Category Archives: api

Google translation utilities

March 21, 2008 – 5:07 pm

I was going to use the global translator plugin for my translation needs, but this two has a couple of problems:

It tends to make Google (and other sites) suspect that it is a virus, so they stop supplying translation services.
It uses the translations services in a deceitful manner. Parsing the translation response, removing links etc.

The […]

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The next big thing…

March 18, 2008 – 4:10 pm

That’s actually what we do here at NZfusion; working on the next big thing… it’s hard out and many people don’t get the next big thing. Not like us anyhow. So I thought I’d share a few of the ingredients that we believe is important.
You shouldn’t mistake the list as conclusive, exclusive or even necessary; […]

By James Little | Also posted in framework, json, open standards, php, project management, rss, web2.0, websites, whizzoo, xml | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (1)

CakePHP 1.2.0.6311 beta blog tutorial

February 24, 2008 – 2:26 pm

I couldn’t get the current stable version to work online, I think this is because of our .htaccess rules, subdomains and virtual hosting solution - but who knows…
Luckily, I stumbled (not using stumble, but Google) upon a post describing similar issues relating to sub-domain. This post discribed a bug fix, but also mentioned in an […]

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Building an interactive website using CakePHP - Part 1

February 19, 2008 – 12:00 pm

Step 0:
For starters, I am following the example - building a blog using CakePHP in the CakePHP Manual. From there I’ll make it do what I want, but I’ll also want to add other functionality. That will likely take a while, so you’ll have to wait. Part 1 covers the development done on day […]

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Google addicted to making my life more interesting?

November 5, 2007 – 8:50 pm

Well perhaps not my life specifically… but Open Social this week… Android and the open handset alliance next week (November 12 will be the release of the SDK).
Ok Open social perhaps wasn’t as exciting as I might as hoped, others also feel it was a little over hyped. But it is still an open API […]

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