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Sunday, January 31 2010

Git versioning considered harmful

I've had enough of Git, and I'm not even using it.

On my way to update CakePHP to 1.2.6 (which isn't even officially released on the website but already appears in the bakery), I check the release notes and downloads and suddenly remember that, in Git, revision numbers are actually 160 bits identifiers.

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Thursday, July 30 2009

Using Matt Curry's Asset Packer with themes in CakePHP

Matt Curry has written a CakePHP plugin to automatically compress CSS and Javascript files in CakePHP. It requires nearly no modification of existing code and works as you would expect it to. Except when you need themes.

If you choose to use the 'Theme' view in CakePHP, that plugin will happily disregard it and load the regular files instead of the themed files. I wrote a patch to fix the behavior.

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Saturday, June 13 2009

Demyo 1.3 released

Something like 4 months after 1.2, here is Demyo 1.3 Blaze.

For a developer standpoint, the main thing for this release was performance.

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