I can remember the day well. I was in fourth grade and my art teacher had mentioned to my parents that she thought I might be colorblind. My mom walked me down Pine Street in Rolla, Missouri and into an eye doctor's office. Shortly thereafter, I was looking at a small book with white pages and groups of colored circles. Some of the pages held numbers hidden in the colored circles, some didn't.

Little did I know how much that day would become the start of a long and interesting journey down the path of being categorized as color bind. I've looked around the internet and nobody [Read More]

Leandro Pinho wrote a great jQuery lightbox plugin. I have made a slight modification to it to restrict the navigation, Next and Prev links, from the lightbox.

Downloads: jquery.lightbox-0.6.js

My brother-in-law and his rocket sled Z06 Corvette drug my family hauler to the Rockingham, NC dragway yesterday to see what type of times the HEMI could [Read More]

Another issue I ran into after reinstalling NuSphere PhpEd was that when configuring SFTP connections for uploading files. The standard permissions level for uploaded files via an SFTP connection is 0750 and 0640 for folders.

I spent 30 minutes trying to determine why CakePHP was throwing Come to find out, it was all because of the default permissions settings for uploaded files on a SFTP connection in NuSphere PhpEd.

I recently noticed that when I upgraded Vista from 32bit to 64bit, I must have chosen to install the 64bit version on a second hard drive. Unfortunately, Windows felt it was necessary to leave system files on the first drive, effectively tieing up both drives. I wanted to pull one of the drive to expand the storage in my Windows Home Server.

After reinstalling a new version of Vista on a single drive, I started reinstalling all my applications. One of the applications that gave me an issue was NuSphere's PhpEd. After configuring a project to use an ftp connection to sync [Read More]

If you've ever had debugging statements decimate a layout, then you need FirePHP. Like its brother-in-arms FireBug, FirePHP is a Firefox Add-on designed to help PHP developers cleanly debug code. FirePHP can also me used to debug CakePHP applications with only a few additional lines of code.

1. First, download and install the FirePHP add-on for Firefox.
2. Then download the FirePHPCore package. Extract FirePHP.class.php to '/app/vendors/FirePHP'.
3. Now [Read More]
   

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If you've seen or heard the news today, I'm sure you heard that Sarah Palin failed follow state and federal proceedures by using gov.palin@yahoo.com. Sure it's not a major thing for a governor of Alaska to do, but she has higher asperations.

I'd like to hear her reasoning to the sys admin that runs the government email server as to why she failed to use the government servers to send email.

The alledged [Read More]

As a developer, I am always cautious about allowing a framework to automagically do things for me. When I was a web developer at Sporting News, our development staff spent a lot of time analysing different PHP frameworks and open source CMS packages. We were searching for a starting point, whether it was a framework or a CMS, upon which we planned on building the latest version of www.sportingnews.com.

After we settled on CakePHP, we knew out of the gate that it came with some things that we wouldn't be able to tolerate. The initial [Read More]