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If you are new to Ruby on Rails and looking a great resource to get you making your first application the correct way, I would recommend  Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example. This book comes in three formats:  HTML, PDF, and video/screencast.  I personally bought the PDF/screencast combo.  The screencasts have some additional [...]

Great content from railscasts.com Beginning with Cucumber Cucumber is a high-level testing framework. In this episode we will create a new Rails application from scratch using behavior driven development. via Railscasts – Beginning with Cucumber. Webrat If you prefer writing integration tests in ruby instead of Cucumber's plain english, consider interacting with Webrat directly as I [...]

Very nice plugin for cakePHP for uploading files with great documentation.  Got it running with minimal effort.  Would recommend. An all around general purpose file uploader for CakePHP. Packaged as a stand alone plugin with file validation, file scanning and support for a wide range of basic mime types. Class Features: * Automatically sets all [...]

A nice blog post from dsi.vozibrale.com on how to create a CakePHP behavior.  This helps build on some of the missing points in the CakePHP manual.  This post include also includes good references. Simple hitcount behavior for CakePHP Posted in CakePHP on 07.04.2008. While developing Neutrino, I’ve decided to implement a simple hitcount behavior. So [...]

Nice entry on how to get HABTM tests to work in CakePHP 1.2. Test Fixtures for CakePHP Has-and-Belongs-to-Many Relationships CakePHP, a popular MVC framework in/for PHP, offers a pretty easy-to-use object-relational mapper, as well as fairly straightforward fixture class for test data. Consequently, it’s fairly easy to get into test-driven development with CakePHP, though this [...]

      Helpful and concise tutorial on using GIMP to design rounded buttons.   For last few day had been doing some designing. Had to make some buttons, so here is a tutorial for making a rounded cornered shiny button. And of course using GIMP   via Nothing To Lose | Little Shiny Blue [...]

Create a web 2.0 badge in The Gimp In this tutorial I will show you how to design a web 2.0 badge in the Gimp. These type of badges have made their place in the web 2.0 design as a great graphic to have on your website for all sorts of options such as subscribing [...]

Random Rows in MySQL I have to admit that I had quite some trouble figuring out how I could get MySQL to return some random rows in a query. It was something I had to figure out for myself when I wanted to get a list of random websites off GIDTopsites™ to place on these [...]

foreach PHP 4 introduced a foreach construct, much like Perl and some other languages. This simply gives an easy way to iterate over arrays. foreach works only on arrays, and will issue an error when you try to use it on a variable with a different data type or an uninitialized variable. There are two [...]

WordPress › WordPress Themes. A good list of WordPress Themes.  Not sure if these are useful if you are on wordpress.com. Installing wordpress on your hosted server is quite easy with this handy guide.