Introduction I am trying to help out on a cakePHP project for a friend. One of the things that has been added recently was a phpCaptcha component. This component uses the GD module to create images using text. Of course everything works fine on the test website, but not on my machine.I am working on ...Read More
I was chatting to a friend yesterday and he was interested in the podcasts that I listen to. This isn’t the first time that I have introduced someone to programming podcasts, so I figured I would write up the ones that I listen to and what I think about them. I’ll start with a list ...Read More
Background A few months ago I was in need of a new laptop. My current Sony Vaio was starting to struggle running Visual Studio 2005/2008, IIS and MSSQL 2005 all at once. So I started looking around for a replacement. Whilst reading reviews and generally searching for recommended development laptops, I started noticing a number ...Read More
This is somewhat amusing. I turned on Growl Sticky Notifications as I have become used to reading tweets as they are announced this way. I then left my laptop turned on whilst I went to eat some food. I come back around 45 minutes later and this is what I see.
A Domain Model? I don’t know. I have only read the first chapter of Eric Evans’, Domain Driven Design so far, so I might be on the right track here. From what we have figured out so far from the requirements we have the following entities. Club Member Team Manager Player Staff-Member This is where ...Read More
Background I am intending on writing a small application over the next day or two that will help me understand, at a reasonable level, some interesting technologies. The software will be a fictional Football Club organisation application; that is Football, the game where you kick the round ball with your feet, not whatever this soccer ...Read More
Last week I posted about trying out Blogo, a blog authoring application for the Mac. I contacted the support team at brainjuice explaining my problems, and mentioned that I missed the ability to have a link history/glossary. A few hours later I received a reply. I found out that the issue I had with style ...Read More
I have just finished entering the FC United of Manchester fixtures, for the first half of the season, into a google calendar. The official fixtures can be found at either FC United of Manchester’s official website, or at the Unibond League’s official website. These are the URLs for the different ways to access the calendar. ...Read More
I have been meaning to look at Ninject for a while now, and today I finally got my chance.I am only using some basic features of Ninject to replace my normal use of Constructor Injection that I tend to favour. This first example is based on the code needed to drive my jQuery examples. When ...Read More
The engine running this blog is DasBlog which does not appear on the list of supported systems for Blogo (FAQ), so I was expecting a few things not to work. I am making a second third test post from Blogo. The first time I posted it seemed that there was a style added to the ...Read More