You don’t have to kneel at the altar of the cult of Apple

Unless you’ve been living under a rock
You will have seen, heard and read the buzz about the Apple iPad. What it is, what it does and why you should buy it. This post is not about all that – it’s covered in excruciating detail elsewhere on your favourite tech site. Ever since the iPad was [...]

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I won a free Typemock t-shirt via Twitter!

Recently I re-tweeted something from Roy Osherove, and as a consequence, I received a nice t-shirt today all the way from Israel! As a bonus, also visible is my copy of The Art of Unit Testing, by Mr Osherove.

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New Year’s Resolutions are so passé

It’s true, New Years resolutions are passé. Every year, you look at what is wrong in your life and triumphantly decide that you are going to resolve these problems by issuing a bold and sweeping set of statements, or edicts.

Lose weight
Stop smoking
Get fit

These are what you want to achieve, chasing that ever elusive dream of [...]

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more cake

Something I discovered fairly quickly when coding (cake)PHP in eclipse, is that, like code completion in Models, unless you do a little extra configuration, code completion in Views won’t work.
If however, you make a slight modification to the Views index.ctp, and create a HtmlHelper() yourself, then you get code completion on $html->, and access to [...]

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