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Samsung Moment vs. HTC Hero

Posted on November 24, 2009 by turbodog

Just my two cents on Sprint’s two (so far…) Android phones… As a longtime Sprint customer, I waited patiently for an Android phone to arrive. The HTC Hero was finally announced and the Samsung Moment shortly after. At first glance, … Continue reading →

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CakePHP Models and requestAction

Posted on October 4, 2009 by turbodog

This may be kind of a “no duh” for some Cake veterans, but it was new to me, so I’ll share… When it comes to accessing a different Model from a given Controller I had always wondered which was the … Continue reading →

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Convert UPC-E Barcodes to UPC-A with PHP

Posted on September 17, 2009 by turbodog

Recently I had the need to convert 8 digit UPC-E barcodes to 12 digit UPC-A barcodes for an inventory app I was working on. After lots of Googling, I found this one written in Visual Basic: http://upcdata.info/?action=e2a And did my … Continue reading →

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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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