by Phil Morle | Dec 5, 2012 | Code, Uncategorized
Security is and always will be an important topic, especially in the computer world. I’ve outlined and explained some of the basic and most common forms of exploiting and what you should be keeping in mind. Thinking outside the box Using an application in a way...
by Phil Morle | Sep 18, 2012 | Code, Tools and Templates, Uncategorized
Throughout my time as a designer I have been constantly surprised by the fact that there is a better way to do something that I had been doing for years. These things can be small like a keyboard shortcut that might save you a second or two but in the course of a few...
by Phil Morle | Aug 20, 2012 | Code
The idea of a queuing service is to offload something that’s potentially resource intensive and takes time to process. Moving a piece of a logic that would originally be executed at visitor run time could potentially speed up the users experience, this alone...
by Phil Morle | Jun 25, 2012 | Code
Criteria Criteria Description Start Must be painlessly quick and simple to get started. Ideally, it should take less than five minutes to have the latest version of CakePHP up-and-running with a MySQL database. Configure Environments must be easily configurable. For...
by Phil Morle | Jun 22, 2012 | Code
Here at the Hive anyone can host an informal workshop, known as a brown bag, to share learning’s which the team would benefit from or find interesting. This week I shared my experience about the Migrations Plugin for CakePHP. During GovHack 2012, we had three...
by Phil Morle | May 21, 2012 | Code
Depending on the audience, I may describe myself as one of the following: engineer, developer, programmer or coder. Anyone who wears the above hats will wrangle with instructions that a computer somewhere will know what to do with. These instructions, represented in...
by Phil Morle | May 14, 2012 | Code
JavaScript (JS) is a popular scripting language that becomes very useful when enhancing a website, an entire website shouldn’t rely totally on JS due to the following: Structure can become lost and the site may be harder to maintain. Separation between HTML and...
by Phil Morle | Apr 30, 2012 | Code
Educational Cake This month the Engineers at Pollenizer sat together through an online CakePHP training program. It was a good opportunity to gauge what the CakePHP community consider advanced and to explore familiar topics from another Engineer’s perspective. Here...
by Phil Morle | Apr 23, 2012 | Code
The recent release of PHP 5.4 includes a new feature called Traits. It enables method injection into classes and the concept will be familiar to anyone who has experience with Ruby’s mixins or traits in Scala. CakePHP’s ‘Model Behaviour’...
by Phil Morle | Apr 16, 2012 | Code
It’s easy to label something as terrible if you’ve had a bad first impression. Before you do label the CMS/Technology with the sh*t sticker you should have some sort of idea on how it works and how to use it. Drupal is a CMS backed by a strong community...
by Phil Morle | Apr 10, 2012 | Code
A common problem the engineering team is experiencing at Pollenizer is finding the resources to dedicate to system administration duties. With the vision of reducing those duties, Pollenizer has been exploring PaaS providers. I have reviewed services offered by...
by Phil Morle | Feb 27, 2012 | Code
Overview Web applications typically require very specific server environments in which to run. Most of us build applications from a variety of disparate components at different layers of abstraction. (We do not, for example, re-implement an operating system every time...
