Month: October 2011
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My first mobile Hackathon experience
On Saturday October 15th 2011 I attended the ATT Mobile App Hackathon held at the AOL headquarters in Dulles Virginia. It was quite a drive for me to get there, on top on waking up early on a Saturday morning but I figured it was worth it, I was already on a roll attending the […]
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On expertise, self confidence and job hunting
Every time I go through a job search as I am going through right now, it is always surprising to me how much of an humbling experience it becomes. Reading job descriptions is a good way to quantify and effectively gauge what you have accomplished, that you might not even value as actual skill, and […]
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Set up JSON action output in CakePHP 1.3
Working on setting up the Rest Plugin for CakePHP helped me realize that i wanted to set up JSON output for some of my actions. This way, if you request for example “www.yourapp.com/app/post/view/1.json” in the url, you will be returned the JSON post data. This excellent tutorial here will help you achieve it. The steps […]