Category Archives: PHP

And We’re Back!

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 [...]

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Wow. ACL is Hard

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 [...]

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My Private Summer of Coding

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 [...]

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