Is CakePHP worth it?
Snook.ca answers "CakePHP, is it worth it?" and provides a reasonable summary. He’s also joined the CakePHP documentation team, after having mentioned in previous posts the he felt it was "lacklustre". Hat tip: phpdeveloper.org.
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CakePHP impressions
As much fun as maintaining my own psuedo framework is, and hacking away on our own framework/CMS at work, I’ve decided its time to try out CakePHP, one of the many php frameworks out there, to update a website I built three-plus years ago for my dad. I chose CakePHP for a number of reasons,
Good mod_security overview
A good overview of the mod_security module for apache can be found at pathfinder. Mod_security is a good application firewall that can help protect and apache server from common application level attacks (sql injection, email header injeciton, cross-site scripting) by inspecting the payload of requests coming to the server. Its very useful in quickly putting
LAMP Server Tuning
The drupal site has a page on tuning server performance. While a few of the tips are specific to Drupal, the majority of them apply to anyone who’s using a LAMP server. Understanding LAMP performance. This LAMP performance study revealed that Apache is bandwidth limited, PHP is CPU limited, and MySQL is memory limited and
Google Calendar impressions
D’oh, I had a huge post about my further experiences with Google Calendar but my dog ate it because my session timed out (yes its a bug I should fix, but generally I dont’ write very long posts). The summary, I like Google Calendar. I imported my ics file from Mozilla Sunbird with only
Zawodny: IN Defense of Web Developers
Jeremy Zawodny steps up to the plate in defense of Web Developers, once again. Writing a good application no matter waht is going to be demanding, it’s just easier to roll something/anything out using php+javascript than with a "real" programming language. In effect, what I see is that php / javascript programming has a much
Using PHP and Subversion
Subversion is a great replacement for CVS and a very productive tool for managing code. I began using it last year to track my changes and apply them across my sites. The New Yorg PHP group has a really informative and extensive presentation on using SVN, from setting it up to practical tips for using
How to: Backup MySQL database & email results using BASH
The script below does the same and only depends on mutt (or another command line email client) being installed. A better solution would be not to email the file but to setup ssh key authentication on another server and use scp (secure copy) to send the file over. That way, your database file is transferred
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Howto: Gallery2 pics in sidebar
It is actually a bit of a story, and it began with upgrading my installation of gallery from version 1 to version 2. Gone in version 2, at the time, was syndication via rss of pictures. That’s originally how I had the pictures published to the right side of my blog. There’s an RSS plugin