Compression v1.4

Compression is a light weight class that will load a CSS stylesheet, bind and translate given variables, compress and remove white space and cache the output for future use.

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Mar
3

Upgrading the forum plugin to 1.8

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I have been working on the new 1.8 version of the forum for almost 2 months, simply because version 1.7 was completely broken. It used PHP 5.3 constants which didn't work on 99% of the users machines. This problem has now been corrected in the new 1.8 version, but that's not all that changed. All topics, forums and forum categories now use the sluggable behavior for pretty URLs. Furthermore, the Installer has been rewritten completely for faster and easier usage. The main purpose of this post is to direct you in the 1.8 upgrade process as there are many things you need to do. Continue reading...
Feb
17

Setting up cron jobs with Cake shells

6 comments, 323 views
This post will primarily be about the process I had to go through to get cron jobs and shells working on Dreamhost. The main problem I kept running into was that the shells would simply not work at all through a cron job; yet they worked when I manually did it through SSH. The weird thing was the source of the console/cake file was being printed in my logs, instead of executed. Continue reading...
Jan
30

Pitfalls within Cake's Cache engine

2 comments, 418 views
For the past week I have been working on a DataSource for the WeGame API. Everything was working fine until I added some logic to cache the results. From there I ran into a few problems, here is how I resolved it. Continue reading...
Jan
25

Minimalistic approach to class getters and setters

5 comments, 366 views
Getters and Setters are the backbone of many PHP classes (or any programming language class), as they allow you to alter and retrieve class properties during runtime. Many well thought and powerful scripts and frameworks make use of Getters and Setters, but is there a thing as too much? Or are there better and easier alternatives? Continue reading...
Jan
19

Element creation in jQuery 1.4

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Before I start, id like to say hats off to the jQuery team, as 1.4 is looking beautifully so far. Ive already ran into about 3 problems that were fixed with the new features in 1.4, like the parentsUntil() function. However, the post today will be about the new element creation system using the core jQuery method, $(). In 1.4 you can now create an element by passing the tag name as the first parameter, and an object of attributes as the second. Continue reading...