Recently, I've been playing with the ruby web framework Sinatra. It's a nice, simple little framework that lets you setup a small site quickly and easily. The one thing I was missing, however, was how to create an overall site layout. Read more»

For whatever reason, most of the PHP community is still stuck using plain-old mysql_connect(). This works, but for anything beyond your basic website, you really should be using persistent connections. Read more»

Continuing our series helping you write better CakePHP applications, we now turn to the dreaded hasAndBelongsToMany relationship. It's handy, but for anything other than the most basic examples it falls flat. Not anymore. Read more»

In the first in a series of ongoing articles on CakePHP best practices, I'll show you the proper proportions to bake your cakes. It's time to stop writing controllers thousands of lines long and learn the joy of fat models and skinny controllers. Read more»

It's time to stop hacking PHPNuke in your basement and become a fully grown professional web developer adult. Read more»

Diving deep in to the bowls of Wordpress reassures my belief that good code and a good app are not one in the same. Read more»

I love rsync.net. It's awesome for backups and the like, but I wanted to use it as a remote SVN repository. It was a little trickier than I imagined, but I managed to get it running. Read more»

The walls have been painted, the signage has been ordered, we've trained our staff & fired up rsync for one last time. Read more»