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New to Lithium: Part 1 12 Aug 2011 | 07:19 pm
I enjoy writing prose more than writing code, though I must say that the two writing environments seem to reinforce each other. I come to understand complexity by distilling it to its most basic logic...
Running Authorize.net Transactions in Lithium 13 Jul 2011 | 06:13 am
Here’s a class I built for running transactions in Lithium. More information is available on the GitHub page. Be sure to check it out. It’s meant for use in Lithium, but with some minor tweaking, coul...
Lithium for Newbies 1 Jul 2011 | 11:02 am
I have a special place in my heart for newbies, mostly because at one level or another I’m always a newbie to something out there. Technology and computing just has a way of always keeping us on our t...
Cappuccino and Titanium for Building Desktop Apps 16 Jun 2011 | 06:03 am
Just discovered how easy it is to get a desktop app off the ground with Cappuccino and Titanium frameworks. 280North, the developers behind Cappuccino, have already created a beta of Atlas that enable...
Installing MongoDB on MAMP 1.9.5 12 Mar 2011 | 08:13 pm
Appsolute launched MAMP version 1.9.5 today, so I thought it’d be a great time to add MongoDB to it and improve my NoSQL skills. 1. Prepare MAMP for MongoDB files Create a new folder at Applications...
A Quick Unit Test in Lithium 0.5 7 Feb 2010 | 05:49 am
Unit testing has always proven a chore in past projects. But a necessary one. The more specific the testing, the more effectively one isolates problems in the code. Well, and the more aesthetic, provi...
Transitioning from CakePHP to Lithium 4 Feb 2010 | 06:04 am
For anyone following the CakePHP project, you likely already know about the Cake3 project spinning off and becoming a separate framework called Lithium (li3 for short). After a couple of months of tes...
Formatting Dates in Cappuccino with CPDateHelper 6 Aug 2009 | 12:25 pm
I missed being able to format dates like I do in PHP and with a current Cappuccino app I’m working on, I couldn’t help build a date formatting helper. I’ve posted it as an open source class on GitHub ...
Cursed Leap Years! 6 Aug 2009 | 07:45 am
I used to think that leap years only happened every four years. In fact, every centennial year that is not evenly divisible by 400 is not a leap year. I don’t expect to live to 2100, so it shouldn’t ...
Upgrading PHP in MAMP 5 Aug 2009 | 06:45 am
I wanted to take advantage of PHP 5.3′s new 1 namespace feature but in my localhost environment, I use MAMP. Upgrading PHP proved a little tricky, but actually very easy. The tricky part was figuri...
