CakePHP on your $PATH

I love baking a new project with the cake bake application from the terminal, especially with the new 2.0.0-dev version.

Since I work on multiple CakePHP projects simultaneously I am also in favor of one shared CakePHP core.

To make baking easier we will create an alias in ~/.bash_profile for our cake bake application so it saves us a lot of typing.

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Event Meta Tag in AS3 and Flex Builder

Recently I found out about the [Event] meta tag in actionscript 3. I always thought it was a Flex-only meta tag but that isn't true.

Because many Flex components are coded in Actionscript only (for performance purposes) you can also use the [Event] meta tags in Actionscript only projects. Since I am a big fan of code completion and strict typing everything in my code I am certainly adding the following trick to that list.

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Diving into iPhone Development

As a developer with some good and a lot of bad ideas piling up at the imaginary pile, a couple of months ago I started exploring Apple's iPhone SDK. So far so good. I just wanted to share some good books about iPhone development and the Objective-C language.

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Importing Cinema4D model into Papervision3D 2.0

I would like to show you have you can use a custom polygon shape, made with Cinema 4D R11, using the build-in Collada export functionality in Papervision 3D 2.0 Great White.

Actionscript 3 Datastructures

This morning I came across a interesting AS3 implementation of the common known data structures. The download comes with a few interesting classes that can be very helpful on Actionscript projects: