Archive for the ‘Code’ 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 [...]