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Hall Of Shame - YouTube and eBay for 3500

Why pay millions of dollars for YouTube when you could re-create the entire thing for $3500? (06/27/2008)

Drag and Drop Trees With CakePHP

CakePHP's TreeBehavior is quite useful, but wouldn't it be nice if we could save parent/child/sibling relationships in a nice drag & drop UI? (06/26/2008)

Public Pages - A Small CakePHP 1.2 AuthComponent Hack

If you want to only deny access to pages using the "admin" system, then this is a snippet of code you might find helpful. (05/22/2008)

May 1, 2008 Open Coffee

Open Coffee is a weekly meeting of entrepreneurs and business folks in the tech community. It's expanding membership is starting to cause some growth pains. (05/01/2008)

Hall Of Shame - Expert PHP Senior Developer

We don't just want an expert developer. Or even just a "senior." What we want is an expert senior! (04/28/2008)

Hall Of Shame - PHP MYSQL - Paid Internship!

I've decided to start posting some of the awful Craigslist (and elsewhere) advertisements that I see in the NYC region. In this example, the poster obviously has no idea what's involved in tying into APIs and customizing CMS backends. (04/23/2008)

Speeding Up SugarCRM Soap Requests

SugarCRM is an open source application commonly used by sales teams to manage accounts. By default, it's SOAP requests are miserably slow. (03/18/2008)

Know Thy Code

Do you suffer from "Just One More Compile" syndrome? (03/16/2008)

SVN Unadd

If you've added a directory and you didn't mean to, how do you unadd it? (02/19/2008)

Internet Access Filtering With OpenDNS

No installation required, it's free and easy to set up. (02/03/2008)

Getting Started With VIM and PHP

VIM is a powerful editor program that works well with any programming language on just about any machine. (12/13/2007)

Managing Multiple Versions of CakePHP on Linux

If you're developing several different applications with CakePHP, over time it's easy to run into issues with running different versions of CakePHP across your applications. What's the best way to organize everything? (11/15/2007)

Marketing for Geeks

How does a good developer stand out from the masses of bad developers? (11/10/2007)

Telecommuting Tips For Employers

How do you keep your telecommuting employees happy and productive? (11/07/2007)

nVidia Oddities Upgrading Ubuntu Fiesty To Gutsy

I ran into some issues with the nVidia proprietary driver, here's how I solved it. (10/24/2007)

Setting Up User Groups With ACL and Auth in CakePHP 1.2

CakePHP 1.2 is great, but documentation on ACL and Auth is somewhat sparse. This should get you started with understanding how the system works. (09/20/2007)

How To Setup VPN In Ubunty Edgy Eft

It took me hours to get this set up and I'm hoping to spare some other poor soul out there all the pain and torture I went through. This also works in Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04) (10/27/2006)

How To Format Forms With PEAR Html Quickform Renderer

PEAR's HTML_QuickForm is a nice OO way to create HTML forms on the fly. The only problem is that the generated forms are table-based. Here's how to generate more CSS-friendly code. (06/05/2006)

How To Schedule Regular MySQL Backups In Windows

Many web developers depend on that holy trifecta of PHP, MySQL, and Apache to develop their applications. Occasionally we are forced, whether due to work or convenience sake, to use Windows to host our applications. (04/11/2006)

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