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• Chris' Brain

  When Do You Take Your Ball And Go Home?

  08.28.07 | Permalink | 25 Comments

  As someone who has used lots of open source software, in fact making my livelihood off of open source software, I’ve often wondered what happens when the guiding forces behind an open source project decide to make that project closed source? Under what circumstances is that even possible. I’m the lead developer for my simulation [...]

• CakePHP, Chris' Brain

  Trusting Magic Methods

  08.21.07 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  One of the reasons I use CakePHP (well, other than the fact I get paid to ) is that I'm a believer in full-stack frameworks, and learning to build your application within the rules that the framework lays down is an exercise in understanding the problem domain and then figuring out how to solve it [...]

• CakePHP, Chris' Brain

  CakePHP Resources

  08.17.07 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  As my friends find out that I work for Cake Development Corporation, they start asking me what resources I use in order to get my work done. Since I don't have any essays to share, or tutorials for you this week, I'd thought I'd spend some time sharing some of my favorite resources. The CakePHP [...]

• Chris' Brain, PHP

  Extraction vs. Design

  08.14.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  For those not familiar with the history of the Ruby on Rails framework, it's interesting (well, at least to me) to note that the framework grew from extractions from working on Basecamp, an online project management / collaboration tool. Basically, they took functionality from Basecamp (the "extraction") and used it as components for Ruby on [...]

• CakePHP, PHP

  Stupid CakePHP Controller Tricks

  08.07.07 | Permalink | 14 Comments

  A big shout-out to my favourite typist for showing me some of these gems, which I will gladly share with you So, one of the things that often happens in CakePHP is that you will have multiple values to send to your view, so you might have code that looks like this: PLAIN TEXT PHP: [...]

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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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