http://www.actionshrimp.com fun and geekery Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:55:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For small Cake websites with admin routing enabled, I like to use the Auth component to require a login for all admin routes, and allow access to everything else using the following beforeFilter in the AppController superclass: [sourcecode lang="php"] function beforeFilter(){ $admin = Configure::read('Routing.admin'); if (isset($this->params[$admin]) ... http://www.actionshrimp.com/2009/04/cakephp-pagescontroller-with-admin-routing/ In the first part of my CakePHP tutorial, I showed you how to use Cake's Bake utility to set up the basic back end of an online illustration portfolio. In this part, I'll tweak the automatically generated code into useable website and admin section and show you how to use ... http://www.actionshrimp.com/2009/03/cakephp-tutorial-part-2-authentication/ A friend of mine recently asked me to help him build an online portfolio for his illustration pieces, and I decided to use CakePHP 1.2 to get the back end up and running quickly. I thought someone might find a tutorial taking a simple website through from start to finish ... http://www.actionshrimp.com/2009/03/cakephp-tutorial-part-1-bake-utility/ As you may know, if it can't find an index.html the apache web server will show a list of files in the current directory. I was browsing through lists of images on my file server the other day and I thought, wouldn't it be nice to have a next button? ... http://www.actionshrimp.com/2009/03/using-lightbox-with-apache-directory-listings-as-an-image-gallery/ Today I had a go at installing awesome window manager. awesome is a great tiling window manager, useful if you have a large monitor and are fed up with having one window taking up all the space when it doesn't really need it all. For example, having firefox maximised on ... http://www.actionshrimp.com/2009/02/installing-awesome-window-manager-on-ubuntu-intrepid/ Click here for the cryptic crossword solver. I have recently been working on a free cryptic crossword solver to be used by my sister and parents who are fanatics. It is linked to a database of around 250,000 words, with the word list from the UKACD. It lacks a few useful ... http://www.actionshrimp.com/2008/12/cryptic-crossword-solver/ I recently discovered the wonders of skype, and tried to get my new webcam working with it under linux, and of course this proved to be quite tricky. After much fiddling I eventually got it to work, hopefully these steps will work for you too. The gspca drivers are available from ... http://www.actionshrimp.com/2008/08/logitech-quickcam-e2500-on-ubuntu-skype/ When adding posts to my TiddlyWiki, I oft found myself craving vi, rather than a simple textarea. There were a few options that involved using a plugin for Firefox such as mozEx, and using an external program to edit textareas. However, I found a nice 'integrated' option instead. jsvi is an ... http://www.actionshrimp.com/2008/05/jsvi-and-tiddlywiki/ This post is adapted from my LatexRenderPluginDoc page on my wiki, so might contain a couple of errors on the copy over. If something doesn't seem right, refer to that page, and please tell me in a comment below. This uses LatexRender, my simple TiddlyWiki macro, LatexRenderPlugin, and a custom script ... http://www.actionshrimp.com/2008/05/integrating-latexrender-into-tiddlywiki/ Since I installed Hardy a week or so ago, I noticed the hard drive in my laptop was making a strange clicking noise every 5 seconds or so. At first I thought it must be slowly dying, and I was starting to get a bit worried, but then realised it ... http://www.actionshrimp.com/2008/05/laptop-hard-drive-clicking-in-hardy/