The Tomek Tutorials
July 10 2011, 6:42 PM
Recently stumbled across these excellent little tutorials from FarCry developer Tomek.
The FarCry profiling API that became available with FC6.0.6 is a godsend for figuring out why some pages load slowly. For example, I have a couple of ‘displayTypeBody’ pages that load in 7 seconds, while normal HTML pages generally load in less than 0.3 seconds. Huge difference!Recently I was tasked with creating a “duplicate” button for the event type in FarCry. It turns out that while adding a button is actually easy, the hard part was ensuring that the rest of the default buttons didn’t disappear.Recently, I have had the need to programmatically reload type metadata for a specific type in FarCry. Since I’m usually working on a dev copy on my laptop (which is underpowered), I don’t want to take the time to reset all the types together. This is especially useful if you need to do something similar...
Enjoy!
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Sep 4 2011, 12:58 PMTomek responded:Thanks for the shoutout! I've bundled the tutorials under a series, which you can see here: http://kott.fm/tomek/series/farcry-tutorials/. I've also added a new one, on creating a view of all the categories and their content. You can find that here: http://kott.fm/tomek/2011/09/04/automatic-category-lists-in-farcry-a-la-wordp...