Converting Comments to Disqus
Date: Tue, Jan 31st 2012, 22:52 Author: nick share
Due to all the spam I've archived the current comment system and am starting to use disqus. There are a few good reasons for this. One, I can now easily monitor and approve comments. Two, you can subscribe to just the blog comments you want, and you don't have to post to subscribe to the blog comments. Three, you can actually use your favorit...
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CakePHP 2.0 + Nginx + PHP-CGI + phpMyAdmin on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
Date: Mon, Nov 7th 2011, 15:34 Author: nick share
Setup CakePHP 2.0 nginx + php-cgi + mysql + phpmyadmin on OS X Lion
My company just bought me a new macbook and while it shouldn't have taken me as long as it did to setup my development environment for CakePHP, there were a few gotchas that I thought maybe you could learn from my mistake or perhaps correct my wrongs. So without futher adue,...
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My company just bought me a new macbook and while it shouldn't have taken me as long as it did to setup my development environment for CakePHP, there were a few gotchas that I thought maybe you could learn from my mistake or perhaps correct my wrongs. So without futher adue,...
CakePHP 2.0 Facebook Plugin [BETA]
Date: Sat, Nov 5th 2011, 23:17 Author: nick share
With the help of stefan-zh https://github.com/stefan-zh I've released a beta version of the Facebook Plugin for CakePHP 2.0. This version utilizes the latest version of FacebookSDK and is lightly tested. It's currently in its own branch. Once I've updated all my apps to 2.0 and have thoroughly tested this version I will then kick the master b...
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CakePHP Facebook Plugin -- v3.0 OAuth and Registration
Date: Mon, Aug 15th 2011, 12:40 Author: nick share
UPDATE 3
This update is now complete, all changes have been merged into master and you should update your plugins accordingly. The newest version is v3.1.1. Thank you all for your patience and continued support of the plugin.
UPDATE 2
I've forced the master branch of the plugin to be version v2.5.0 (the stable version). You can simp...
CakePHP Database Logger Plugin
Date: Sat, Aug 13th 2011, 15:02 Author: nick share
It's been a while since I've posted, I've been doing a lot of work on various fun projects and just haven't had the time to formally post about all the cool things I've been doing. I figured with a new plugin deserves a new blog post. So, here I am -- lets talk log files and how they suck.
Log files can be...
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Log files.. more like lame files
Log files can be...
CakePHP Facebook Screencast
Date: Thu, Jan 13th 2011, 14:47 Author: nick share
I've recently made and submitted a screencast to http://tv.cakephp.org on how to integrate Facebook into your CakePHP application.
http://tv.cakephp.org/video/webtechnick/2011/01/12/nick_baker_--_facebook_integration_with_cakephp
Integrating Facebook into your CakePHP application. Complete step by step from bake, Facebook application ...
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http://tv.cakephp.org/video/webtechnick/2011/01/12/nick_baker_--_facebook_integration_with_cakephp
Integrating Facebook into your CakePHP application. Complete step by step from bake, Facebook application ...
CakePHP Search Engine Optimization Plugin
Date: Mon, Jan 3rd 2011, 13:12 Author: nick share
The Goal
I've been working on a few tools to help my good friend Doug Lay, an SEO expert, to optimize a CakePHP based application for search engines. I had two goals when developing this plugin
1) An Easy, yet powerful, 301 redirecting tool complete with regular expression support and model callbacks to find correct slugs uris.
2) Dynami...
Facebook Plugin v2.0 -- Graph System!
Date: Mon, Jul 19th 2010, 02:20 Author: nick share
CakePHP Facebook Plugin v2.0 is here! With the help from Theaxiom (https://github.com/theaxiom) the popular CakePHP Facebook plugin is now updated to the newest PHP SDK which features among other things full access to the much anticipated Facebook Graph System.
Along with access to the new SDK, I've implemented some great new f...
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New Features
Along with access to the new SDK, I've implemented some great new f...
HABTM Search By Multiple Tags in CakePHP
Date: Sun, Jul 11th 2010, 15:53 Author: nick share
The Problem
A client came to me with an interesting request. They wanted the ability to search a songs database based on tags that defined that song. A similar problem would be faced with a real estate portal trying to search properties that have specific amenities, or posts with certain tags, etc.. etc...
The concept is fairly simple, b...
File Upload Plugin v6.0 Security Released
Date: Wed, Jun 2nd 2010, 16:49 Author: nick share
What's new in 6.0
FileUploadPlugin v6.0 is a security release rather than a features release. There are two major changes that you should be aware of.
First, a bug fix -- if a fileNameCallback function returns false the upload will be halted as documented.
Second, I've changed the way the plugin validates a file being uploaded. Previ...
