At PlusGlobal, we started following the coworking movement long time ago. So much so, that we created Coworking Rosario, a website to incentivate te creation of coworking spaces in our town. In almost a year of activity we made several contacts with people interested in the subject and, slowly, we created a little community.

That’s why we are so excited about this project. It will be very interesting to see how Njambre evolves because it will concentrate people with different social, artistic, technical and business profiles.

I believe it’s important to pay attention to developers and programmers; sometimes they are leaved in a corner. In fact, I think we always should take a programmer to the meetings because they see something else; they are able to see The Matrix and know what’s possible to do and what not. As Pedro Panigazzi told us in a conversation “Programmers are the best at creativity, they are the people with the right idea about something if something is doable or not”. In general, when the programmers are included in the process from the very beginning, the final work is much better.

Words from Carlos Marchese and Lucio Monopolis, directors at Inima Interactive Agency, translated from an interview they gave to the podcast Biznexo.

First solution attempt

We can have several folders with the framework, one called cake with the current version (the one that will be used by our app) and some other folders with the previous versions, i.e. cake-1.2.5, cake-1.3.2, etc. So, each time you need to go back to a previous version, you just have to rename the folders.

This solution has its downsides

• To rename the directories is a manual task done outside the automated deployment process.
• The cake core is not a piece of code maintained by us and it’s usually left out of the app’s repository. Therefore, each time you modify the cake folder you have to let know the rest of the team so everybody work at the same conditions.
• We have to keep an eye on the .gitignore file in order to keep new versions of cake out of the version control repository.
• If someone makes a checkout of our app, he/she won’t find any information about the cake’s version needed to run the code.

Solution

We create the following folder structure

• app
• cakeversions
  • 1.2.5
    • cake
  • 1.3.2
    • cake

The cakeversion folder will contain every version of CakePHP that our app had needed at some time and it should be ignored by Git. The folders named cake inside each version folder are necessary because the framework requires that the core lays inside a directory called exactly cake.

The next step would be to edit the file app/webroot/index.php, so the app uses the new location. This line:

define('CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH', ROOT);

Sould be replaced by this one:

define('CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH', ROOT . DS . 'cakeversions' . DS . '1.3.6');

Now, whenever we need to change the version of cake, we only have to edit the number on this line. The file app/webroot/index.php is part of the Git repository, so the change of version will be implemented in production in the next deploy. Also, the rest of the team will have it updated in the next fetch or pull they perform.

The last couple of days we went to this event. It was a really good event, with top speakers and interesting contents.

We had ours doubts about “wasting” two days of work into this event, but we are really happy we did it. We met with friends and customers that we don’t see face to face very often and we met new nice people.

If you are a freelance or business owner and you don’t use to go to events because you don’t want to waste time, think again, maybe you are wasting good opportunities.

Checking twitter today I saw this

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Then I clicked the link and went to the site to download the book, but, for my surprise, they ask me to pay the download with a tweet. What? Yes, pay with a tweet!

www.paywithatweet.com is a service where you can release products for free (a video, ebook, mp3 file, WordPress theme…) but asking people to write something in twitter before getting the prize. You can configure the promotional message and when the user wants the content he or she is connected with the twitter API and the text is automatically posted into his account.

Users can decide if they want to pay with a tweet on Twitter or with a post on their Facebook wall.

• Go to Google Font Directory: http://code.google.com/webfonts
• Choose a typography to dowlonad, for example, Cantarell
• Click on the tab “Get the code”
• In the text: <link href=’http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Cantarell‘ rel=’stylesheet’ type=’text/css’> copy the URL inside the href, in this case it would be http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Cantarell
• Paste that URL in your browser and press ENTER
• When the page is loaded, you will see a CSS code, copy the URL from that code, in our example it would be http://themes.googleusercontent.com/font?kit=tGao7ZPoloMxQHxq-2oxNA
• Paste the copied URL in your browser and press ENTER
• Your browser will suggest you to download a file with ttf extension. Save it on your computer with the name Cantarell.ttf (or whatever you want).
• Open the folder C:\windows\fonts
• Open the menú File > Install font and then choose the Font file from its location
• Open your Photoshop and you should be able to use the font. If the typography is not available, restart Windows and try again.