Studio Canaria

CakePHP Containable Behavior

Published: on 3/7/08 | Comments (8)

The last week or so, I have been taking a good look at the latest release of CakePHP.

CakePHP.1.2.0.7296 RC2 is a great release, so a big pat on the back to the entire development team, and keep up the good work.

One of my favourite features of the this release is the new Containable Behaviour which was introduced back in change set 6918 and is a mixture of two behavoirs, the original Containable behavior by Felix Geisendörfer and the Bindable behavior by Mariano Iglesias.

Basically the...

Introducing Asymetrix

Published: on 3/6/08 | Comments (0)

Well, you know how it is, you start speaking to someone, they ask you what you do, and you reply 'I'm a software developer', and the first thing they say is, 'oh, actually I've been having a few problems with my computer'.

I'm sure you've all been there, and I often wonder whether Racing car drivers are forever being asked to touch up a bit of body work on there mates cars! Or whether films producers constantly get request to fiddle with faulty video recorders!

I suppose it's just...

Introducing Demogan Business Listings

Published: on 21/5/08 | Comments (0)

About six years ago, Lynne and I came up with a plan that would achieve two of our biggest goals in life in one go, firstly, Lynne had always wanted her own cafe, secondly, we had both decided that once the kids were old enough, we would sell up and move to the Canary Islands and start a new life.

Well, we bought an empty shop, converted it to a cafe and for 5 years both worked our butts off, Lynne running the cafe and myself working freelance developing software, web sites and web...