Jan 4, 2009 Posted by Kjell

Runtime – Get various system infos (UPDATE)

In my recent post i talked about the Environment class and how to use it to switch databases with ease. Today i paid the blog of Neil Crookes a visit and found his most recent post to be of the same nature. How to make life easier with using environment variables in config/bootstrap. In a comment Daniel Hofstetter was suggesting to encapsulate his env-tests into a class, and that’s what i basicly... read more

Jan 3, 2009 Posted by Kjell

CakePHP Logging and the MacOSX dashboard

Here’s a hint for all you mac bakers: If you use the debug and error log files in your “tmp” directory or not. There is a very handy widget that helps you to keep track of their contents. It’s called tailDash and basicly shows a black tinted window containing the last X lines of a file. Hence the name “tail” which is probably known to linux console users. You can have... read more