘jquery’);
echo $html->css(’blueprint/print’, ’stylesheet’, ‘media=”print”‘);
echo $html->css($css, ’stylesheet’, ‘media=”screen, projection”’);
echo $javascript->link($jslibraries);
?>
Let’s take these one [...]
November 23, 2008 – 9:07 am
If you’re familiar with the Blueprint CSS framework, you already know it can make your life a lot easier. So how do you get it into your Wordpress theme? Luckily, Wordpress is designed to make your life easier too.
I’m assuming your know the basics of Wordpress Theme Development. That is, at the very least you [...]
September 22, 2008 – 2:55 pm
I have been so incredibly busy the last few months that aside for 140 character Twitter updates, I haven’t been able to keep this blog updated with my exploits.
If you are still paying attention, I was complaining about ACL. After several attempts, I gave up using the built-in ACL component in CakePHP and just decided [...]
June 20, 2008 – 12:55 pm
That is Access Control Lists. I’ve been developing with CakePHP this spring and summer and it was all going very well until I actually needed to control access to the application. It’s not even that CakePHP falls short here. There are apparently tons of built-in tools for managing access. They’re just poorly documented and the [...]
May 13, 2008 – 12:02 pm
A couple of weeks ago I met with Garrick VanBuren to talk about cullect.com. I came away from the lunch excited about two things: Trying out some of the features in cullect that I hadn’t quite understood before and giving Ruby on Rails another shot.
I went to lunch with Garrick to offer him some feedback [...]
