Author Archives: stepas

Using CakePHP behaviors

Posted on December 12, 2010 by stepas

Let me assume: your Cake app has users and these users have something in hasOne or hasMany relationships. If there are more than one user you probably want to allow most of CRUD actions only to the owner. How do … Continue reading →

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Project JavaScript string localisation

Posted on November 20, 2010 by stepas

If you ever worked on a project which involved JavaScript text, you surely have had some thoughts on how to pass localized or server-side processed strings to JavaScript. One good way is JavaScript templates (Mozilla has some links, I use … Continue reading →

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Project Javascript layout

Posted on October 18, 2010 by stepas

For some time I’ve been finding myself coding more JavaScript instead of server-side code. And I like it! But that aside, I want to ask you: do you have a file and object-wise layout for your JS code? I’ve got … Continue reading →

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CakePHP vs. Zend framework? The answer is one question.

Posted on October 4, 2010 by stepas

CakePHP or Zend framework – this question arises quite often. In my opinion, the answer to it is the answer to this question: Are you (your team) skilled enough to define your own application structure and keep all code in … Continue reading →

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Fixing code or writing code – what`s better?

Posted on September 26, 2010 by stepas

This is a long write-up. If you get bored at some point, I recommend going to the conslusion. Writing new code. Fixing old code (that’s like archaeology, right?). But which one of those does help you become better faster? More … Continue reading →

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Why it is more fun to code in a team?

Posted on September 16, 2010 by stepas

Because you can smile by looking at other guy’s code:

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jQuery selectors on IE 6 and 7 don’t always work as expected on repeating IDs

Posted on September 13, 2010 by stepas

Today I’ve had a small freelance job on fixing a bug in a e-shop. To summarize, the task was like this: IE 6 and 7 don’t behave as other browsers, including IE8, do. Fix this! Despite the fact that I, … Continue reading →

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Interruptable file download

Posted on September 11, 2010 by stepas

Have you ever been to a website that offers downloads of stuff? And while you are waiting for the download, there are lots of ads around? Sure you have. I have too. The last day I was downloading stuff. An … Continue reading →

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WhoAmI

Posted on September 9, 2010 by stepas

Hello, my dear code friends! I want to start my blog with introducing myself. My name is Steponas Kazakevičius. I was born and am still living in the center of Europe – Lithuania, in its beautiful capital city Vilnius. 4 … Continue reading →

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Hello world!

Posted on September 5, 2010 by stepas

Hello! This is my first blog post. So I won’t be writing anything more than I (and probably lots of others programmers too) have started their journey of DEV: 1 2 <?php echo "Hello world!"; More coming shortly.

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