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Question: How do I paginate data from a model based on a keyword submitted by a user? I must say that it’s a little tricky because the Pagination component in CakePHP uses GET parameters to do it’s magic. That wouldn’t be a problem if I didn’t care about my URL structure but for SEO purposes [...]

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Ever needed to connect to another database in your cake app but got stuck and came with another solution? There is a rather simple way to do this and I think it can be extended to other data sources too (not tested but let me know if you do ). Let’s get to it. First [...]

Today I started a new project that I’m developing for school and I thought I’d do it using cakePHP. I went ahead and downloaded xampp for linux and a fresh copy of the cakePHP framework, 1.3.0-RC3, and I extracted it to my webroot. After I created a virtual host for it, it was time to [...]

I’ve noticed that after updating my Ubuntu system, my wireless connection was a bit unstable. What I mean by that is loosing the connection shortly after getting connected. I don’t know if it’s a problem specific to my wireless card, but this fix worked for me and I’m going to share it with you now. [...]

As we all know, after each kernel update we must use a sudo apt-get autoremove to get rid of the old kernel images. This, however, does not take care of the grub menu which is updated with the new kernel along side with the old kernel entries. To update the grub menu, you must use [...]

I’m a huge fan of the progressive metal band Dream Theater and I love to play their tunes on the guitar. Having said that, I know that sheet music is a little hard to understand for some people when they see the song notes for the first time. To come in the aid of those [...]

We all hang our USB flash drives to our key chains because we don’t want to forget to take them (I mean… you don’t normally forget to take your keys with you, right?!). So, to have a more natural look of the key chain that should have keys hanging on it (you know.. it’s a [...]

I can’t believe how time flies. It seems like yesterday I was on a shopping spree for Christmas gifts, outfits for the Christmas party, for the new years party, spreading the good old Christmas cheer to all friends and family in the whole process. I like to have a Christmas present package. I mean I [...]

I continue sharing with you bits of code from my JAVA project picking up the thread left in Running SQL queries in JAVA. I remind you that I must develop a library application for school project. So far I showed you how I connected to a database and how I manipulate data from that database. [...]