I’ve been fighting with my new laptop for a couple weeks, trying to get the wireless networking to perform at anything resembling a reasonable speed. Wired networking has been fine the entire time. I’ve applied every fix I could think of, and that I could find on Google. Today, while reading my livejournal friends page, [...]

Got some CakePHP models with deep associations that you need to pull into the data that you display when you paginate them? This used to be a royal pain in the butt, and pretty much required custom pagination, but no more! Behold: $this->paginate = array( ‘Customer’ => array( ‘contain’ => array( ‘Order(id)’, ‘Order.AccessCode(id)’, ‘ShippingAddress(city,state)’ ) [...]

I just finished tracking down a bug that I’ve been working on for nearly two days, and it turns out to have been something VERY simple. The basic problem was that while a long running CakePHP request was running, the rest of the Cake app was non-responsive. This is because of a ‘feature’ of PHP. [...]

This anthology consists of science fiction (and a few fantasy) short stories, that the editors read when they were young, that they felt left a strong impression on them. They stories selected are chosen more for the authors that wrote them in many cases, than for the specific story itself. But this is not necessarily [...]

I’ve been listening to Death By Cliche for a few weeks now, and greatly enjoying it. It’s a fun podcast novel by Bob Defendi, and you can listen to it yourself at PlayTesting.net for free. Overall, it is a very amusing and engaging story, especially if you have ever played D&D, but is accessible enough [...]