by Lee Forkenbrock | Jan 29, 2014 | CakePHP Development, Unit Testing
If you want to write unit tests against a 1.3 CakePHP application (and you should want to write unit tests), using this TestCase class and Mockery will let you use forward-compatible PHPUnit-style assertions by temporarily translating them to SimpleTest assertions....
by Lee Forkenbrock | Apr 3, 2013 | CakePHP Development, Ember JS Development
The landscape of web application development is constantly changing. New technologies pop up all around, and “definition” of a modern web application becomes more and more complex. Ember.js is one of these new technologies. It is a rich front end...
by Lee Forkenbrock | Feb 14, 2012 | CakePHP Development
The Twitter Bootstrap css library is a great starting point for putting together nice looking web apps. We’ve found it very useful for building wireframes quickly. Giving clients something they can actually use and click on in a web browser is wonderful. The...
by Lee Forkenbrock | Apr 12, 2011 | CakePHP Development
The metadata plugin simplifies the setting of HTML page meta data. Web site meta tags are often the same for every page, but a few could vary between requests. The purpose of the metadata plugin is to eliminate view or layout logic for setting meta tags data. It is...
by Lee Forkenbrock | Oct 20, 2010 | CakePHP Development
Loadsys has released a CakePHP plugin to aid in the creation of JSON APIs. This plug-in contains a few helpful classes for both the API side and a CakePHP JSON API consumer. This post will cover one of the pieces from that plug-in called the Server Response Component....
