Setting Up A New CakePHP Environment in Ubuntu

How to get around some common stumbling blocks when creating a new CakePHP development environment.

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Nasty Site Hack Leads to Phony Google Links

Came across a dirty (but interesting) website hack today. Essentially when a person googled their domain name they discovered hundreds and hundreds of phony links pointing to a sub-directory of their site. (With various explicitly charming descriptions). Clicking on these links displayed a page full of advertisements. Had a nose around the sub-directory in question [...]

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New Theme

I got a bit sick of the old fusion theme. The new theme is based on the Vigilance Theme by Jestro with some tweaks suggested in an excellent article by Dean Peters along with a couple of tweaks of my own. Header image is a photo I took atop the cliff at Silver Strand overlooking [...]

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