Comments at “Rob Wilkerson”

Synchronizing Firefox Through Dropbox

2009-06-24T08:17:52-04:00

helmut – Yep. I use that technique for a few project code bases that I want to share without necessarily having to commit and pull each time I change machines. Similarly, if all you want to do is just change the primary directory, you can modify that in the Dropbox preferences.

Synchronizing Firefox Through Dropbox

2009-06-24T07:26:44-04:00

You do know that by using Symlinks you can just route ANY folder into Dropbox?!
Turn to http://lifehacker.com/5154698/sync-files-and-folders-outside-your-my-dropbox-folder for an overview.

Cheers

CakePHP: Watch Out for the compact() Function

2009-06-18T16:52:26-04:00

jesse: I’m conflicted and admittedly inconsistent on this issue. Usually, when writing in case sensitive languages, I’ll use lower_with_underscores and headlessCamelCase with case insensitive languages, but especially with variable names (as opposed to class/method names), I’m not as consistent as I really should be. I kind of like both and tend to fluctuate far too much. :-)

CakePHP: Watch Out for the compact() Function

2009-06-18T16:49:54-04:00

That’s awesome, Nate. Thanks for the heads up.

Like most things it’s not such a big deal as long as you know to expect it, but I do prefer that my tools not modify entities that they are explicitly asking me to set. This is a decision that I’m glad to see reversed (even if it may cause me some short-term upgrade pain since I may have tweaked my view instead of my controller).

CakePHP: Watch Out for the compact() Function

2009-06-18T10:37:08-04:00

Hey Rob,

Yeah, I always thought that was kind of a dumb “feature”, so it’s been reverted in 1.3. Your variables will now always show up exactly as you set them, regardless of how you pass your parameters to set().

CakePHP: Watch Out for the compact() Function

2009-06-18T09:21:14-04:00

Hump notation for the win! After switching to hump/camel notation for a couple years I will never go back to the underscore format! I can’t say I have ever ran into this simply because I always use hump notation for my variables in Cake.

CakePHP: Watch Out for the compact() Function

2009-06-16T10:32:47-04:00

I apologize. I did that from memory and it was wrong. The second param is for the “set” method… and you want to use “false” rather than true. No detail of this in the CakePHP API, but it goes like this:

$this->set(compact(‘foo’, ‘bar’, ‘vendor_type’), false);

Taylor Luk pointed it out in a comment on the following blog: http://myeasyscripts.com/loudbaking/beware-of-the-underscore/#comments

This was brought up in Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php/browse_thread/thread/a136b91f49f1befb?pli=1. It appears that it will be resolved in version 1.3. Hope this helps.

CakePHP: Watch Out for the compact() Function

2009-06-15T17:39:43-04:00

Hey, Jeff – would you mind citing your source for that info? It sounds great, but I can’t find any indication of that second parameter in either PHP’s compact() function or in CakePHP’s Controller::set() method.

CakePHP: Watch Out for the compact() Function

2009-06-15T16:39:58-04:00

compact() takes another variable that solves the underscore problem.

$this->set( compact(‘vendor_type’), true);

Include “true” when using variables with underscores, and then they will show up in your view as is.

Redux: Synchronizing Firefox Through Dropbox

2009-06-12T19:34:33-04:00

Unfortunately, I do not. I’m also cross-platform (Mac, Win, Linux) and ended up switching to LastPass from 1Password for that reason. 1Password was great, but I needed a more available solution. Before I switched, I had the same problem you’re having, but never found a solution.

I wish I could be more help.

Redux: Synchronizing Firefox Through Dropbox

2009-06-12T17:49:43-04:00

Been using this for a few weeks now on two macs and a Windows machine. Unfortunately every time I start Firefox on Windows, it deletes the 1Password extension – presumably because it’s mac only. However, I need that desperately, so I have to reinstall it every time I use a mac after using windows…
Any suggestions?

CakePHP: Recursive Finds

2009-06-12T15:31:12-04:00

Adman, daniel h.,

Get over it. The point is that even after all the time inbetween the last post here and now, if a diligent programmer is reading the manual they are introduced to AppModel->find() in section 3.731 where the “documentation” of its options is as follows:

[…]
‘recursive’ => 1, //int
[…]
‘limit’ => n, //int
‘page’ => n, //int
[…]

The diligent programmer is made to wait until 3.7.8.6 to have ‘recursive’ explained to him or her, and even then, it’s mashed together with all AppModel options documentation. Regardless of how sensitive you are, this is not good documentation. There should either be better organization of section 3.7.8 or there should be links throughout all of section 3.7 to its specific definitions.

While artiescie’s point is obviously correct, that documenters have difficult jobs, adman’s assertion that we should all stop being “just too lazy [and] dig deeper” completely invalidates all of the documenter’s hard work in making the docs accessible in the first place.

Redux: Synchronizing Firefox Through Dropbox

2009-06-12T14:58:16-04:00

Take another look at XMarks (Formerly Foxmarks). Until recently I was completely resistant to the idea of syncing my bookmarks into the cloud. Until I found out that it supports the use of a “Custom Server”. So you can use your own FTP or WebDAV (via https even) server to do the synchronization with. Which is much more palatable to us security minded individuals (read: paranoid).

Not to say that I dont want to continue syncing my forms, passwords, and extensions… I will however be moving the bookmarks out of the dropbox folder and back into the default profile.

Installing a Linux ERD

2009-06-04T19:01:54-04:00

I really liked this post. Can I copy it to my site? Thank you in advance.

Linux: Make Your Scroll Wheel Double Click

2009-05-27T08:12:09-04:00

Works perfect, but unfortunately doesn’t survive an Ubuntu update. So i had to do this the second time ;)

Thank you for posting such a detailed guide.

Redux: Synchronizing Firefox Through Dropbox

2009-05-12T09:35:57-04:00

Yeah, I notice a similar level of chatter if I have FF open on multiple machines. It doesn’t eat Dropbox space (as far as I can tell) because it’s the same file, nor should there be a bandwidth issue unless it’s a huge file, but it’s definitely annoying.

Redux: Synchronizing Firefox Through Dropbox

2009-05-11T01:06:39-04:00

This works fairly well. But places.sqlite is still being synchronized almost constantly (about every 10 seconds, I guess everytime I visit another page). This seems like too much to me. I get the impression that it will eat up my bandwidth and dropbox space. For now I think I’ll just synch the other things.

Deleting .svn Folders

2009-04-27T09:20:54-04:00

I have to admit that I’ve never even laid hands on Vista. My only thought would be the Registry Editor version at the top of the regedit script. I suspect it’s incremented since XP.

Deleting .svn Folders

2009-04-26T18:26:04-04:00

Doesn’t seem to work in Vista.. any tips?

Redux: Synchronizing Firefox Through Dropbox

2009-04-21T07:11:37-04:00

Once the technique is fully refined, wouldn’t it be great to package it into a Firefox extension? Is there anyone here who would know how to do that??