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Internet Programming

First Post from my BlackBerry thanks to WordPress

February 4, 2010

I never realize how in the dark I am until someone shows me the light. Well, that light came courtesy of Mashable today when they annonced Wordpress released their own app for Blackberry. This is an upgrade from the beta release last summer. Essentially (I think), I can do anything I want from my phone [...]

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Tiny CakePHP Plugin Released

May 27, 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 [...]

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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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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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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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MySQL Data Structure for your CakePHP Website – Building Associations

February 4, 2009

In MySQL Data Structure for your CakePHP Website – Site Planning, I used the CakePHP concept of building a blog using the popular PHP framework. However, different from what you may have read in the manual, I wanted to go into greater detail about the processes involved. Primarily, in the previous article we [...]

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KISS – Keep It Simple Stupid – Designing the Layout

February 1, 2009

I recently created a very-simplistic, yet highly effective and attractive website layout I called “KISS” or “Keep It Simple”.  Though the layout focused on a literal “kiss” theme, in this article you should be able to find colors that best suite your goals and images that compliment those colors and goals.  My first goal, of [...]

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MySQL Data Structure for your CakePHP Website – Site Planning

January 30, 2009

In the first part of MySQL Data Structure for your Website, I wrote a nice simple intro on how you can save data storage and bandwidth by properly setting up your application’s database.  We’re going to continue in more depth but also focus on gathering all of the requirements we need.  Since CakePHP loves to [...]

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MySQL Data Structure for your CakePHP Website

January 29, 2009

What better way to start off a new blog than pretend I’m building a website from the ground up. Of course, the first mistake many people will make when building a website is concentrating on the graphic design or the layout. It is not where the focus should lie.  That is where the [...]

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