AJAX in CakePHP with jQuery

March 29 2009
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I’ve been tinkering around with CakePHP for the last few weeks out of curiosity. The process has been fun and has made me enjoy PHP much more especially since I am building my own “todo” application from the ground up as a learning tool. After getting the application to work the usual way (not spiced up with some AJAX goodness), I decided to add in some AJAX support. Although CakePHP comes with AJAX helpers that will certainly help make development a snap, I wanted use jQuery.

jTipster

March 11 2009
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What is jTipster? Remember the times you would like to add notes to a picture, but there were no other way to do it without firing up Photoshop. The problem with that is the content added to the picture was not easily changed, you needed some Photoshop skills and well, not SEO friendly.
So, what is it again? Well, jTipster allows you to add “markers” to a picture. For each marker added, you can add short or long captions that appear on rollover. See it working here.
So, how do you get it working. Follow the steps below to get started.

Ruminations

A long while ago, I saw a plain blue canvas in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. At that time, I was flabbergasted that was considered art - after all, it was a canvas of flat blue. I started laughing and I could not stop for a long time. Today, a few years later, I am thinking differently. The painting made me laugh. It was probably the highlight of my visit to SFMOMA (probably not meant to be so, but something I remember my visit by). Is it art? I guess so, after all, it evoked something in me.