Archive for February, 2010

It took me long enough, but I’m now on Twitter! I actually had an account set up several months ago but never logged in. I decided it was time. My username is practicalweb. While I may not post every event in life, I will try to keep it up to date with the blog and [...]

Finally, Impromptu 3.0 has made it! It features two changes really. One big and one small. The small addition was an option for classes. So you can now add extra classes to an individual prompt to customize the styles without needing an entirely new theme. Here’s the syntax: $.prompt(‘text here..’, { classes: ‘class1 myclass2 darkfade’ [...]

Not sure if cake has a prettier, more efficient way of grabbing components inside of Shells and Tasks with cakephp’s cli, but here is a way which worked for me. Inside your Task (or Shell) just use the following in a similar manner for your component: class FooTask extends Shell { App::import(‘Component’, ‘Bar’); $this->Bar =& [...]

I’ve been looking into simplifying my site a little and yet improving some search engine optimization, and as you may have noticed I’ve made a couple tweaks. First I removed the busy space background, and went a little more solid(not really for seo, but was tired of seeing such a busy background). I also added [...]

This post is more for my memory than anything. I always forget and need to dig around to figure out how (or more importantly “where”) to set JAVA_HOME in Ubuntu. It’s pretty simple. Find the location of your jvm. ex: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/ Add a line to your environment file: sudo pico /etc/environment Then just add the [...]