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As I’m migrating from Subversion brainwaves I’ve been slowly adapting my workflow into Git’s. Problem was i was finding it hard to double check changes in my working folder to that of what was previously committed. In other words I missed the love of FileMerge.
So I began puttering around on the internet and found people [...]

Recently i started playing with TextMate because of all the hype and the billions of shortcuts it has. This was a big shift from the editor Coda.app on the Mac. Immediately i was taken by the ability to have themes! So i decided to create one myself. Adapted from the eclips3.media theme freely available.
Simply download [...]

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 Python, Django, what a framework was, what MVC was and [...]

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 like learning Ruby on Rails or another language and framework [...]

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 person with the tools and knowledge to get stuff done. [...]

This problem arose while i was trying to get a random phrase from a database into the <title> HTML elements across all views. Being fairly new to CakePHP i was overwhelmed by some people’s solutions to accessing models site wide. However they forgot what CakePHP is based on, MVC. Breaking this system will leave you [...]

I wanted to support my current love for Python. So i made these wallpapers from a logo i grabbed from the Python wikipedia page. Enjoy! Let me know if you use them

I just want to say a big thank you to Don over at http://don.citarella.net/ for providing his flash uploader script and applet to the web. I found a bug in his flash applet which would crash the javascript functions laid out. I notified Don about the bug and he fixed it within 2 days. So [...]

I have just created an IRC channel for discussing topics about Cocoa development. You can join via:
Server: irc.p2p-irc.net
Channel: #cocoa
See you there!

So i bought it today! I had to

I am struggling here learning objective-c for programming with cocoa! You see I came from a procedural type language, PHP. Yes PHP can be considered quite a newbie language however without it most of my sites would simply not have been built. Now going to objective-c i am finding it hard because it is obviously [...]

If you have been doing the other tutorials on this site you will notice that I have been teaching PHP and mySQL through projects. Projects that you can slot into your website, or if you are building a project, code that you can use within your project. I start from the ground up, assuming you [...]