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Collective intelligence is a shared or group intelligence that emerges from the collaboration and competition of many individual. Some examples would be Amazon's book recommendations. Netflix uses collective intelligence to track their stock and supply changes, and more accurately allocate their resources.

Recommendations requires something to track like sales, or user preferences. A group of users is also required, the larger the group the ...

CakePHP | CakeFest | Collective Intelligence

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Lighttpd runs as one thread there are no forks, and only one thread. Lighttp is not good for large virtualhosts. It also bottlenecks on the disk speed. It is however good, when you have a single large application or need to total control.

Lighttpd has several modules that are analogous to Apache such as Rewrite, Auth, Expires etc.

Configuration files in lighttpd are very dynamic and allow for variables, regular expressions and if blocks.

B...

CakePHP | CakeFest | Lighttpd

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Garret's talk focused on getting command line tools setup. Before getting started on that he covered how to setup a virtual host for a cake project. Once he got into the cake shell, he covered the basic core shells and how to call shells.

Garret then used bake to create a new project and a database config file. Using cake bake project and cake bake db_config.

Up next was creating a schema file with cake schema generate. The schema file was...

CakePHP | CakeFest | console

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Mariano is presenting about creating a complete website with a framework. Specifically Mariano will be talking the CakeFest site. This should help to show how to apply the theories that have been talked about up to today and throughout the rest of the week. cakefest.org was developed for the first Cakefest, it is multi-user, multi-event, multi-language application, that was needed to scale for mulitple events. It was built with Themes, Beha...

CakePHP | PHP | CakeFest

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Nate started with a brief history of computation, starting with the abacus. And progressing to PHP and covering the presence of bad PHP and Perl code.

The good and bad of frameworks

Frameworks can help inexperienced developers write better code, however a framework can also be used in a black box context. As a tool that you use, you should try to understand how and why it works. Having a blackbox is not going to help you get better. If y...

CakePHP | PHP

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Felix is a huge git fan and Git is a source version control application. It is a command line tool, and there are not many gui tools. Git has a few advantages, it is easier to integrate with other tools. Git also doesn't require a server, allowing you to work locally. Unlike svn there is only one .git folder and it contains the entire project history.

Configuring git

Before using git you should configure git with git config. You should c...

CakePHP | Git | version control

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When html started being 'designed' presentation and structure muddled together and there was little semantic meaning attached. This html soup was found everywhere, even big sites like yahoo and google. Later styling and content was separated, making maintenance easier and making room to introduce of semantics. And while semantic markup works well for people. It doesn't help the computer understand the syntax and semantics of the information. ...

CakePHP | Microformats

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Why would you want to create RESTful application interface? A webservice/RESTFUL interface will allow you to create a public interface that allows 3rd party sites to integrate with your applications. RESTful API's allow you to provide open services for your customers. This helps customers by giving them choice in what service they use, and reduces a customer's feeling of being locked into one service. By providing open access to data through...

REST | CakePHP

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