Author Archives: Daniel

Budgetary Details

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Daniel

Out of curiosity today I decided to look up some information about Canada’s federal deficit (read: how many fucking dollars is it?). I wasn’t sure whether to believe this site or not — its almost sappy, pleading tone (especially the … Continue reading →

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Javascript and CSS compression in CakePHP

Posted on April 21, 2010 by Daniel

Just a quick note for all of those looking to optimize their JS/CSS in CakePHP. The awesome Matt Curry put together a CakePHP plugin which makes this incredibly easy. Here is his Asset plugin on Github. It works almost perfectly … Continue reading →

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A Practical Guide to using PGP in Ubuntu Karmic Koala

Posted on March 27, 2010 by Daniel

As more and more of our data is stored and/or communicated digitally it’s becoming increasingly important for everyone to be aware of their privacy and security. Even though you might think nobody else could possibly be interested in your data, … Continue reading →

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CakePHP Paginator URLs and POST forms

Posted on March 20, 2010 by Daniel

There’s a quote that you often see in the #cakephp channel on irc.freenode.net and it goes something like, “If something is hard in CakePHP, then you’re doing it wrong”. This is proven to me over and over the more comfortable … Continue reading →

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How To Enable Half-Star Ratings in iTunes

Posted on May 23, 2009 by Daniel

I have such a large collection of music that 5 stars doesn’t really give me the kind of granularity that I need to rate my music, so I started looking to see if there was a way to tweak that … Continue reading →

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