Coffeerings Articles

Making Life Easier

The best utilities are the ones you don't even realise are there, they sit there doing their job, beavering away without complaint. These utilities are rarely interesting as a broad concept, that's why they were created - to prev...read more

Weeding out the apps

I need an iPhone app to help with a fairly specific task, a quick search results in 55 apps, some seemingly fitting the criteria and some completely off topic. Which one do I choose? How do I quickly filter through 55 application...read more

jQuery 1.3 Beta 1 - live()!

There are some pretty nice things in the latest beta release of jquery but the live() method is my favorite. Event handling has been limited to existing DOM elements without implicitly 're-attaching' the listeners in the callback...read more

Help? Zend Framework. Anyone. Please?

Swear this should be straight forward or even an 'out the box' feature but how the hell do you map actions in your default controller to a base url using the Zend Framework?  Trying to map domain.com/index/my-pag...read more

Serving Cache using Lighttpd

Lighttpd is widely know as a powerful lightweight server that is particularly useful at serving static content.  With this in mind I migrated the responsibility of serving images on alltrad...read more