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Resize images on the fly with CakePHP
Posted on June 1, 2010 | No CommentsWe’ve all been there: You have a website design. There are placeholders for galleries or thumbnails or what-have-you. Sweet as. You code, fire up the browser and - the images are all wrong! They are too large, your page looks awful, or you get sliders... -
Cake’s Security Component Timeout problem
Posted on May 26, 2010 | 1 CommentCakePHP’s security component is awesome. I use it all the time for its CSRF protection (Which will be the subject of a future post). But sometimes, it does not work as expected. Frustration ensues. In one of my projects, I have a form with a... -
Facelets: Setter not found for property class
Posted on May 15, 2010 | No Comments“Setter not found for property class” is one of the most frustrating errors you can get in a Seam / facelets project. It usually appears late, and you spend a long time trying to solve it. The solution is so simple you have to bang... -
How to submit a form with an image in CakePHP
Posted on May 11, 2010 | No CommentsCakePHP is in many ways an awesome framework. It does lots of things for you automagically, and makes development quite pleasant on most days. However, there are a few places where the framework displays irritating glitches. One of those unlucky places is when you want... -
The more you do – the more you do?
Posted on May 6, 2010 | No CommentsI am working on three projects at the same time. One of them is my paying job – a large bespoke development using JEE, Seam framework, Hibernate and a structured waterfall process that has gone all over the place as we’re nearing delivery to a... -
FullCalendar and CakePHP part 5 – Dragging and Resizing
Posted on April 27, 2010 | 3 CommentsIn the previous part of this series we saw how to edit fullCalendar events via CakePHP. In this post we’ll see how to let users resize or drag’n'drop an event displayed on the screen. -
Reverse Job Interview
Posted on April 21, 2010 | No CommentsOne of the techniques I use when interviewing people for a job is reverse-interview. The method is quite simple. The applicant walks in, you have a little chit-chat to break the ice, and then you reverse the role. Ask him to interview you for the... -
FullCalendar and CakePHP part 4 – Editing Events
Posted on April 15, 2010 | 2 CommentsIn the previous part of this series we saw how to add fullCalendar events via CakePHP to a MySQL events table. In this post I’ll focus on editing the events that Fullcalendar displays. To provide a complete calendar solution on your CakePHP website, you’d need... -
Use Gritter for Jquery (Growl) for flash in CakePHP
Posted on April 9, 2010 | 4 CommentsJordan Boesch has an excellent jQuery plugin for showing Growl-like messages in your web applications. This immediately seemed perfect for showing the flash messages on my CakePHP application, and Jordan even links to a blog post explaining how to integrate these together. This post is... -
A little bug in the Greyzed theme
Posted on April 2, 2010 | 10 CommentsI really like the greyzed wordpress theme, but there was a small bug that really got to me – the “newer posts” and “older posts” links were reversed. This was a bit irritating – but luckily it is easy enough to fix. If you are...
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FullCalendar and CakePHP part 3 – Adding Events
Posted on March 26, 2010 | No CommentsIn the previous part of this series we saw how to link fullCalendar via CakePHP to a MySQL events table. This is nice, but it’s only really useful if all the Create/Update and Delete actions on your events happen somewhere else. Obviously – you’ll want... -
FullCalendar and CakePHP part 2 – Create events source
Posted on March 19, 2010 | 4 CommentsIn the first part of this series we saw how to integrate fullCalendar and CakePHP so you can use the calendar in your Cake application. But obviously, a calendar is not very useful without events to show. In this part, we’ll see how to populate... -
FullCalendar and CakePHP part 1 – Set Up
Posted on March 11, 2010 | 41 CommentsI needed to integrate a calendar into my application. This being a CakePHP application, I started looking for a good calendar helper – but found none that I liked enough to integrate. Luckily, I then stumbled upon the excellent fullCalendar project which is everything I...