Last night, while researching something related to Arduino (my newest/only hobby), I came across a forum thread that literally made me laugh out loud every time I read it. I tweeted it, which was subsequently retweeted many times over, and I started seeing various responses. The results were interesting. You should read the thread for yourself to see how you interpret it but to me, it reads like so…
Continue Reading...A topic critical to controllers, although not dictated within the actual controller code are routes. Routes are how URLs map to the controller and action to be invoked. Chapter 3, “A Manual for Your Yii Site,” introduced the basic concept and Chapter 4 explained how to configure the “urlManager” component to change how routes are formatted. Let’s now look at the topic in greater detail.
NOTE: This is an excerpt from Chapter 7, “Working with Controllers,” of “The Yii Book”.
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I’ve not spent much time thinking about software licenses in my career. Partly this is because I don’t sell software and partly it’s because “Who can be bothered?” As with anything legally-related, “Who can be bothered?” is not justification to avoid thinking about an issue. And, even though I don’t sell software, I certainly provide software in the form of downloadable code.
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This entry is part 8 of 8 in the series Processing Payments with Stripe
To wrap things up on my eight-part series on processing payments with Stripe, I’ll mention a few random things under the guise of testing and tricks. Most of the information will only make sense if you already understand how processing payments with Stripe works (i.e., if you’ve read the entire series).
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It’s the beginning of a new year, which makes it an apt time to talk about resolutions. But I’m not really a resolutions kind of person. Instead of resolutions, I prefer goals, specifically work goals. (And by “prefer”, I mean that it’s something I’ve finally started purposefully thinking about in the past couple of years.) I often get asked about what kinds of things developers should learn, so a good portion of this newsletter will be goals you could set towards that end. You’ll also find links to my 2013 goals, and a recap of how well my 2012 resolutions, er, goals, were met.
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