Looking for Writers

by timtrice on 15 June 2009

First, I’m excited to announce a new website I’ve been working on which is basically what I’ve wanted this blog to be but it’s just not brandable like the new one.  Spider Daily is an internet magazine with focus on graphic design, programming, marketing.  It aims to be a mix between Sitepoint and Smashing Magazine and encourage friendly debates from different views.  The website is very new and I am looking for writers who want to contribute and get paid in one way or another.  We hope to introduce a custom-designed theme tonight or tomorrow and with that start launching new and fresh content.  And we hope you will help become a part of that.  We are looking for well-written, educated articles – not crummy tutorials, gripes or short blurbs (such as, “Hey, did you know you can do this with Wordpress?  Cool”.)  Tell the audience how and why it is beneficial and what are the advantages/disadvantages of doing such.  Help us make SD something fresh and spectacular!

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Tiny CakePHP Plugin Released

by timtrice on 27 May 2009

How would you like a CakePHP plugin that lets you create your own custom tinyurl’s for advertising and social services?  I just published the plugin which you can download as of tonight.  I’m quite proud of this plugin as I think it adds great value to a website and was rather easy to write.  I hope to write a plugin for Joomla and Wordpress soon (provided they do not exist).  I did not see it for CakePHP so figured I’d give it a run.  All in all took just a few hours.  Not too bad.  Hope you all find it useful.

BTW, this plugin is in no way affiliated with TinyUrl or any other such website.  It is coded only by myself and is released under the same license as CakePHP.  You can modify and alter as you see fit.

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Introducing F-E-E-D-Z.com – Directory for RSS and Atom Feeds

April 1, 2009

I recently had realized I subscribed to too many feeds.  This really wasn’t an issue for me except that it dawned on me that of all the feeds I subscribe to I still scour the internet looking for more information on my topics of interest.  Some websites I visit do not have feeds (believe it [...]

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Setting up Virtual Hosts on Apache and Windows

March 22, 2009

Website programmers need the ability to test their products on their local computers.  Testing them on a live website, even if hidden behind the best authentication, can quite often become time-consuming.  Even just a five second file transfer here and there can add up to lost minutes and hours.  Thankfully, it is extremely easy to [...]

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Flipping Websites

February 27, 2009

Flipping a website can be a rather lucrative business when you look at returns.  Real estate investing is considered successful returning a 20% profit.  Stocks can bring between 10% to 15% annual profit.  Even highly volatile stock options infrequently return 40%-plus within just a couple of months.  But rarely will any of those match the [...]

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How to lose data in CakePHP

February 20, 2009

I finally sat down to figure out why scripts for my hurricane website were acting up.  All I knew is for some reason certain yearly archives were not displaying via the pages or by direct linking.  My initial thought was that, for some reason, the for loop in my view was skipping iterations.  After crossing [...]

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KISS – Keep It Simple Stupid – The 960 Grid

February 14, 2009

The 960 Grid System is a CSS framework that allows for easy implementation of most any type of layout using only a few classes. The basic usage behind 960 requires a fixed layout of 960 pixels. There are two grid systems that can be used: a 12-column grid layout or a 16-column grid [...]

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Sitepoint.com Philanthropy Receives Major Criticism

February 13, 2009

Sitepoint recently offered a wonderful 5-for-1 pdf book deal with all of the proceeds being donated to the Australian Red Cross Victorian Bushfire Appeal.  Certainly a worthy cause and one that had designers and programmers such as myself rushing to get in on the action.  In fact, within the first day Sitepoint’s original goal of [...]

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KISS – Keep It Simple Stupid – Slicing the Layout

February 13, 2009

We designed a simple, sleek template in Photoshop that we named KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid). This template was created with several factors involved. First, we wanted most of our important content to appear “above the fold”. Second,we wanted an off-balance look to add uniqueness to our website. Third, we wanted [...]

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MySQL Data Structure for your CakePHP Website – Associations and Building the MVC

February 10, 2009

In MySQL Data Structure for your CakePHP Website – Building Associations, we discussed the basics of building associations and the differences between belongsTo, hasOne, hasMany, and hasAndBelongsToMany model associations. This basic setup in our models could not have been done easily without setting up our databases correctly which we discussed in MySQL Data Structure [...]

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