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  Using CakePHP’s Native Web Service Support

  11.29.06 | Permalink | 13 Comments

  Recently there was a posting on the CakePHP mailing list from someone complaining that CakePHP's native web service support didn't work, mainly because he couldn't figure out how to get it to work. So, I took up the challenge and sent out an email to the list showing that you can indeed use them. [...]

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  Adventures with jQuery

  11.24.06 | Permalink | Comments Off

  Man, I never realized that I could actually learn to enjoy Javascript. It looks just like PHP or even *gasp* Ruby code to me at times.
  For my current paid side project I've been using jQuery to do some cool transformational effects. On the page that shows the details for a villa, [...]

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  “Learning from Ruby on Rails” published

  11.22.06 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  My latest magazine article for php|architect magazine entitled "Learning from Ruby on Rails" was published today. You can think of it as a companion to my talk I gave at php|works back in September. One thing I will have to do is see how much of the article was edited. I worried [...]

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  Catfish Redux

  11.21.06 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  Well, the first version of the catfish didn't go well.? Lots of errors in IE and other flakiness.? Back to the drawing board and now we have a second version that shows some promise.? I went back to basics, grabbing the example from SitePoint because I was having a brain-disconnect on the other example that [...]

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  Mmmm…catfish in a browser

  11.17.06 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  No, I'm not talking about the delicious fish, I'm talking about The Catfish, a Javascript pop-up that sits at the bottom of the browser window and follows you as you scroll through the site.? The above-linked SitePoint uses the Catfish to show ads for their books (which I think are some of the best books [...]

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Facebook should've be written in unicornSchemaLang, because everyone *knows* that PHP is no good for anything, right?

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