Archive for the ‘Development’ Category

 

Mobile CakePHP Apps Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

It feels like an age ago that I wrote a component and helper for CakePHP that could mobilize an app. Since then, things in the WAPL and Wapple world have moved on at a rate of knots and it’s time to re-write, re-factor and re-engineer the mobile cake code to keep it up to date.

 

WordPress on Load Balanced Servers Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

Picture the scene, you’ve had a great idea for a blog and have decided to use WordPress as your blogging software of choice. And as you’re going to be getting an insane amount of visitors (after all, you’ve got a great idea, right?) you’ve decided to buy some decent hardware to cope with the traffic.

 

When is a bug not a bug? Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

I used to work with someone who said that most bugs in software didn’t exist. His reckoning was down to the fact that most specifications for functionality aren’t tight enough. For example, if the spec for an adding function was to add two numbers together, adding 5 and 9 together and returning a value of [...]

 

REST or SOAP? Or don’t care? Monday, August 17th, 2009

I think we’ve realised at Wapple that when it comes to web services, not everyone always has the same level of technology that we have at our finger tips and completely take for granted. Take my Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin for WordPress for example, and the way it used to communicate with Wapple’s web services. [...]

 

Clouds.. thousands of em.. Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

Not so long ago, the Wapple website had clouds. Unfortuntely, the powers that be decided that the new version didn’t need them, so rather than sulk about it (ok I did sulk a bit) I’ve turned those hand crafted cumulo nimbii into a WordPress plugin!