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CakePHP Shopping Cart

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

Looking for a standards compliant, open source, php shopping cart built on the popular MVC CakePHP framework? Checkout BakeSale.
Technorati Tags: CakePHP, BakeSale, ecommerce, shoppingcart

Is Wally McClure Going to Switch?

Friday, July 21st, 2006

ASP.NET guru Wally McClure is considering the purchase of a Mac. What’s next? Could the .NET Framework for the Intel Mac be far away? (Yes, I know about Mono) Steve Ballmer with an iPod? Maybe hell is about to freeze over?!?!
More info about switching
Technorati Tags: ASP.NET, iPod, Microsoft, [...]

How to Query Active Directory Using Enterprise Manager

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

Step 1
Open Security and find Linked Servers (Figure 1). This is where your linked server will show up after you add it.
Open Tools -> SQL Query Analyzer and paste in the following code:
exec sp_addlinkedserver ‘ADSI’, ‘Active Directory Services 2.5′, ‘ADsDSOObject’, ‘adsdatasource’
You should now be able to expand Linked Servers and see a server called [...]

Python meets .NET

Monday, July 17th, 2006

Article: A First Look at IronPython: Where Python meets .NET
Download: IronPython 1.0 Beta 8
I’m don’t know Python. However, the more I hear I about it, the more I think I may need to look into it. Python developers seem to be very passionate their chosen language. I mean, I like php…and [...]

Framework Performance Comparison

Friday, July 14th, 2006

Stress tests were performed on three MVC frameworks, Symfony on PHP, Rails on Ruby and Django on Python. Results have been published on the RoR Wiki. I would be interested in seeing the results of the same tests run with CakePHP.Technorati Tags: frameworks, symfony, rails, django, cakephp, mvc

Single User Admin Area Authentication with CakePHP

Friday, July 14th, 2006

This script is mostly the work of Shunro Dozono with some tweaks of my own to make it work with a path to /admin. It handles simple administrator authentication for a single user. Ok, here it goes…
Pre-requisite: CakePHP
First, download Shuro’s component, sd_auth. Copy and paste the code into a file called [...]

Tiptoe Through the Frameworks

Monday, July 3rd, 2006

Preface
Almost two years ago I jumped into ASP.NET and C# headfirst. This was my first exposure to OOP. I love it, and I don’t plan on turning back. However, for personal projects and freelancing I prefer to use PHP. PHP was my first “server-side” language (not counting a really small ASP [...]

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