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{ Monthly Archives } March 2008

My Homemade Vanilla Extract

I haven’t found much time for cooking lately but this project brought me back to the kitchen tonight. I’ve been acquiring the ingredients for about a month and finally found a suitable bottle (it was originally a bottle of Mönchshof World Classic Schwarz). I followed these instructions for the most part but I [...]

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How my cookies became a one way street

I’ve been playing with CakePHP’s session code lately and ran across an interesting (read: nerdy) problem with cookies on AMO.
First, some background:
The uniqueness of a cookie in the browser is determined by all the attributes when it’s set (not just it’s name). That means I can have multiple cookies named AMOv3 as long as [...]

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When is a TINYINT(1) not a TINYINT(1)?

When you’re using CakePHP!
Turns out CakePHP considers a TINYINT(1) to be a Boolean. Judging from all the support tickets that have been filed, I’m not the first person to get taken off guard by this behavior. When I asked about it on IRC, the response was that since MySQL considers a TINYINT(1) to [...]

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Frameworks that start sessions for every visitor make me sad

I might have played the devil’s advocate when Lars was hating on frameworks at the barcamp last weekend, but that doesn’t mean I don’t see his point. The latest in a series of frustrations with frameworks kept me up until 3am last night. What better way to cap it off than complaining on [...]

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