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CakePHP Geshi helper

I have written a small Geshi helper for CakePHP, with Geshi you can display formatted code with colours. Just drop Geshi in your vendors directory and create a a helper to your taste.. personally I use a style helper which contains different methods to help format an article.

Now just create <pre class="php"> code goes here </pre> in your article and your done. Replace php with the language of your choice.

Google Web Site Optimizer Tool

Google has released a new service called Website Optimizer Tool it is really usefull to compare different elements in your website to see which one will generate the most leads. Sitepoint has written a good article about how it works, and how you can benefit from it.

CakePHP 1.2 Paginate associated model

Ok this took a while for me to figure out. But it is possible to override the default pagination function in CakePHP so you paginate a different model, i paginated all related articles on a tag with this example.

Ubuntu 8.04 released

Today ubuntu released hardy heron, it has some nice improvements i have been running the alpha for a while now and it's pretty stable. It doesn't have any major new features but the overall improvements are nice.

All the new features can be found on this page. The most noticable improvements for me where the the new Openoffice and Firefox. They both integrate much better into the desktop and are helluvallot faster :-)

ySlow make your pages fly

With ySlow it's easy to optimize your page, it will give you allot of tips to really make your pages fly. ySlow is an extension created by yahoo.

Here you can see my results. They are really impressive, the size of the page has gone from 580k to 253k on the first load. A cached page has even greater performance gains, from 45k to just 2.5k. Almost 20 times smaller. So here is how i did it.

CakePHP Image helper

I wrote this image helper cause i needed it on my site, there was another one allready available on the bakery. However this did not meet my needs, this image helper has a resize for thumbnails, and a resize and crop which will cut off the top and bottm or left and right if it does fit the entered size. It also saves transparent png's which the other did not and caches the images.

Big changes...

Yes finally i have updated my site it was about time. The last post dated from over 2 years ago, i just didn't really had the time to maintain it with my study and work. I promise i will post more regular now :D

I wrote this new site on cakephp which is a wonderfull php framework, so it will be more easy for me to add new features. I will write some functionality soon that you are able to comment on the articles. If you have any suggestions on things that you would like to see send me a message on my contact form.