Mozilla has released the second alpha of Fennec, their mobile browser. There’s a short but sweet overview of Fennec on Vimeo which is worth checking out. I think almost regardless of it’s performance improvements the real game-changing potential here is the inevitable swathe of add-ons and extensions that will be, and in some cases such… Read more »
Posts Tagged: webdev
Page Optimisation Technique – Build Two Rows For The Fold
Despite suggestions to the contrary, we web developers still very much have to work with the concept of a “fold” – that is the part of the page that is immediately visible when a user visits your site. This is usually considered to mean “before the user has to scroll down” but can also just… Read more »
Custom Model and Field Result Set in CakePHP
If you’re using CakePHP and want to perform a custom SQL query while forcing your results into an arbitrary Model-based array when they are given back to you, you could do a lot worse than using grigri’s (who is a fellow South Westerner and therefore obviously a good bloke ;) DboMysqlEx (Mysql Extended) Class, or… Read more »
Selecting a Different Table Column if the Original Record is NULL in MYSQL Using IFNULL
MySQL’s documentation is OK, but it’s examples are sometimes quite poor. I have a particular setup where values across two tables – a course table and a schedule table which relates to it – can be effectively “overridden”. The idea is that for any given course, one can set “default” values, and then these can… Read more »
MySQL Data Files In MAMP Pro
It took me a little searching to find where MAMP Pro (I couldn’t say whether MAMP is the same) puts its MySQL data files, so I thought I’d blog it