End Your If

I’m sorry I haven’t been blogging much recently.  I was blessed recently with twins!  Whenever I’m not taking care of them, I’m currently working on developing Flash Games.

I’m currently compiling statistics about my success with them.  In the meantime, if you know a bit about Flash and want to earn some extra revenue, join MochiMedia and start integrating ads into your game.

Feel free to share your success stories with me, I’ll be sharing some of mine soon.

Hey readers, I just wanted to take time on this Victoria Day long weekend to let you know about my latest website called Game Serf.

If you’re like me and play video games online all day, why not get paid to play them!  Check it out today.

So it’s Friday, it’s been a long week.  I don’t know about you, but I need a beer and need to relax.  Check out this little Flash game that I created a little while back:

http://www.endyourif.com/npuzzle/npuzzle.html

It’s called N-Puzzles, also known as, 8-Puzzles, 15-Puzzles.  You simply need to place the puzzle pieces in order from left-to-right.

Enjoy!

Today at work I was advancing one of our iPhone applications.  It’s a pretty basic application, has a menu which displays some data from the web via XML; all of that fun stuff.

On occasion, I would try to push a view controller and the application would randomly crash, e.g.:

Code block

-(void) showMainMenu {
[mainNavigationController pushViewController:mainMenuViewController animated:YES];
}

CakePHP offers a lot of functionality to us as developers. The ability to develop websites rapidly provides a trade-off in how quickly the website will load. As we expand our skills, we will learn the techniques that will slow down/speed up performance.

Objectives

• Apply techniques to speed up CakePHP’s load time
• Optimize our queries
• Cache query results

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Two of the biggest things that will improve your search engine rankings are keyword rich website titles and keyword rich links to your content. Today’s lessons will cover both of these topics.

Objectives

• Improve our search engine rankings
• Set a title tag
• Map a specific URL to a custom controller and action
• Avoid using ids or numbers in our URL

Before I start, I would like to make it clear that this article is and does not intend to be a be-all-to-end-all of the SEO necessities for your website. It is meant to describe some excellent techniques to quickly and easily improve upon CakePHP to make it more SEO friendly. More »

Last night was the premiere of my current favorite TV show “How I Met Your Mother”.  If you are not familiar with the show, former childhood star Neil Patrick Harris (Doogie Howser), plays a character named Barney Stinson.  Barney is known for several catch-phrases as well as special high fives.

Borrowing some of the more popular high fives, I have created a top five high fives for developers.

Without further adieu, let’s begin the countdown. More »

The other day, I had chopped up a design.  Sliced and diced if you will.  I proceeded to creating the HTML once all of the images were sliced up.

Things were going great.  As per usual I began designing in Mozilla to use Firebug to tweak the CSS and HTML.  Once I finished the design, I proceeded to test in Chrome, Safari, and of course, Internet Explorer.

Every browser but Internet Explorer was working perfectly, what gives? More »

Ugggh what a disaster today was!  On a client’s site, we have an older version of CakePHP, pre containable functionality.  Because of this, we have to use unbindModel and bindModel to accomplish the same functionality.

Over the past while, it has not been such a big deal.  However, for some other unknown reason, a search feature wasn’t returning back the appropriate associative data.  This had been working for quite some time, then suddenly stopped.  As I mentioned, I’m not exactly sure when and why it stopped working, but it did. More »