Xcode 4 and git

I downloaded and installed the new Xcode yesterday to work out some ideas I had and I found that it ships by default with git integration.

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Turns out that after the installation process the package takes up about 10 gig on your hard drive but it includes all the earlier iOS version packages as well. When I started my new project Xcode asked me to put my files under GIT version control. I was surprised about this integration and off course I clicked yes.

Xcode now works and integrates with git to keep your files under version control.

If you want to get started with git and you are working on Mac than this is pretty straight forward. Download the git-osx-installer from code.google.com

Now sit down and start reading on how to get started with git. This is an excellent online book: http://progit.org/book/

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CakePHP 2.0.0-dev and Auth

Learn how to set up a authentication system in CakePHP 2.0.0-dev. We are going to use some basic validation for our models and set up the views.

See how the newest version of Cake makes your life easier when it comes to authentication.

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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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