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Vacature: (Cake)PHP Webdeveloper bij startup EduHub
Posted by primeminister | Filed under Other (tech) stuff
EduHub zoekt nog een webdeveloper! Leuke club in Amsterdam en aan de slag met CakePHP.
Weet jij nog iemand of zie je jezelf daar aan de slag gaan? Laat het Ruben weten en gebruik coupon code CAKETOPPER
Are you coming to the dutch CakePHP borrel?
Posted by primeminister | Filed under Cake-Toppings, Other (tech) stuff
Hi all,
Very excited to see all of you dutch (and belgian) bakers next tuesday! The food is ordered, the drinks are cold and the snow is falling. What else do we wish for?!
Spoken words:
Ruben (@rubzie) did announce already some presentations: http://www.singel146.nl/2010/01/cakephp-borrel-show-your-code-meetup/
I (@charli3) created a LinkedIn event. Let us know if you are planning to go: http://events.linkedin.com/Dutch-CakePHP-borrel/pub/193797
See you there!
Improved music site: Cloudspeakers.com
Posted by primeminister | Filed under Cake-Toppings, Other (tech) stuff, jQuery/javascript
One of the CakePHP projects I have is the site named Cloudspeakers.com. In the last three months we improved the website with new features, gave it a complete new layout and did a lot about the usability.
All is build on the latest stable CakePHP core 1.2 and jQuery 1.3
Read full press release here: http://bit.ly/4zUxj2
Mapping content over domains with Apache
Posted by primeminister | Filed under Cake-Toppings, Other (tech) stuff
Using ‘Dynamic Mirror‘ in Apache you can map content from one domain to another. This was useful for a customer who had two very old domains from 1993 and built-up a nice SEO ranking.
We have two domains a-domain.com and b-example.com. The last one has a new design and some different links and is an application built in CakePHP.
The other domain ‘a-domain.com’ had its purpose to serve the same content. (more…)
Happy New Year, Bakers!
Posted by primeminister | Filed under Other (tech) stuff
In advance… Happy New Year to all you bakers in the whole world!
Be carefull with the fireworks and keep an eye on that important fingers of you, because I want to see as many blog posts about Cake as this year, deal?
Cheers!
Book meme
Posted by primeminister | Filed under Other (tech) stuff
The blog of Mariano Iglesias pointed me to a little game that is interesting. The rules:
- Grab the nearest book.
- Open it to page 56.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
- Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
Here is my meme:
“You must make it very clear that this code is disposable, incomplete, and unable to be completed.”
The Pragmatic Programmer, Andrew Hunt & David Thomas
A couple of people did it already and it is fun to see what they picked and what sentence it is become when you remove it out of its context.
Checking query string with mod rewrite
Posted by primeminister | Filed under Other (tech) stuff
The latest project I had to rewrite old URLs to new URLs. These URLs have been on the internet since 1994 so for the search engines and ranking on those pages it was very important.
Many URLs had to be detected through there query string, their GET arguments. Here is an example:
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