If you’re looking for documentation on WordPress MU; discussion about usability, design and layout of webpages and blogs; how-to’s and practical examples working with CakePHP or discussions about tank-raised crustaceans, you’ve come to the right place! My name is Tom Belknap and this is my site for all things LAMP and anything else I can’t fit on one of my other pages. Please consider adding my RSS feed to your favourite reader to keep updated on the discussions on this site.
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I am still having a hard time wrapping my brain around it, but FaceBook is making the announcement all over application pages that soon, FB applications will no longer be able to send you notifications through FB. You'll have to give them your email address instead.
What?
The thing about FaceBook which I've been most enamored of has always been that it is an entirely separate form of communication from email. I've loved the fact that I'm able to keep up with
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I think that there is a natural and inevitable tension in web design between the designer's desire to control how information looks and the constraints of browser vagaries and inconsistencies. Those of us who have been designers for a while already know the story: browsers built with flexibility and error-correction in mind created a web world where even playing by the rules doesn't always mean getting what you want from your design out of all browsers. The solution in many
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It is invariable that, when working with a platform or API or framework written by someone else, you find that things which seem simple enough and obvious enough just don't actually exist in that chosen system. Relatively straightforward tasks sometimes slip right through - or else are agreed to be unnecessary - but for your purposes, they are vital. In such a case, generally that is what WordPress allows custom plugins and themes for. Still, as a plugin developer, I've
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Another post in my Development Walk-Through Series, following me through the development of my own application to share my thoughts and observations. Please consider subscribing to my feed if you find this information helpful.
Now that you're working on your Models in Phase Two of your development process, you have a second opportunity to trim up your database. Once you start putting together CakePHP queries, it quickly becomes obvious that
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