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Laravel 4 Database Seeding with Faker 24 Jun 2013 | 01:37 am
Database seeding can be a pain to perform and end up very clumsy. Seeding is a process required in the majority of web applications – either for stress testing or just to generate a reasonable sample ...
TalkTalk Business Websites – A Brief Encounter 1 Mar 2013 | 01:01 am
I’ll keep this purposely short. I’m just in the process of attempting to transfer a basic 3 page static website, with a contact form from TalkTalk Business to my own hosting provider. This should be a...
Opencart 1.5.5 – Product Filters 3 Feb 2013 | 09:40 pm
Opencart have implemented product filters as of 1.5.5. In my opinion, category level product filters are a much needed feature and something Opencart has been lacking for a while. However, in true Ope...
Counter Cache 6 Jan 2013 | 11:19 pm
Counter Cache (or Counter Cache Columns) is the term coined when adding a column to data tables in order to keeps track of aggregate data in an application. The term “cache” is used because the applic...
Bodyforms’ Perfect Response to Facebook Rant 28 Dec 2012 | 08:49 pm
Nowadays, companies and brands are wide open to criticism and comments from anyone with an Internet connection. With the dramatic rise of social media, there is no place to hide. Brands and companies ...
Website Transfer Guide – Common Pitfalls & Solutions 26 Nov 2012 | 01:39 am
A Different take on the normal “Website Transfer Guide” … Taking over, or inheriting responsibility for an existing website happens to any web designer or developer at some point. In theory, website t...
Opencart Theme Development – My Opinion 13 Oct 2012 | 11:26 pm
Opencart theme development, in it’s current state is flawed in my opinion. Opencart is a great platform for any type of ecommerce store, having a plethora of features for users and a low entry point f...
Just Search SEO Review 5 Aug 2012 | 06:24 pm
As a website developer, I come across of a lot of other website related companies when working on client sites. One such company is called http://www.justsearchseo.co.uk, who is performing SEO on a sm...
Validate Data within A Model using CodeIgniter and MY_Model 1 Aug 2012 | 04:45 am
CodeIgniter’s validation library is amazing out of the box and will save any developer an absolute ton of time. However, as CodeIgniter is an MVC framework it’s validation library does encourage data ...
Why Codeigniter Base Models Rock 24 Jul 2012 | 06:15 am
There are a plethora of reasons to use a good base model (also called CRUD Model, MY-Model) for all your CRUD operations in a CodeIgniter (or any) application. Amongst many, a base model will boostrap...
