lloydhome consulting

Help Wanted

nospam@example.com (David Lloyd) — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:51:05 -0500

Lloydhome Consulting, Inc. has immediate opportunities for several renewable fixed-length contract positions. We are seeking highly motivated individuals that work well on a team and on their own. You will be a part of an established successful team of developers working on high profile and exciting web applications for one of the world's foremost telecommunication company's intranet. Telecommuting and teleworking opportunities are possible.

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FlySpray Rocks

nospam@example.com (David Lloyd) — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:53:17 -0500

I have used many defect tracking systems over the years but FlySpray is the best.

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Recursive Association Support in CakePHP

nospam@example.com (David Lloyd) — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 10:49:34 -0500

We have all been there. A simple query but the query condition is three joins away. Now I don't have to build a large custom query.

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More Caching in CakePHP

nospam@example.com (David Lloyd) — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:40:00 -0500

I have a user portal that gathers information from multiple controllers. The logic belongs in those controllers. The portal obtains these viewlets via requestAction() calls. RequestAction is notoriously slow and had no chance of using the view cache - until now.

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Smart Caching in CakePHP

nospam@example.com (David Lloyd) — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:27:00 -0500

CakePHP's view caching can dramatically reduce the load on your server
and decrease page load time. I have several requirements that has kept
me from using Cake's caching - until now.

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