Monthly Archives: July 2009

Dynamic Database Connection with CakePHP

Posted on July 7, 2009 by turbodog

// Recently I was working on a project where I had a central Cake application for a group of clients and each client had their own database. I wanted to have all users sign into a central user’s table associated … Continue reading →

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Drag and Drop with jQuery and CakePHP

Posted on July 7, 2009 by turbodog

Recently I had a need for a data report with shopping cart-like behavior — let the user paginate through a list of items, drag items of interest to a “basket” and then take action on all items in the basket. … Continue reading →

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Disable Pidgin Notifications in Ubuntu 9.04

Posted on July 7, 2009 by turbodog

I love the new libnotify notifications in Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope, but don’t really want my IM messages popping up on the top right of the screen — especially at work. So how do you get Pidgin to just quietly blink … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu — Upgrade Pidgin to fix Yahoo!

Posted on July 7, 2009 by turbodog

I’m not a huge fan of Yahoo! IM, but I do have clients and co-workers that use it so I really need it to work in Pidgin. A recent protocol upgrade at Yahoo! broke Pidgin 2.5.5. I found several ‘fixes’ … Continue reading →

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