[CakePHP] Pros and Cons of using cakePHP

http://www.bootstrappist.com/archives/to-cakephp-or-not-to-cakephp-should-you-use-it-or-dump-it/

To sum up from the article,

PROS:

• Shortens dev. time
• more secured
• pretty coding
• widely supported
• trend (?!) - many people talk about it

CONS:

• Not for complex issue
• Not always necessary
• Not really a "native PHP" training

[Apache + PHP] php_mbstring.dll missing

Wanna install 'Bake' for CakePHP. In cmd, when trying 'bake', an error prompts out like below (with solution included) :


http://aaron1102.pixnet.net/blog/post/51096054-%5B%E6%9E%B6%E7%AB%99%E6%9C%8D%E5%8B%99%5D%E9%A1%AF%E7%A4%BA%E9%81%BA%E5%A4%B1php_mbstring.dll%E7%9A%84%E8%A7%A3%E6%B1%BA%E6%96%B9%E6%A1%88

[Eclipse] Change Default Text File Encoding in Eclipse

Window -> Preferences -> General -> Workspace : Text file encoding

[CakePHP] Better Performance – Speeding Up Your CakePHP Website

http://doctorfox.wordpress.com/2013/08/20/better-performance-speeding-up-your-cakephp-website/

[Project Management] Drupal Case Studies

So, the story begins ... We want a online shopping website but we don't know what framework or tools can catalyze the development progress. The time frame is around 1 to 2 months. WordPress is good for layout process, but not good for customizing for our needs. Custom-made proprietary website likes our old one ... ya it is custom-made but wow, seems much work to do ...

All in a sudden we came up with a question: how about ... Drupal?

Found that several comprehensive project case studies have been put on Drupal, which can be brilliant reference sources for the newbies like us, I recommend this to you also to understand if Drupal suits your project needs.

https://drupal.org/case-studies

We have selected some main points to glance through in our preliminary phase, which might help for your decision making if you are in the same situation:

• Why Drupal was chosen
• Team Size
• Time Spent

This is what our rough result found:

• Drupal should be suitable for more likely the medium or large sized project
• One of the impressive features for Drupal is taxonomy, which seems more relevant to journal-related, news-related or story-related projects
• It requires skills and trials for us the Drupal newbies before the "real" development
• Roughly the projects take about a year or more for a small team size

As seems the findings above do not benefit much for our aim, thus, the idea of using Drupal is ABANDONED in our case.  

[Tomcat] An Introduction to Tomcat Catalina

Just notice that Catalina is very useful tool for taking logs of the server, thus wondering what Catalina in Tomcat is ...

https://www.mulesoft.com/introduction-tomcat-catalina

[ClouSE][EC2] What is ClouSE? What is EC2?

http://www.oblaksoft.com/documentation/

Something relates to MySQL, Cloud, EC2 and storage stuff?

So, what is EC2, more precisely, Amazon EC2?

http://blog.soft.idv.tw/?p=823

• What is Cloud Computing?
• -> What is SaaS (Software as a Service)?
• -> What is PaaS (Platform as a Service)?
• -> What is IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)?
• What is Amazon Web Services (AWS)?
• -> What is S3 (Simple Storage Service)?
• -> What is EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)?
• -> What is SQS (Simple Queuing Service)?
• -> What is VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)?
• How to get my AWS?

http://blog.soft.idv.tw/?p=824

• What is VPS (Virtual Private Server) and VM (Virtual Machine)?
• What are the differences between VPS and VM?
• What can EC2 do?
• How to get start with my EC2?
• How to use my EC2?

[Discussion on Framework] Pros and Cons of using Framework

http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/design/pros-cons-frameworks/

http://themetaq.com/articles/the-pros-and-cons-of-using-a-front-end-framework

Summing-up on using Framework:

PROS

• Development Efficiency
• Less Decisions Required
• More widely Tested
• Minimized Cost
• Documentation and Community Support

CONS

• Less Underneath Skills Trained
• Less Flexibility
• Virus-spreading Medium
• Performance
• Update Issues / Outdated Issues
• Collaborations on Customization

BEST solution never exists and BETTER solution depends on the situation. Discuss and know your needs. Stay open-minded in your discussions.

[WordPress] Custom Functionality Plugin for WordPress

Why and How to Create Custom Functionality WordPress Plugin
http://www.onextrapixel.com/2012/06/26/custom-functionality-plugin-for-wordpress-pros-and-cons/

Discussion on WordPress MVC Compliance
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2857143/is-wordpress-mvc-compliant

MVC Framework Plugin for WordPress
http://wpmvc.org/

[JS] Align Text in Shape

http://jsfiddle.net/m1erickson/upq6L/

[WordPress] Some PHP Code Standards stated by WordPress

http://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/coding-standards/php/

Some Highlights:

Indentation 

Rule of thumb: Tabs should be used at the beginning of the line for indentation, while spaces can be used mid-line for alignment.

Comma of Array

Note the comma after the last array item

Regex

It’s most convenient to use single-quoted strings for regular expressions 

End of Line / End of File 

Remove trailing whitespace at the end of each line of code. Omitting the closing PHP tag at the end of a file is preferred.

SQL Formatting

$wpdb->prepare() is a method that handles escaping, quoting, and int-casting for SQL queries. 

[Unrelated] Extension Reading on Programming Jargon:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/07/new-programming-jargon.html

[Wordpress] Some Code Function References

To interact with Wordpress database using PHP codes:

Insert Post
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_insert_post

Set Post Terms ( Tag or Category )
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_set_post_terms

Add Post Meta Field Data
(May be needed after added some plugins and would like to be compatible with them)
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_post_meta

Create Post Category
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_create_category

[Version Control] The Art of Commit Messages

http://coenjacobs.me/art-commit-messages/

Compare this two:

1. “Fixes bug described in #20″
2. “XYZ_Class test() method visibility to public to fix errors in #20″

[Facebook] Facebook Share Button

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/share-button/