CakePHP 1.3 Application Development Cookbook Review
I have been developing web sites and web applications for several years now, but have been wanting to try out a PHP development framework to take care of not having to program lower level functionality, which would also let me develop applications in much less time.
CakePHP is a php, rapid development framework, and the tutorials on the site walk you through creating a basic blog application in relatively little time.
The CakePHP 1.3 Application Development Cookbook, like all “Cookbooks”, gives you many code snippets to create commonly needed systems, which are used to create complex applications.
SVN in Shared Hosting with Hostgator
I’ve wanted to setup an SVN server for personal use, and to keep files current between my fiance and me when we’re working on the same project.
So far I’ve resorted to using a flash drive, but sometimes it takes a while to check which machine or flash drive has the latest copy of my program source, or even sometimes losing the flash drive, and potentially having the latest copy lost.
Well, I switched hosts to hostgator not too long ago from Godaddy, which had been great for my static+php sites, but awful for wordpress, due to fetching from the database. Sometimes 60 seconds to load a basic page! (5 seconds max with hostgator, BTW)
I like hostgator a lot better, they make it easy to run CRON jobs, but could I finally have a basic SVN server using them?
Yep, here’s how I did it, although it took over 3 hours of pulling out hair:
