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Welcome to the Unofficial Kohana 3.0 Wiki - James Carlos

SyncToy 2.1 is a free application that synchronizes files and folders between locations. Typical uses include sharing files, such as photos, with other computers and creating backup copies of files and folders. - James Carlos

Fancy Macaroni - James Carlos

From the page: "So for this project, I looked into the concept of â€Shellsâ€, which are basically command-line interfaces to a CakePHP application. It quickly became obvious that this was the best way to go about handling the cron jobs for a CakePHP application. It allows you to place all your sensitive cron code completely out of reach of the web facing part of the application, increasing security and decreasing complexity. Itâ€s really quite simple as well." - James Carlos

So for this project, I looked into the concept of ‘Shells’, which are basically command-line interfaces to a CakePHP application. It quickly became obvious that this was the best way to go about handling the cron jobs for a CakePHP application. It allows you to place all your sensitive cron code completely out of reach of the web facing part of the application, increasing security and decreasing complexity. It’s really quite simple as well. - James Carlos

Since Moses brought the tablets down from the mountain, lists have come in tens, not that we couldn't have done with several more commandments. Who says a year has Ten Best Films, anyway? Nobody but readers, editors, and most other movie critics. There was hell to pay last year when I published my list of Twenty Best. You'd have thought I belched at a funeral. So this year I have devoutly limited myself to exactly ten films. - James Carlos

Word Clock is a typographic screensaver for Mac OS X and Windows. It displays a fixed list of all numbers and words sufficient to express any possible date and time as a sentence. Word Clock displays time by highlighting appropriate words as each second passes. - James Carlos

People, I’m about at the end of my ordered-in dinner rope. It’s not that — as the front page of this site might suggest — I haven’t cooked anything since the baby arrived, it’s just that I’ve largely cooked things that could be assembled during naptimes, and most of Alex and my conversations about meals go, “What should we do for dinner?” “I made mushroom toasts and a bowl of butterscotch sauce today!” “Right, so what should we order?” And so on with the pho, cracker-thin pizza and hummusiot dinner deliveries. For three months. At 93 days, even shakshuka broiled with haloumi gets tiresome. - James Carlos

Aim & shoot - James Carlos

Content sliders are a great way to show large amount of content or images on a smaller area in a website or blog. They are commonly used in portfolio sites, corporate sites or blogs. You may probably heard that jQuery isn’t very hard to learn. If you are interested in implementing a content slider in your website please check our jQuery tutorials and plugins collection. - James Carlos

I love the simplicity of using (and more important re-using) jQuery plugins. So I decided to release a plugin that came from my personal need - Feature List. This jQuery plugin enables simple and easy creation of an interactive "Featured Items" widget. - James Carlos

One of the widely anticipated features of the new iPhone OS 3.0 is push notifications which allow messages to be sent directly to an individual device relevant to the application that has been installed. Apple have demoed this as useful for news alerts, or IM notifications however it fits in perfectly with the nature of our server monitoring service, Server Density. - James Carlos

REST is an architectural style, or set of conventions, for web applications and services that centers itself around resource manipulation and the HTTP spec. Web apps have traditionally ignored the HTTP spec and moved forward using a subset of the protocol: GET and POST, 200 OKs and 404 NOT FOUNDs. As we entered a programmable web of applications with APIs the decision to ignore HTTP gave us problems we’re still dealing with today. We have an internet full of applications with different interfaces (GET /user/1/delete vs. POST /user/delete {id=1}). With REST we can say /user/1 is a resource and use the HTTP DELETE verb to delete it. For more detail on REST check out wikipedia and “quick pitch“. - James Carlos

Hello all! Hope all is going well. This past weekend was my birthday, and we did a bit of over-celebrating! (Which is the main reason there was no post this weekend :) ) Now I’m back to bring yall some great, high-quality free Script fonts. As with all free fonts, its often hard to find really good ones. But I think I’ve managed to compile a very good list of free script fonts, from handwritten to grunge. I’m hoping this saves yall a bit of ever-important time! I’m including a preview and download link for each font. They are all free for commercial use to my knowledge, but check the licensing just to be sure. - James Carlos

Peteris Krumins’ blog about programming, hacking, software reuse, software ideas, computer security, google and technology. - James Carlos

Ever since I changed my job (from Business Intelligence to Web development) and started working with my present employer, I have had a chance to work on a lot of scalable projects. From making my project to scale from 20 Million PV’s to 100 Million PV’s to development of an internal tool, the answer to all scalable applications have been caching. - James Carlos

There is a nice selection of sites in todays Monthly Web Design mockup tutorials, especially from 1stwebdesigner and sixrevisions who have both created very clean and stylish sites . This roundup will not completed without minimalis design (designm.ag) my favorit one, wordpress design process (blog.spoongraphics) this is awesome, nature inspired layout design (grafpedia), magazine wordpress themes and another great Looking Web Layout in Photoshop. Most of theme PSD files also available for download. - James Carlos

We all (designer) are know that typography is playing a most important part in web design industry. So, have a look at these 21 Beautiful Big, Bold Typography Website Design and let us know your thoughts in comment. - James Carlos

behind every song there's always an emotion. we don't know why but maybe that's why we love music. so we've created a way to suggest songs that follow your feelings: stereomood is the emotional internet radio, providing music that best suits your mood and your activities. - James Carlos

Photoshop is one of the most widely tools used for web design. Most web designers don’t use all of the great things that Photoshop can do. It’s easy to get stuck in your ways but instead you should be looking to further improve your skills and learn new techniques to improve your web design work, work flow and productivity. The following are advanced Photoshop techniques that can help with your day to day use of Photoshop. - James Carlos

10/GUI aims to bridge this gap by rethinking the desktop to leverage technology in an intuitive and powerful way. - James Carlos

From the page: "Log files are one of the most important aspects of any web service. A webapp with a well designed logging strategy will allow you to essentially go back in time to track down even the most obscure bug. Unit tests have diminished the importance of log files somewhat but how do you write a unit test for a bug that only happens on server 2 around 2am in the morning when user fred is logged in?" - James Carlos

Log files are one of the most important aspects of any web service. A webapp with a well designed logging strategy will allow you to essentially go back in time to track down even the most obscure bug. Unit tests have diminished the importance of log files somewhat but how do you write a unit test for a bug that only happens on server 2 around 2am in the morning when user fred is logged in? - James Carlos

How I Hire Programmers - James Carlos

A Collection of jQuery and Ajax Tutorials with live demos, tutorials posted on 9lessons blog. In these demos I had explained about jquery connectivity with MySQL database, Ajax implementation with PHP and Animation addons to your web pages. I hope it's useful for you. Thanks! - James Carlos

A jQuery plugin for mobile web development on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and other forward-thinking devices. - James Carlos

Virustotal is a service that analyzes suspicious files and facilitates the quick detection of viruses, worms, trojans, and all kinds of malware detected by antivirus engines - James Carlos

The collection of sites below, are great examples of recent successfully designed minimal websites. - James Carlos

From the page: "Writing great documentation " - James Carlos

Writing great documentation - James Carlos