Author Archives: Jimmi Westerberg

Cycle through history in linux/mac terminal

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Jimmi Westerberg

If you are like me, you often use the terminal for… well.. let’s face it, most things. I cannot remember one day, when i’m not bashing the keys in the terminal, trying to find, script or copy my way out …

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WPML, what is the current language?

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Jimmi Westerberg

While building a wordpress theme that has multilingual support, I needed to know what the current language was for fixing some static parts of my template. After searching a bit on the WPML site, I found a code example where …

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Using link_to in rails with :confirm and :method

Posted on May 27, 2010 by Jimmi Westerberg

Every time i’m going to use the link_to method in rails, I always seem to get a lot of errors. The documentation states: link_to(name, options = {}, html_options = nil) link_to(options = {}, html_options = nil) do # name end …

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Fixing symlinks in Mac OS 10 + built in Apache

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Jimmi Westerberg

The other night I was fiddling about with my macbook, trying to setup a “MySQL-Apache-PHP” server on my system. Digging a bit about the system and googling a bit, it seems that the system comes with a built in apache server and php installation.

I thought to myself, why not use the built in server instead of installing a MAMP package?

Anyways, seconds went by and I found the option in the system preferences, turned on “web sharing” and excitedly headed on to localhost. It worked perfectly, now I just needed to set it up as it was on my linux desktop.

The apache’s httpd.conf file is located in the folder: /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf
(I used textmate to edit the file.)

What I wanted to do was, since I’m the only user on this laptop, I wanted my Sites folder to have a www “folder”, which was a symlink to a folder in my Documents folder. The symlink would then point to the webapp I was currently coding.

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(php) php-mvc-base project released

Posted on April 12, 2010 by Jimmi Westerberg

Whenever I create a new PHP project I use a certain base structure.
This structure allows me to have pretty URLs and have a nice way of configuring the database connections. Furthermore this structure also allows me to use a form of plugins in my system.

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Hooking up Ctrl+S using JS+Prototypejs

Posted on February 26, 2010 by Jimmi Westerberg

Did you ever find yourself in a position where having Ctrl+S hooked up as an event would be great? Well I have and doing a fast search on google gave me this page OpenJs.com – Keyboard shortcuts.
While this page is great, I needed to have a script that was written in prototypejs, since this is what we use at work (It’s a left over from the early Rails days, where prototypejs was tha bomb).

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(php) flash-message plugin

Posted on February 9, 2010 by Jimmi Westerberg

For a long time I’ve wanted a way to send messages from my controller to my view, when posting data. The message could be “Your update went well” or some error.

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Use Rails’ form_tag with care

Posted on January 27, 2010 by Jimmi Westerberg

Today at work I was fiddling with some forms in an admin interface. When I had to make an update form, the data didn’t hit the correct controller action.

If you ever get the message ActionController::MethodNotAllowed, then you’ve created your form wrong!

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(php) Paginate component

Posted on January 17, 2010 by Jimmi Westerberg

After removing CakePHP from my site, I really missed having pagination on it. So I created a small PHP component I’ve called Paginate and I’ve released it over on github: http://github.com/jimmiw/php-paginate.

It’s designed to be easy to use (only 3 lines of code!), and the output should be easy to style.

I hope you enjoy it

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You gotta design!

Posted on January 11, 2010 by Jimmi Westerberg

After seeing a tweet from @smashingmag about designing a small piece of graphics everyday, I and @janusclemmensen decided to try it out.

Here is my contribution for day11:
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