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First Rails, now Cake!
After my brief flirt with Ruby on Rails (see previous post), I decided to have a play with CakePHP too. A similar concept, implemented slightly differently, with (obviously) PHP doing the heavy lifting rather than Ruby. So what’s the skinny? According to book.cakephp.org, CakePHP is a free, open-source, rapid development framework for PHP. It’s a [...]
Riding the Rails
I had a little work project to do recently, a simple online database-updater. Nothing fancy, two small related tables, fairly standard master/detail stuff. So just for a giggle (and ‘coz I’m a geek) I thought I’d take RoR for a test-drive. Woohoo what a ride! Within about 15 minutes, following an online tutorial, I’d installed [...]
Next!
OK, after living with DeepBlue for a while (and quite liking it myself, I think the kindergarten colour scheme is actually pretty cool), it’s time to try the next one. This is a much more professional presentation, don’t you think? It’s the Carrington Blog 2.0 and I think it might be a bit to severe [...]
Online Password Generator is back
A regular user pointed out last night that the online password generator at http://pwd.pembi.net wasn’t working any more. Turns out my host’s SSL had been broken.
Why is my bank using TouchClarity?
Should I be concerned that my online banking transactions are being monitored by an internet marketing and trends-analysis company? Damn right I should! I can understand their desire to track enquiry-to-signup rates – that’s important information for any company – but to continue tracing my activity once I’ve logged into my supposedly secure banking portal [...]
