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DarthFader: A jQuery Carousel Plugin with Force

Working with a fair few jQuery image sliders I started to get frustrated with the quirks and rules of some of them. Requiring a paragraph tag to simply add in a caption, only order lists supported, not my cup of tea. So for a new... [+]

Picking up where strtotime() left off

I was working on a project where dates were being calculated (sort of) based on user input. For example the user was able to type in “Next Saturday” or the “Second Sunday of the Month”. This wouldn’t really be sortable, as strtotime doesn’t exactly allow... [+]

Accelerated Learning through Pressure

So my co-worker left 2 weeks ago to have a 3 month journey across Australia. This means that I am now in charge of all the web development/projects for our business. For one developer, the amount of “active” (bugs/todos) projects we have open for one... [+]

CakePHP & Caching Until a Future Post

We had implemented a caching system for all find, pagination and pagination count methods with CakePHP. You can find a post on this here. The cache was expiring after every hour, however we failed to realise something. Our CMS system that we built allows posts... [+]

My CakePHP Learning Experience

I first got into CakePHP roughly 3-4 months ago. It was a result of me dropping the Python & Django books and running back to the PHP world, which I was already familiar with. I simply didn’t have the time to wrap my head around... [+]

CakePHP Manual: People with no internet

My net is capped at a lame speed of 6kbs. That’s what happens when you try to enjoy content on the internet and live in Australia. So when i’m trying to get some documentation for my CakePHP project i end up waiting like 5minutes for... [+]

My First Contact With CakePHP

My First Contact With CakePHP

If you have been reading the blog lately you will of noticed that I have changed my development path from Django using Python to CakePHP, tada, using PHP. I spent quite alot of time attempting to elarn both Python and the Django framework together. Much... [+]

CakePHP: Using Apress & Packt

CakePHP: Using Apress & Packt

I love buying books. Taking one look at my bookcase makes this quite obvious. I do have quite a large selection of computer related books. I find that by reading into the subject matter, especially for programming, before acting on ideas or tasks provides a... [+]