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• CakeFest argentina approaches

  Nov 28 2008

  Cakefest 2 Argentina is quickly approaching. If you are sitting on the fence on going until the last minute then get off and come on down. Its going to be a good time with lots of great talks. I’ll even be there! I’m giving two talks one on Unit Testing and the other on plugin development. Hope to see you there.

  To find out more about Cakefest follow the link.

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• Making Testable Static classes

  Nov 21 2008

  If you’ve ever tried to subclass a PHP4 static class you may have come to same conclusion that I have its a total pain in the neck. However, I think I’ve come up with a not too terrible approach.

  • testing, Web Development, CakePHP, PHP,
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• Using bindModel to get to deep relations

  Nov 14 2008

  Often times you will need to query a distant table based on a condition on a close table. For example we have a store that has a table structure like the following:

  

  Now we want to find the Division that a particular Item belongs to. In normal SQL we could do

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• New home, new sideproject

  Nov 04 2008

  I’ve had quite the busy last little month or two. My wife and I have been house shopping for a while, and found a place about 2 months ago. However, just last weekend we moved into our new (to us at least) condo in west Toronto.

  The new sideproject is the CakePHP DebugKit . I’ve been hard at work building a ‘debug toolbar’ for CakePHP.

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