Things tagged with Practices and Habits

• Using bitmasks to indicate status

  Oct 25 2008

  At some point or another we’ve all had to make a data model that involved various flags to indicate different statuses / modes for an object. Often the schema for such a data model may end up looking like

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• Code Completion for CakePHP in Eclipse

  Oct 04 2008

  Eclipse is widely popular, robust and powerful IDE. It supports PHP through the PDT project . PDT gives you some good PHP related development tools, including code completion & code templates to help you save some time.

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• Providing Contextual Form Help with Mootools

  Sep 25 2008

  I like many webdevelopers build a lot of forms. Forms are the bread and butter of web applications, and while making forms is getting easier for developers, users often still have a hard time with them. In these circumstances it is necessary to give them a help above and beyond ‘password’.

  • PHP, Javascript, CakePHP, MooTools, CSS, Web Design, Practices and Habits,
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• Creating gracefully degrading javascript and enabling progressive enhancement

  Sep 21 2008

  Creating gracefully degrading Javascript and CSS is pretty simple these days. I’m sure this has been written about a million times over as well. However, I thought it would be worthwhile to share how I do it as well. Mainly, because in addition to AJAX and effects I use Javascript as a way of enabling different CSS selectors for elements.

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• Github hooked up

  Sep 13 2008

  As I post more and more code here, I’m finding it tedious to update all the various .zip files of code as I make changes. So I’ve taken a page from Tim and Felix and made an account at gitHub. This makes it easy for me and you to find the newest revision of whatever you may be looking for.

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• Reducing requestAction() use in your CakePHP sites with fat models

  Aug 15 2008

  When bakers first start using CakePHP there is a tendency to use requestAction() more often than it should be. Often requestAction() gets used to pull in common elements like recent posts or new comments, or to make menus. This makes sense in a way as it keeps the comments code in the CommentsController and all is well.

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