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To sign an pre agreement before actual quotation or not.

I realise that there is a need to sign a pre agreement for projects before jumping into research and suggestion of a full fledged solution for the client. I have a client who came to me via friend’s referral. He wanted an ecommerce website for school supplies. After a couple months of discussion and providing [...]

Working on a joomla project

Sorry to break my blog hiatus with a frustration expelling post. I worked on a joomla migration project. The website is a portal for a community. Nothing that requires cloud networking to function. As far as I can tell, the old website is fast enough for me. Some proMicrosoft company was contracted to do the [...]

Changing Model’s useTable from Controller

I was struck trying to get the controller to change the table of a model for a while. It turns out that $this->Payment->useTable = “payment_archives”; doesn’t work.. Instead I have to use: $this->Payment->setSource(“payment_archives”); It seems that useTable is not referenced to when deciding which table to use. bookmark

iPhone development

I have gotten a Mac machine for iPhone development. My first tutorial: WebView This is my first attempt for a iPhone application. Making use of WebViewUI to create an iPhone application that will load http://givemecake.dev-work.com. This application is not signed with Apple Developer’s security certificate, it can be installed only on a jailbreak iPhone.  To [...]

System Development with a Design Firm?

Hands up those design firms that are taking in system projects as well. Hands up those who REALLY have a functioning Tech team! That’s lesser hands. Designing and implementing a website is not the same as developing a System. The process that starts the both are  different. Yes, the designer and the developer both have [...]

Paypal PDN Integration No shipping address for Credit Card Payment

Default delivery address for Paypal Transactions is the Billing Address(which has to be the credit card holder’s address to prevent triggering fraud checks). Paypal allows user to specify another address when confirming the purchase. The website has already captured a shipping address on the checkout pages. The addresses captured and reflected in paypal’s system and [...]

Notes for migrating Cakephp 1.2.0.5427 to 1.2.5

Steps for migrating CakePHP to 1.2.5. Update Core CakePHP files Replace findByFieldName, findAllByFieldName with find(‘first’, $param) and find(‘all’, $param) findBy* methods are replaced with find($type, $param) $html->input replace with $form->input Form inputs comes in a new helper var $helpers = array(‘Html’, ‘Form’); Include FormHelper in $helpers bookmark