http://myeasyscripts.com/loudbaking Specialty cuisines: app development, internet marketing and entrepreneurship Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:25:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thought I'd leave a note here for other that may encounter the same issue while trying to upgrade lately. I only got it on my Mac Pro but not on my Mac Mini nor Air. A networking error has occurred: Cannot open file (-3001). Make sure you can connect to the ... http://myeasyscripts.com/loudbaking/updating-macos-cannot-open-file-3001/ I passed by the Apple Store downtown yesterday, hoping to pick up 4GBs of RAMs for my Mac Pro. I guess it works the same in all their stores, I first had to chat with a 'janitor' so she can pair me with a 'genius'. Why? The first 'genius' assisting me, understood ... http://myeasyscripts.com/loudbaking/apple-overpriced-rams-idiot-geniuses/ While I was optimizing the database for the application I am currently developing, I thoroughly check the differences between these two types, VAR and VARCHAR, so might as well share my notes here. Keep in mind that these are for MySQL 5.0.3 and later, things were different in certain cases ... http://myeasyscripts.com/loudbaking/var-or-varchar-which-to-choose/ Have you ever tried using underscores (_) in your controllers variables that you are passing to the view using a combination of Controller::set() and compact()? Well, if you did, you must have realized that they never make it there, right? I haven't submitted it as a bug yet but here ... http://myeasyscripts.com/loudbaking/beware-of-the-underscore/ While I was away, I wasn't 100% on break... Among the work related stuff I've done was revamping my whole dev environment, hardware as well as software. For a little over a decade now, I have been a Windows user. In the early days, it was because Mac was just too ... http://myeasyscripts.com/loudbaking/my-current-development-environment-suggestions/ Hi everyone, I know my posts have been few and far between over the last several months, that's because I never really felt like getting back to work since I started my break in mid-December '07. Who would like to get back to work, right? I have to admit, it felt ... http://myeasyscripts.com/loudbaking/summers-over-and-so-is-my-break/ Early this week, I finally went and purchased Leopard to upgrade my Mac Mini and start running the same MacOS version on all computers I use. Everything was going good until the automated system reboot. Somehow, on the login prompt, my root access wasn't being authorized anymore. A simple search quickly revealed I wasn't the ... http://myeasyscripts.com/loudbaking/hack-into-any-macos-x/ Wow - my last post was on December 6th, over 5 months ago! Having to write after all this time makes me feel like it was the first post ever... Where to start? Nowhere. I can see that things have been moving pretty quickly in the CakePHP world: CakePHP 1.2 Beta, ... http://myeasyscripts.com/loudbaking/back-from-a-long-break/ Ok, ok - I've been slacking on this blog again, but I will keep that for another post where I will announce some major changes I have been thinking of lately. For today, I'd like to introduce the new DBO Source Driver: HtmlSource - which is completely functional but still ... http://myeasyscripts.com/loudbaking/htmlsource-a-new-dbo-driver-for-cakephp/ For the ones of you who have not opted to receive the PHP announcements from the php.net site, here's an important one you shouldn't miss if you are using the 5.2.x branch. From the PHP team: over 60 bug fixes, several of which are security related Some of the vulnerabilities are: ... http://myeasyscripts.com/loudbaking/php-releases-525-to-fix-multiple-vulnerabilities/