Jose Diaz-Gonzalez

Full Stack CakePHP Deployment With Chef and Capistrano - Part 3

2012-01-17T00:00:00-05:00

This text is the third in a long series to correct an extremely disastrous talk at CakeFest 2011. It

Full Stack CakePHP Deployment With Chef and Capistrano - Part 2

2011-10-26T00:00:00-04:00

This text is the second in a long series to correct an extremely disastrous talk at CakeFest 2011. It

Full Stack CakePHP Deployment With Chef and Capistrano - Part 1

2011-10-03T00:00:00-04:00

This text is the first in a long series to correct an extremely disastrous talk at CakeFest 2011.

A CakePHP Book I can finally recommend

2011-06-19T00:00:00-04:00

Note: This post was created a few weeks ago and in my idiocy I forgot to publish it. I

The Daily Dev Log - 5

2011-06-11T00:00:00-04:00

Last night, someone came into the #cakephp irc room on freenode, attempting to place static html files in the app/webroot

Daily Dev Log - 4

2011-06-02T00:00:00-04:00

On the subject of updating urls in a web framework that gives you access to a router, it's important to

The Daily Dev Log 3

2011-05-27T00:00:00-04:00

For those that didn't know, you can specify a custom join in CakePHP by doing the following:

The Daily Dev Log 2

2011-05-25T00:00:00-04:00

When using the EmailComponent in CakePHP, the host should always include the protocol. In the case of accessing GMail's smtp

The Daily Dev Log - 1

2011-05-24T00:00:00-04:00

I spent around 7 hours putzing with History.js in cake_admin. History.js is a Javascript library-agnostic wrapper around the

Using CakeAdmin to generate backend applications

2011-05-17T00:00:00-04:00

CakeAdmin is a CakePHP 1.3 plugin for building web application backends quickly and easily. It is most analogous to

My development setup

2011-04-13T00:00:00-04:00

For the purposes of archiving how I like to develop, I'll chronicle a few things here.

As far as base

A Standard Readme for your CakePHP Plugins

2011-04-05T00:00:00-04:00

I just noticed that a lot of people have trouble filling out a readme, so I came up with one

Carl Sutton of Infinitas CMS

2011-03-27T00:00:00-04:00

I'd like to take a few posts to highlight those non-CakeDC and non-Core developers I feel have done a major

Embedding Custom Finds in Behaviors

2010-12-01T00:00:00-05:00

Today, while outlining a datasource for a CDN, I REALLY needed to add a custom model find from outside of

Fahad Ibnay Heylaal, creator of Croogo CMS

2010-10-30T00:00:00-04:00

I'd like to take a few posts to highlight those non-CakeDC and non-Core developers I feel have done a major

Using loadModel() in the Model

2010-10-05T00:00:00-04:00

In IRC, a frequently asked question is how to use unrelated models in both controllers and models.

The standard answer

Ruby on Rails Web Developer positions available in Chicago, NYC, San Francisco

2010-09-23T00:00:00-04:00

Clearly this person doesn't even know what I do. Also, grammar matters?

Are you or anyone you know interested

Why CakePHP documentation sucks and what I'm doing about it

2010-09-13T00:00:00-04:00

The CakePHP documentation sucks. By sucks I mean dumbasses are unable to read/use/search it. Which translates into more support in

Changes

2010-09-06T00:00:00-04:00

For anyone wondering why I was such an ass at CakeFest, don't worry, life comes crashing down around me otherwise.

Cakefest Conference Notes

2010-09-04T00:00:00-04:00

Talk slideshows:

Day 1

Graham Weldon's (@Predominant) Re-imagining CakePHP (Blog)
Pierre Martin's (@pierremartin) Using

CakePHP Plugins - A Biblical Retelling

2010-08-16T00:00:00-04:00

I'm just going to list a few plugins I use and abuse on a daily basis, as well as things

What it means to be a resource

2010-07-28T00:00:00-04:00

Feel free to skip this post, I just need to get some thoughts out there.

More than a year ago

Things to install or update on my mac when first installing

2010-02-10T00:00:00-05:00

When I install, make the user jose, NOT some pseudonym. Will help later when ssh'ing into a box...

Also, restore

Drop-down select fields in CakePHP

2010-02-09T00:00:00-05:00

For anyone wishing to make dropdown select fields in CakePHP forms happen automagically, here are some facts.

Name your

Your username/password should never be a lastname/uid

2010-02-05T00:00:00-05:00

I'm developing an application where the client wants the username and password combination to be a lastname and member ID

You want access? Well you no can has! - A CakePHP AccessComponent

2010-01-11T00:00:00-05:00

My latest side-project is an app for managing file uploads - you might even be able to guess what it

Clean up your Model data with Purifiable Behavior

2010-01-10T00:00:00-05:00

Someone on #cakephp had an issue with PHP timing out. Normally, I'd say it was just bad coding, but it's

How to Grow or A Look Back at 2009

2010-01-09T00:00:00-05:00

I'd like to start out by thanking Sun Microsystems, and in particular my manager during my short stint more than

The Chaw - A Wishlist

2009-12-19T00:00:00-05:00

Looking at thechaw.com to handle my project management needs (on a related note, I'll be doing less of this although

How CakePHP Automagic fails me (or How I failed at the FormHelper)

2009-12-10T00:00:00-05:00

Okay, so I have a custom Model::find() that looks like the following:

php



Quick Tip - Bring Out Yer Queries
2009-11-30T00:00:00-05:00
When I was a lad... jk
 Log your queries to find out what CakePHP is doing when it has 9


Quick Tip - Translating Model Variables
2009-11-28T00:00:00-05:00
While working on a now defunct cms, I was attempting to internationalize model validation messages. I thought I had


Inflect Shell - Inflect the heck out of your word(s)
2009-11-28T00:00:00-05:00
CakePHP provides us with a nice little Inflector class. It's quite useful in creating slugs, as you can see from


Thoughts - An API for Plugin Installation
2009-11-27T00:00:00-05:00
One of my current projects is a CakePHP plugin server. The existing sample was created by John David Anderson


Quick Tip - Model::save() isn't Model::saveAll()
2009-11-27T00:00:00-05:00
Saving multiple records that are related to a primary record?
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Rails-Style Error Messages in CakePHP
2009-11-26T00:00:00-05:00
I've had a bit of code tucked away in various files for a while. It was code to deal with


Trees Versus Graphs versus Vines
2009-11-22T00:00:00-05:00
 For cake acts as tree (behavior), the tree must only have one parent node? Djabbour  
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CakePHP HABTM Relationships
2009-11-22T00:00:00-05:00
I'm working with a startup at the moment and am attempting to add a simple counterCache to a http://book.cakephp.org/view/83/hasAndBelongsToMany-HABTM


First Post
2009-11-21T00:00:00-05:00
Finally decided to get something back up in terms of a blog. Currently using Jekyll, as my own clone of


Allow Subdirectories Apache
2009-09-07T00:00:00-04:00
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Simple JSON Layout
2009-09-04T00:00:00-04:00
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Cacheable Behavior
2009-09-04T00:00:00-04:00
php 
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ResourceHelper
2009-09-03T00:00:00-04:00
php 
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Hide Plugin Prefixes in Routed Urls
2009-09-03T00:00:00-04:00
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Conditionally Load Javascript
2009-09-03T00:00:00-04:00
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Conditional Loading of Helpers
2009-09-03T00:00:00-04:00
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Application Settings
2009-09-03T00:00:00-04:00
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Autobuilding Your Acos Table With Plugins
2009-08-26T00:00:00-04:00
 title: Auto-Building your ACOs table with Plugins category: Authorization tags: - acos - cakephp - plugins - book -


Adding a Helper/Behavior/Component on the fly
2009-08-14T00:00:00-04:00
Since I am on #cakephp at irc.freenode.org, I noticed a question about using a component in only one controller action.


Toggle Behavior
2009-08-13T00:00:00-04:00
UPDATE: Fixed link to latest revision of ToggleBehavior
 There is apparently already something out there that does this, but here


Trackable Behavior
2009-06-15T00:00:00-04:00
As always, I like taking code and trying to improve it. It's an exercise for me, sort of like dissecting


Commentable Behavior
2009-06-15T00:00:00-04:00
The following should get you up and running with Commentable Behavior. Note that I've only tested it with a "Post"


Yahoo Maps-based Geocoding
2009-06-14T00:00:00-04:00
I recently had to create online maps for an art gallery, specifically for their exhibits. So I decided to use