Developing With Style

Update: The Github repository I created now has an untouched clone of the CakePHP 1.2 SVN branch as the master. I then created a branch of this called ‘pimped’, which contains my own custom code. This means that you can choose to use the official Cake core, or my pimped copy. I’ll try to write [...]

For the last few days, I have been thinking about how me and the team around me can improve productivity and communications when developing. Currently, the system we use is a little disjointed, and utilizes several different systems and solutions. Fortunately one such solution is Basecamp, which happens to be one of the best around [...]

Ryan Carson just posted a small tip on his blog about how he improved his email productivity using TextExpander for the Mac.
Using a mix of keywords and/or keyboard shortcuts, TextExpander slashes the time it takes to write an email, especially if it contains lots of content that you repeatedly use. Perfect for writing support emails.
I [...]

One of the worst thing I ever have to do while developing on Windows, is to use the windows DOS command window. It has to be one of the most unfriendly pieces of software of the planet. So when I heard that MS had just released version 1.0 of an all new shell command window [...]

The guys over at 37Signals really are doing something right. Not content with launching a masively popular open-source web application framework, aswell as five of the web’s most popular Web2.0 applications; they have now decided to let us all in on the act and have written a book on how they do it.
Getting Real: The [...]