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Project Honeypot

givemecake — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:42:10 +0000

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System Development with a Design Firm?

givemecake — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 04:39:05 +0000

Hands up those design firms that are taking in system projects as well. Hands up those who REALLY have a functioning Tech team! That’s lesser hands. Designing and implementing a website is not the same as developing a System. The process that starts the both are different. Yes, the designer and the developer both have to go [...]

Interesting Read

givemecake — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:53:56 +0000

http://highscalability.com/blog/2009/11/17/10-ebay-secrets-for-planet-wide-scaling.html bookmark

Paypal PDN Integration No shipping address for Credit Card Payment

givemecake — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:01:10 +0000

Default delivery address for Paypal Transactions is the Billing Address(which has to be the credit card holder’s address to prevent triggering fraud checks). Paypal allows user to specify another address when confirming the purchase. The website has already captured a shipping address on the checkout pages. The addresses captured and reflected in paypal’s system and [...]

Great Resources

givemecake — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:42:16 +0000

http://jeez.eu/2009/09/26/web-3-0-will-be-all-about-web-services-learn-the-basics/ http://jeez.eu/2009/11/23/using-apis-with-php-here-are-your-classes/ http://www.noupe.com/tools/fresh-web-development-goodies-bag-2.html http://ideone.com/ http://www.abtests.com/ http://www.bidsketch.com/tour/ – I gotta have it soon! bookmark

Notes for migrating Cakephp 1.2.0.5427 to 1.2.5

givemecake — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:09:08 +0000

Steps for migrating CakePHP to 1.2.5. Update Core CakePHP files Replace findByFieldName, findAllByFieldName with find(‘first’, $param) and find(‘all’, $param) findBy* methods are replaced with find($type, $param) $html->input replace with $form->input Form inputs comes in a new helper var $helpers = array(‘Html’, ‘Form’); Include FormHelper in $helpers bookmark

Making Apps Better

givemecake — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:35:51 +0000

http://www.forbes.com/2009/09/19/bill-curtis-enterprise-technology-cio-network-software.html?partner=relatedstoriesbox Besides outsourcing and developing in house, Software as a Service is another way to get better code quality. This approach is best used for smaller applications, which are standalone. But the problem of integrating with legacy systems still exist. This method would lower the cost of developing and maintenance by distributing it across more users. bookmark

Something Print Designers would be happy with…

givemecake — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:12:24 +0000

Baseline CSS http://baselinecss.com/grid.html Something designers working with frequently request is for the text to be aligned to the baseline. That is equal baseline for text even if they are in different DIV. These different DIV might have different padding or margins making them aligned to whatever other DIV needed. Will take the CSS library for a test drive [...]

Twittering soon

givemecake — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:14:53 +0000

Working on adding twitter to Give Me Cake. bookmark

Leading Zeros removed by Spreadsheet?

givemecake — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:05:48 +0000

Use =”000123″ when exporting zero padded numbers in CSV to prevent the leading zeros from being removed. Works in Excel and OpenOffice $csv->addField(‘=”‘.$student['Cda']['branch_code'].’”‘); bookmark