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Archive for May, 2008
Webmaster tools I can’t live without
Designing and building a website is one thing, but maintaining the site is definately something else. I’ve met many website owners who thought that getting someone in to build up a website and turn it on is all there is to running a website.
What a hard lesson that was for them when it turns [...]
In: Website Building/SEO · Tagged with: tools, webmasters, website
CakePHP: Using scaffolding for rapid application building
That’s right, I’m still on my CakePHP journey. I’ve been spending quite a bit of time now trying to match what I want to build with how to go about doing it in CakePHP. We all know that the blog example is pretty simplistic – a real world app won’t be quite so straightforward. At [...]
In: PHP Tutorials · Tagged with: cakephp, tutorial
To interoperate or not?
Later this week I’ll be attending a talk on interoperability, organised by Microsoft. A friend of mine working at the local Microsoft office is organising the event. He was asking me to help spread the word about the event.
We got talking and from what he tells me about his job as an ‘Evangelist’, I [...]
In: News · Tagged with: Microsoft, PHP
CakePHP: Working with ‘Associations’
This is probably going to be the first of many postings of my exploration with CakePHP. This post will briefly look at the CakePHP’s ‘Associations’ feature. Associations is “the relational mapping provided by the [CakePHP] model”.
In non-Cake speak, we’re talking about standard SQL joins – the mapping of relations between SQL tables. As you may [...]
In: PHP Tutorials · Tagged with: cakephp, tutorial
PHP or .NET? Help me to choose!
We’ve all encountered it before, and we’ve all asked this question in one way or another. I see it appearing in Yahoo Answers every now and then, and I see similar platform comparison in blogs I read. Its clear this issue is still quite relevant today and will continue to be tomorrow.
So which is better? [...]
In: PHP Tutorials · Tagged with: Microsoft, PHP
First look at CakePHP
Finally, I found some time to take CakePHP for a spin. I’ve heard some really good things about it, and I’ve been trying to get some time to try it out. I installed the framework and went through the tutorial on building a simple blog application. I have to say I’m quite impressed.
In: PHP Tutorials · Tagged with: cakephp, PHP