Class Outfit Articles

Focusing on your front end and disregarding your back end is like sticking a huge fibreglass body kit, a fancy paint job and baked bean can exhaust pipe onto a car with a 1.1 litre engine and expecting drag car performance. It isn’t going to happen. Ignore the database at your peril.
These simple, basic and easy to apply database tuning tips will boost the performance of your database – and therefore your site.

As is often the way when developing, I stumbled around for too long to solve a problem that was – in the end – very easy to fix.

Here’s a way to add a delete confirm screen to your apps if you are uncomfortable relying on the standard baked javascript prompts.

Most sites need a way to send out emails. CakePHP provides a simple way to send both html and plain text emails using the email component. Here’s how I deployed and used the email component.