If you’re new to CakePHP, Code Igniter, or MVC frameworks in general, then no doubt you’ve done some research already. In this post I’ll discuss a little about choosing the right framework, and I’ll avoid getting into a battle over which one’s a better framework. Truth is that both frameworks are great and offer a [...]

Smart Folders aren’t very bright. Sorting by date or name doesn’t help either. Using another program (or collection of programs) to better organize email threads and collections is wasteful, time consuming, and requires too much manual effort for the workflow.

A friend of mine recently started working on building a php calendar class. Sure, it’s been done before. About a trillion times. But he needed one and felt like exploring it anyway. I’m posting this as a reference to learn a bit more about correctly writing and styling html tables. A calendar is really just [...]

Here’s a quick tutorial going over how to get a simple tooltip working using the jQuery library and the Tooltip plugin. We’ll set up the help text to be displayed when a user mouses-over a question mark next to a form element.

Often designers won’t budge on allowing you to use text for primary navigation menus. In the past images were embedded directly into the HTML and awful javascript functions were used for displaying multiple states. Nowadays, though, you can use images and text to please designers and search engines by doing a bit of simple math [...]

This one’s a bit obvious, but it’s one of those that’s hidden and difficult to remember. I have my Finder set to always display file extensions. I’m a developer; I actually prefer to see my file extensions.

UPDATE: I’m using Journler now… it’s really doing the job for me. Check it out if you haven’t done so. About a year ago, I started looking at and using some PIM (Personal Information Management) applications. These things are great in that you can add notes, web pages, clippings, images, PDFs, and all sorts of [...]

In Finder you can select a bit of text, then drag it to the desktop. This creates a text clipping (.textClipping file). But when you reopen the text clipping, you can’t select and copy the text from the text clipping. Generally I’ll take a quick screen grab of what I’m trying to save (using Command [...]

I just got back from being at a bookstore in Clearwater, Florida called Borders. This bookstore is just like any other large bookstore, like Barnes and Noble or Books a Million and the like. I glanced through a few computer techy books, and as I was leaving, I noticed a real gem of vicinity marketing [...]

I find that I truly enjoy being fascinated with a particular topic or subject. It doesn’t necessarily matter what the subject is, and moreover, I find I can become fascinated with almost any topic. I don’t feel the need to master the subject; rather, maintaining an intrinsic fascination with something appeals more to me than [...]