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I have several things on the list that I would like to do for HiddenWord.org.  Before I start any of those though, I would like to know from any of the users of HiddenWord.org what features they would like to see added to the application.  Leave a comment and let me know what you would [...]

Recently I’ve been looking into encryption.  I’ve been looking at ways to encrypt data through my web applications.  I’ve also been thinking about ways to encrypt data using well known techniques for data right on my system.  I’m not inventing anything that hasn’t already been done.  I’m just looking into doing something my self just [...]

I wrote about CSS development and frameworks a while back and someone informed me about Compass.  That was the first time I heard about Compass and decided to check it out.  After watching the demo I was pretty much sold.  I decided to implement Compass into our intranet as a testing ground and see how [...]

Update: I fixed a bug in the code below. It should work properly now.
I wrote a couple of articles about a year ago describing an idea I had for implementing security into a CakePHP app to insure that cross site scripting attacks don’t get though.  Just recently I’ve been working on it again for [...]

Over the last several days I’ve been trying to do a deployment to our test server and kept running into all kinds of problems.  We have some shell scripts that handle the bulk of the deployment for us, but I found out that it wasn’t completely working.  In this particular deployment, I made some database [...]

I just published a new screen cast of the new version of HiddenWord.org.  Check it out and let me know what you think.  Please leave any comments, suggestions, or improvements that you might have.
http://screencast.com/t/xQSSdPGBcI

I mentioned a little about the Blueprint CSS framework a while back.  I’ve been actively developing a couple of sites using it and thinking about using it on another project.  I have to say that I really like it.  It seems that many people are coming up with new ways to develop their sites with [...]

I talked briefly in my last post about unexpected functionality in trying to retrieve some related data using CakePHP.  I’m going to spill the details here in hopes that it will help someone new to the framework understand how to do more customized complex finds and retrieve all of your data in one nice data [...]