I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of clients treating web developers like brainless code monkeys. After so many years as a part of a legitimate and growing industry, why are web developers not yet treated like experts? Why do clients demand the final say on the presentation and mechanics of a website? Web developers are the experts. We [...]

THIS CONTENT IS OUT OF DATE! IF YOU’RE USING CAKE 2, YOU SHOULDN’T READ THIS. If you develop in PHP5 and you use Security::cipher in your CakePHP application – which is unlikely, since it’s an obscure function really only used by CookieComponent – and you also use PHP functions like rand() and array_rand(), you might notice an annoying bug: you’re [...]