Archive for June, 2008

CakePHP: Baking in frustration

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

CakePHP Frustration Sometime back, I posted about my first experience with CakePHP. I installed the framework and went through the tutorial on building a simple blog application, and said “I was quite impressed”.

Now, after 3+ development weeks trying to build a real-world application, I think, maybe I was too hasty to draw that conclusion.

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A look at the Google Graph class

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

In my previous post about creating simple graphs using Google Charts API, I mentioned about a PHP class, called Google Graph, which Ryon Sherman wrote that encapsulates this API, making it easier to code in PHP.

I incorporated this class in my CakePHP project, and found that there were a couple of problems with it.

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