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Changes to the Events system in CakePHP 3.0 7 Aug 2013 | 07:50 am
The events system has become an integral part of CakePHP since its introduction in 2.1. When originally introduced, we needed to make a number of compromises in the implementation to facilitate compat...
Two new side projects - xhgui2 & lint-review 22 Jun 2013 | 05:54 am
I try to keep fairly busy. Between work, being a dad, and working on existing open source projects, I found time to work on two new ones. Xhgui2 Profiling is a very interesting topic for me. I love ...
Moving to linode 24 May 2013 | 06:36 am
I recently moved hosting for this blog and my wife’s site to a shiny new linode. I did this because I wanted to have control over the versions of PHP, and other server software I ran. I had some issue...
Installing CakePHP with Composer 25 Apr 2013 | 07:27 am
I really like how composer simplifies dependency management & installation. It can make applications more portable, and simpler to deploy when compared to the pear installer. Another really nice featu...
Remote debugging with vim and xdebug 24 Mar 2013 | 05:50 am
A while back I posted on twitter that I had figured out how to use xdebug & vim and promised to do a blog post on how I got it all working. This is that blog post. Before we can get started using Vim ...
Testing CakePHP plugins with Travis CI 8 Mar 2013 | 06:17 am
Making sure your freshly released CakePHP plugin still passes all of its tests can be a bit of a time sink. Setting up Jenkins for small project can be a big job. After I setup Jenkins once or twice, ...
The improved HTTP Client in CakePHP 3.0 2 Feb 2013 | 11:34 pm
Many of the web applications I build have to talk to other webservices. Sometimes those services are internal API servers, sometimes they are external. In both situations, I want a simple, easy to use...
Selenium synchronization with custom events 28 Dec 2012 | 01:32 am
At work we’ve been using selenium webdriver to enable automated browser testing as part of our regression suite. One of the most difficult parts we’ve had is maintaining DOM synchronization.
Creating custom selectors with jQuery 3 Dec 2012 | 08:35 am
I recently re-discovered a powerful, but mostly hidden feature of jQuery. If you’ve used jQuery for any length of time you’ve probably used filter selectors like :input, :visible or :hidden. What you ...
Creating customer selectors with jQuery 3 Dec 2012 | 08:35 am
I recently re-discovered a powerful, but mostly hidden feature of jQuery. If you’ve used jQuery for any length of time you’ve probably used filter selectors like :input, :visible or :hidden. What you ...
