I don’t use this pattern every day, but when I do need it, I always have to look into earlier project trying to find what I need to apply to my current objective-c prosject in order to do this.

Not anymore because I made this template:

I needed to add an button to the right of the section header in an UITableView (grouped style), and I wanted to keep the default style of the headers. The result was good:

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After some years away from any Cocoa and Objective-C development (my last build of Worktimer was in 2007) I started looking into the iOS development in November last year. Sadly I was busy writing another web application during the winter, but in this spring and summer I finally was able to submit some apps to AppStore.

Bike Meter was my first app, and its a simple utility to calculate your training zones in cycling. In the other app Surdeig I was trying out the “Universal Application” targeting both iPhone and iPads in a single bundle.

The workflow with iOS apps is nice and pretty stright forward, compared to web-apps where the development process involving everything from server-side, databases, php and frontend stuff like HTHML, CSS and JS. Not to mention the deployment..

In Netmaking where I work, we work with an Open Source CMS/framework named eZ Publish which has community and business partners in many parts of the world. Every year these partners gather on eZ Summer Conferance to learn new things about the framework, meet each other and to see who gets the glorious eZ Awards. This year it all happened in Berlin.

Draggable and Droppable in jQuery UI is very handy, but if you are adding new draggable items to your DOM tree on the fly, they will not work since the events is binded when the document is created. jQuery Live comes to rescue, but how do you use it jQuery.live?

The answer is to add the draggable behavior when the user first mouse over the item. To avoid binding the behavior twice we a init check:

Some years have gone since I wrote the last version of Worktimer, but know I am back in the Mac development business again, working with Objective-C and the Cocoa and UIKit framework.

Inspired by the Ez publish’s way to embed images inside rich text fields, this CakePHP code takes the same principle in the true CakePHP way, with two helpers to extend David Persson’s Media Plugin.

Growing number of web applications and multiple numbers of user accounts can be a headache for the end user. Luckily the big players have started to agree on standards that makes the personal information flow between these services.

After struggling with doing a basic filter pattern on my new Portfolio section, I found the clues I needed in this tutorial. Here is the basic function.

function index($cat = null) {


	
	if($cat == null) {
		// If no category chosen, just use the basic paginate function
		$portfolios = $this->paginate();
	} else {
		// Set basic params with conditions form $this->paginate
		$params = array(
			‘contain’ => false,
			‘fields’ => array(‘DISTINCT (Portfolio.id) as id’),
			‘conditions’ => $this->paginate[‘conditions’],
			‘joins’ => array()
		);

	
		// Add the search on the habtm relations table
		$joins1 = array(
			‘table’ => $this->Portfolio->tablePrefix.‘portfolios_categories_portfolios’,
			‘alias’ => ‘CategoriesPortfolio’,
			‘type’ => ‘inner’,
			‘foreignKey’ => false,
			‘conditions’=> array(‘CategoriesPortfolio.portfolio_id = Portfolio.id’)
		);
		$joins2 = array(
			‘table’ => $this->Portfolio->tablePrefix.‘portfolios_categories’,
			‘alias’ => ‘Category’,
			‘type’ => ‘inner’,
			‘foreignKey’ => false,
			‘conditions’=> array(
			‘Category.id = CategoriesPortfolio.category_id’,
			‘Category.slug’ => $cat
			)
		);
		array_push($params[‘joins’], $joins1);
		array_push($params[‘joins’], $joins2);

	
		$tmp = array();
		foreach ($this->Portfolio->find(‘all’, $params) as $row) {
			array_push($tmp, $row[‘Portfolio’][‘id’]);
		}	
		// Final paginate query with the Portfolio ID’s as ‘scope’
		$portfolios = $this->paginate(null, array(‘Portfolio.id’ => $tmp));
	}
	// Send var to the view
	$this->set(‘portfolios’, $portfolios);

}

Finally I managed to get my new homepage ready. I have been working on building the logic I needed since spring, but with the ironman season and my involvement of the new homepage for Norseman Xtreme triathlon I got a little delay.