11 November 2009
Working on sites very close to live is always tricky. Clients want to use the site unhindered, you want to check it through before it goes live. The one thing you don’t want happen is for the public to discover and access the site before it goes live.
The code below allows only grant access without [...]
17 February 2009
In the last few weeks I’ve had to interview for three new developer positions, going through the usual interview process.
Developers, Designers, Multimedia; All these roles demand a specialist knowledge. It’s not a job you can just walk in off the street and do. You will have worked to gain those skills that the company desire.
So [...]
15 January 2009
Today I came across an interesting problem. When using the recursive features of CakePHP to return a results tree it isn’t possible to refine the results by a condition on the related table when it is a one to many relationship. Take the follow example:
I have 4 tables:
User
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29 May 2008
Whilst writing several applications i have wanted needed to automate the process of resizing and cropping an image to fit, for example for sites which have catalogues.
After getting just a little bit more than bored of photoshopping 300+ images i decided to write my own function to automate the re-size. The function below will take [...]