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OAuth Consumer in CakePHP 2.0.5

Getting the CakePHP OAuth Consumer to work in CakePHP 2.0.5

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Smarter images in Jadu CMS

An exploration into low impact development within a CMS, building lightweight functionality to improve how we use imagery within web pages that can be replaced as and when the platform evolves.

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Building a ‘killer coursefinder’

The video from the presentation I delivered at the CISG and Online Information conferences covering the University of Leeds’ Course Finder, how and why it was developed, and ultimately, what I think we should be doing to make it truly a ‘killer’ service.

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Working to a structured development process

You might work on small projects or large scale developments, you might be the only person involved or you might work with many others, regardless of your situation, having a structured development process is essential.
I work for the University of Leeds as a generalist designer/developer, a recent project of mine has been upgrading our institutional [...]

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Using PHP’s alternate syntaxes

If you’ve ever worked with PHP you’ll be more than familiar with the use of if/elseif/else conditional statements, these statements often become large and unweildy, especially when HTML is mixed in with PHP, causing a problems with code readability. There are a couple of alternate ways to write these statements which can improve your code.
if..endif [...]

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Quick and dirty dropdown pagination in CakePHP

I’ve been slowly rebuilding my Moblog application using the CakePHP framework over the past year when I have the time and motivation. Over the past few evenings I’ve been refining a small element of my Moblog site which has started to dramatically increase user interaction with the site and allow old content to bubble back [...]

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