Missing tests - getting everything tested12th Jul 2011

Unit tests are not often the first thing on someone’s mind when it comes to coding, unless you are in the small group of developers that have become accustomed to writing tests before writing any code. Thanks to the current project I'm busy with I have joined this group.

Due to a few (lame) reasons, unit testing has never been a high priority on Infinitas. In all the wisdom of hindsight ...

A few updates to my blog10th Dec 2010

Super quick today, just activated the twitter plug-in so things will be a little bit more social :). The twitter auth is read only so I wont be doing any funny things to your account when you are not looking

I also added some new modules, down the bottom of every page is some links to other blogs I read. On the right is a box of "latest posts" for quick links to the new stuff.

I hav...

Huge speed gains for Infinitas8th Dec 2010

I just pushed some changes to Infinitas that has made a huge difference in the page load times. As you have seen in some of my previous posts, Infinitas serves loads of asset files. On average one JavaScript file and one css file, along with all the images. This equates to around 40 or 50 requests per page.

A little while back I added the code for generating symlinks automatically and al...

Infinitas is almost beta11th Nov 2010

If you been to my site before you will notice some changes. A few more links added to the nav bar with some new content.

As I said before I will be keeping my site running a standard version of Infinitas (with some of the available plugins), so that you may get a glimpse into what it has on offer. All the posts from before have been using the Blog Plug-in that was coded for Infinitas. Th...

Progress1st Oct 2010

Infinitas has seen some huge changes in the structure, if you been following the development you would have noticed. Besides removing a lot of code (about 50k lines or so) much of the code has new homes. With all the development going on some plug-ins were getting a bit full of unrelated code and it was decided that everything should be split up.

The new structure has a lot to do with th...

Job searching... The Developer way27th Jul 2010

So I am looking for a job at the moment (something in Php if you had not guessed) and got kinda sick of looking at the same jobs on all the different sites. As one would do, I wrote a feed aggregator, over the weekend. Added some logic to it to remove spam and duplicates so there is less running around on all the sites, extract vital information so I could see at a glance what the job is all...

Why I started Infinitas27th Jul 2010

Why another CMS? Its a mixture of reasons, of which the main ones are:

• Tired of writing the same code all the time.
• Good way to learn CakePHP inside out.
• For the most part other open source systems don't always fill the gap.

I found out about Php around 5 years ago playing with other Open Source systems such as Joomla, Zen-Cart and the likes. Doing quite a lot of cu...