My Post-it interpretation of Shepard Fairey’s Obama campaign poster poster was such fun that I undertook another Post-it piece. This one is 10 feet high by 7.5 feet wide and used 12 different colors from 6 different stacks of Post-its for a total of 828 sheets. The black pixels are of course using the wall color. It took around 10 hours to put together. Click the photos below for more detail.

This time I won’t give away who it is. Can you guess? If so, please leave a comment below. Hint: The image is based on a GQ cover.

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So what do you do with a bunch of left over Post-its? Write a novel? Make a paper slinky? You could render the Shepard Fairey Obama print. I did this before a house warming in our new apartment. Many ideas were suggested for further Post-it work. We still have a bit of wall space left…so stay tuned.

This is part 2 of the Basic search with CakePHP where we’ll present the search criteria in a more user-friendly way. The files here build on part 1.

Here’s the working example.

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This problem makes me crazy every time I run into it. And the thing is, I know I’ve fixed it before and can never remember how. So I’m making this post as much for me as anyone else who may be stuck with losing URL parameters when a validation error occurs on a form.

Here’s a working demo.

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This will be a multi-part demonstration for building basic search functionality using CakePHP. Part 1 focuses on searching across models that have HasAndBelongsToMany relationships. Here’s a working demo of Part 1.

You see this type of search when looking for items that share similar properties. In the demo, it’s Bars that have Features (WiFi, TV, etc), Scenes (Lounge, Afterhours, etc) and Neighborhoods (Chelsea, Soho, etc). HABTM search is also useful for searching items that share Tags, Colors, Size, Flavor and on and on.

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