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Using MySQL Stored Procedures in Cakephp
I am new to this topic in many ways. For ages I have prefered to do the database work in Cakephp – or being honest, I have been afraid to touch MySQL, being that close to the data seemed like a stupid idea. Especially because I wasn’t bold enough to go playing with things.
From Tweet to Article
It may already be known, but I follow Lance Armstrong on twitter - I should say, I am 1 of the 293,587 people following him on twitter. Last week Mr. Armstrong wrote a '128 character' review of the Giro Time Trial stage : here. Whilst...
Creating and Destroying Associations on the Fly
Strange things happen at strange times. I guess otherwise they wouldn't be strange, but regular.For the past few days I have been playing mental games with a particular find() in CakePHP. Basically I wanted to be able to get ALL of some data (Category), and...
Cakephp : Form Options List Variable
So, it seems that cake is more awesome than me. And the Temporary hack I have below is over-ruled by cakephp. Thanks to Matt @ pseudocoder what I should have looked for is find $this->Model->('list') and it would bypass the 'foreach' loop. Excellent.The CakePHP WayMany...
The Free Version of Free
So I got a tweet today from someone I follow. He said that a The Cat Empire had released a new CD, and were offering a free song to download. I love free stuff, but when I got there it wasn't free at all. The...
Reformation of an Industry: Part 2
The previous article I wrote I finished to get something up by my pre-determined deadline. I had not finished the article, so I severed it and left it for the following week to continue my thoughts and hopefully to answer some questions.Obvious HurdlesReally what is...
Reformation of An Industry
I have been thinking quiet a bit about my last post - titled The Death on an Industry. I have been thinking of doing a new one and have hit many brick walls - usually when that happens it means i am meant to write...
CD Packaging. The death of an industry.
For a few years now many people have been touting the death of CD packaging. It is either the ultimate in sales words – Apple and their music store, or is from the mouth of music CEO‘s, who don’t know how to stay in business.
For those same years I have been hanging onto the thread of light that it was not true. I believed in my heart that the end of the CD, handheld packaging and getting a physical item would outway that of a digital download. I do believe in this economical based world, that this is declining…