http://www.zatechcorp.com zatechcorp development Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:41:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm rewriting Authware at the moment using CakePHP. I figured I had to learn something about MVC sometime, but here I am doing so -- and it isn't funny. http://www.zatechcorp.com/62/cakephp/ Back when I still had a print subscription to Linux Journal, I read an interview of David Hansson, creator of rails and thought, 'wow, this is cool!' My friend Kwame had a book on Ruby which I perused and found the language was relatively simple. Now for such a simple, amazing ... http://www.zatechcorp.com/61/ruby-on-rails/ Idemili's blog: a Blogger template. http://www.zatechcorp.com/60/idemili/ Another Wordpress project. I didn't do the design -- it was done by Cage Rattle. http://www.zatechcorp.com/58/ophir-milan/ Isn't there some way to disable this or move it further down in Firefox? Why does it have to be at the top? Everytime I righ-click a link, I intend to open it in a new tab. I hate new windows! The crazy context menu item just keeps getting in my ... http://www.zatechcorp.com/56/open-link-in-new-window/ This would have been one of the coolest additions to SQL. Programmers are lazy, always looking for a way to avoid writing more code and I suppose this is one area I fit the norm. I need to select all the fields from a 20-column table... except one. Doing a Google ... http://www.zatechcorp.com/55/select-except/ I've been tearing out my hair trying to figure out how to have persistent sessions on the client. Okay, I've done it before on several projects but those ones didn't use a database-based session handler. I've called session_set_cookie_params to no avail everywhere in my code -- the time in the db's ... http://www.zatechcorp.com/54/whats-with-php-sessions/ While running some tests on my local machine, I discovered a certain content item on Authware took between 2.5 and 2.9 seconds to load -- when nearly every other one got loaded in less than 0.7 seconds. There were some basic references to clone -- especially when determining the book ... http://www.zatechcorp.com/53/code-profiling/ When I first wrote Authware I needed a WYSIWYG editor. I wanted one written in PHP that was basically drag and drop. I couldn't find a basic TinyMCE-PHP implementation back then. FCKEditor (it's come a long way in the last two years) gave me a lot of bad code. By chance ... http://www.zatechcorp.com/52/spawedit/ I've getting some extra pocket change for a while now by picking up freelance jobs. So far, I've been most successful with Scriptlance. From an ethical viewpoint how do you respond to a [fishy] project that asks you to create 100 fake MySpace profiles or these ones that ask you to ... http://www.zatechcorp.com/47/ethical-freelancing/