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I use a lot of different technologies. I'm not an Apply guy, but I own a MacBook Pro. I'm not a PC guy, but I've used one for most my life and still do for work. I have an Android phone, and a Zune music player. I didn't go to school for programming and my programming is mostly limited to web technologies. I've programmed in BASIC, ASP, ActionScript, JavaScript, PHP, and more. I've used framewo...

Probably the most notable change I experienced in 2011 is my rate of growth. I've always loved to learn. I was good at it in school, and really couldn't get enough. It came easy. In highschool, I didn't spend very much time doing homework after school because I usually did it during other classes while still listening to the lecture. What little homework I remember doing was math, mainly calcul...

I decided I hated the way were were "deploying" at work. The guy before me never really had a deployment strategy (at least none that he left behind), let alone version controlled or tested software. I decided to take a crack at creating a simple Git-only deployment system. Keep in mind that this doesn't provide any quality control, such as running tests or setting permissions. It's just someth...

UPDATE: @savant and I were chatting in #cakephp one night. Turns out he had something similar, and took some of my ideas and came up with a nice solution: https://gist.github.com/1208800

We all know that testing can be really slow if you have a large app with a lot of fixtures. When dealing with this on a large test case file, it becomes a huge time waste to test the entire file each time when...

Since I have moved all of my plugins to Github, there's obviously some updating that needs to be done on my CakePHP apps that use those plugins as git submodules. Namely, I needed to replace the old repo urls with the new ones. To do this, I first opened up my .gitmodules file using vim.

$ vim .gitmodules

Then just some regexp happiness from command mode.

:%s/git\(:\/\/\|@\)codaset\.com\(:\|...