The rapid development Framework [CakePHP](http://cakephp.org) yesterday made an [announcement](http://cakephp.org/pages/announcement) that its latest and greatest version ever, the eagerly awaited 0.10, has arrived. This release has a new folder structure, which means that users of the framework will have to fiddle with their existing apps once more to get them up to bleeding-edge status. I started …
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RPG Patterns book released under CC license!
Role-playing games now have their own [pattern language](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_language) (Wikipedia’s defintion is great) book. Fascinating stuff! In computer science there is a book called [Design Patterns](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201633612/104-0265062-8435910?v=glance), which is a spin-off of the architecture book A Pattern Language. Both are classics. Now a person called **Whitson John Kirk III** has written 250+ pages in a CC-licensed PDF …
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“Svindyrt ringa mobilt över Sundet”
Det är svindyrt ringa mobilt över Sundet, enligt vetenskapligt test. Öresundsinstitutet testade att sända SMS och ringa lite: > DÃ¥ framkom att 45 procent av bÃ¥de svenskarna och danskarna tycker att de höga samtalskostnaderna utgör ett större problem än eventuella kulturella hinder eller sprÃ¥kproblem. Ja, det är svindyrt. [VoipBuster](http://www.voipbuster.com) kanske kan vara nÃ¥got? Gratis till …
Fixing horrible websites
Sometimes the choices someone else did in their CSS does not suit you. Often, you give up, never to come back to their site, or fiddle with the size of your browser window. Using Firefox and its [Developer Toolbar](http://chrispederick.com/work/webdeveloper/) extension by Chris Pedrick, I have now gotten around to using my own stylesheets (with small …
Greg Costikyan resigns from Nokia, starts up company
Games designer Greg Costikyan has resigned from his position at Nokia, and started a new company, [Manifesto Games](http://manifestogames.com/). It aims to provide “a viable path to market for independent developers, and a more effective way of marketing and distributing niche PC game styles to gamers.” A fine motto: > “PC Gamers of the World Unite! …
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CakePHP : a rapid development framework :: Downloads
Now Cake has nightlies on the Downloads page. Enjoy it!
Dogs in the Vineyard, the Vision
Dogs in the Vineyard, the Vision is a story about how the game “DitV” came into its own: became itself. Oh, I am moved. Take a load of this > I have wanted to contact you ever since I bought the game. As a member of the LDS faith, an avid role-player, a student of …
Neologism: “Podmenting” (augment media using podcast)
O’Reilly tech dude Rael Dornfest is also a Battlestar Galactica fan, I take it. He tips us off to **a podcast you can watch in tandem with the TV episodes**. The producers have used this “small parts loosely coupled” methodology to give fans more than they can cram onto DVD’s (that are on tight shipping …
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Do ride your bike to work
Peter rides his bike 1.9 km (in about 8 mins). This is a first, and I am much-pleased that others do this, too. Makes all kinds of sense. I don’t need to go through the plusses of going around on bikes. Just start with it.
Nikolaj is living through tags
[Nikolaj Nyholm](http://nyholm.net/decibel/), a Copenhagen resident, alpha geek and a guy who seems to rack up Frequent Flier points like crazy, blogs about “Living through tags”, a rather fine extension of using del.icio.us and other tagging services as a “data context” for places you are going or living in. > New (temporary) subscriptions today: vesterbro (well, …