http://www.justkez.com Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:31:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ramaze is an extraordinarily powerful yet fast web framework for Ruby. I have entirely switched over any web development I do to be in Ramaze, having previously been committed to CakePHP. There can be a bit of confusion over partial rendering in Ramaze. I will tactically employ the use of a ... http://www.justkez.com/partial-rendering-in-ramaze/ Sequel is a pretty nifty database toolkit for Ruby. I have been using it lately in combination with Ramaze - an incredibly fast and powerful web framework (also for Ruby). Sequel has perfect documentation in terms of an API, and the cheatsheet and readme give a good summary of how to ... http://www.justkez.com/validating-data-with-sequel/ We launched Freezy on Wednesday afternoon. In summary, it's a site that allows you to advertise and pick up stuff for free. The idea is for people clearing out their houses to be able to list stuff they don't need anymore - things that aren't worth selling, or are unwanted ... http://www.justkez.com/freezy-opens/ There are numerous posts that are floating around the blogosphere and forums on getting MySQL working on Leopard (as in "cannot connect through /tmp/mysql). Some of them seem to be a bit over a top, and the solution I found (which may exist elsewhere) is quick and easy. Open /etc/my.cnf as ... http://www.justkez.com/really-getting-mysql-to-work-on-leopard/ I have just spent too long trying to discover why a controller throws a "Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by..." error message. There's no obvious reason why, and no obvious fix. The controller works fine on another installation of Apache2 and PHP, but not on my machine ... http://www.justkez.com/cakephp-cannot-modify-header-information/ It has taken a me a long time to finally get this neat Visual Studio trick working. Despite it being a very powerful addition to the development and debugging process, there doesn't seem to be much information about it, apart from the small entry on MSDN discussing the preprocessor. To perform ... http://www.justkez.com/conditional-debug-statements-in-visual-studio/ An excellent and very readable piece on validating file uploads from within a CakePHP model. Provides the basic outline for how to handle the upload, as well as the more technical nitty gritty from within the model. http://www.justkez.com/cakephp-validating-file-uploads/ There are several good user authentication/registration/login systems available for CakePHP (especially version 1.2), but I decided to roll my own. This offers a good learning exercise, in addition to the benefit of knowing where all your code is and what it's doing. The latest little addition I've made to the code ... http://www.justkez.com/cakephp-courteous-redirection-after-user-login/ The folks over at Soul Solutions published an article (Encoding for performance, Soul Solutions) outlining the steps for implementing an "Encoded Polyline Algorithm Format" (Encoded Polyline Algorithm Format, Google) - an algorithm for reducing the data overheads when sending long lists of coordinates over a network. I have been aware of this ... http://www.justkez.com/encoding-coordinates-for-efficiency/ This is an updated version of "CakePHP Livesearch" - published here in 2006. That version was designed for CakePHP 1.1, whilst this is a more polished and modern solution for CakePHP 1.2. The two tutorials are not compatible with each other due to changes in the framework. It is recommended ... http://www.justkez.com/cakephp-livesearch/