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18. January 2010

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Referee plugin, error handling and exception driven development in CakePHP

I recently stumbled on an article discussing the responsibility a developer has to be aware of any errors, warnings or notices that their application may throw while in use so that they can act upon it– exception driven development.

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26. October 2009

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Providing common functionality with AppShell

After writing a couple shells for CakePHP I noticed that I kept repeating the same things. Many of my shells had more or less a handful of the same methods in their code. I tried refactoring these tidbits into tasks in the interest of keeping things DRY but a few of the things I wanted [...]

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Unix Behavior Revisited

25. March 2009

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Unix Behavior Revisited

I’d spend some time writing up a big, long winded message about how I’ve been busy and unable to get to releasing this code but, we’ll skip straight to the code and some updates about it. Added a ::disableUnix() method for turning it off in the event that you need to turn it off when doing, [...]

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21. May 2009

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CakePHP, Adwords and Analytics

We launched a Google Adwords campaign to promote a product of ours recently here at work and after a couple days we noticed that we were getting a large amount (a “buttload” according to QA) of 404s on our shiny, new website.

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18. August 2008

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Grooveshark Review

Grooveshark Review

My good friend and fellow blogger Sean Privitera posted earlier today about an online web application in a similar vein as Last.fm and Pandora called Grooveshark.

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17. August 2008

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Steam Cleaning

Steam Cleaning

Apparently the carpet in my apartment is never sated by the near constant amount of dirt and grime that is trudged across it, it happily soaks up every bit of filth that it [...]

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16. August 2008

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Dynamic Navigation in CakePHP

Dynamic Navigation in CakePHP

Ever wanted URLs in your CakePHP application the follow your Tree behavior and allow for categories and subcategories?

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16. July 2008

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Pizza via Command Line

Pizza via Command Line

Too lazy to pickup the phone and call Domino's? Or just looking for one of the nerdiest ways to order a pizza? Well this is, hands-down easily the winner.

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16. July 2008

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Most Used Commands

Most Used Commands

Just out of curiosity and because I saw the command linked off a blog I went ahead and found out what my most used commands under Linux is. Kind of interesting to see.

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