Against entropy.
The popular web framework Ruby on Rails has a core part called ActiveRecord. That is the ORM, the object-relational mapper, which lets you use your database records “as objects” in your code. With Rails, ActiveRecord is very powerful, but it’s not that bad on its own either. Here is an example of using it as …
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Hi folks. I’ve been busy pushing out a little micro-small shopping cart system, but multiple projects keep dragging on, and “project hang” locks me down. I am getting things done, but there’s just much of it all. Today I needed a smarter way of walking through a series of screens to “buy a certain product” …
Do you use a lot of time searching for the right information? I know I do. The meta-web-search site [FactBites](http://www.factbites.com/) can be a way of learning about stuff that you have an inkling of. Let’s take the word [monad](http://www.factbites.com/topics/Monad) and search for that: we get a rather extensive and eclectic list of stuff about different …
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Tobin, this one’s for you: Automated testing, with IE for .NET. Danish consultancy BestBrains have released IETest, > a .NET library for testing web sites through Microsoft Internet Explorer. It enables you to automate Internet Explorer to the point where you can perform automated testing without any human attention required.
[Dropload](http://www.dropload.com) is one of those services that are needed. Badly. I think this baby could be put to some good use. Right, Dad? This is the full text of their service description: > Dropload is a place for you to drop your files off and have them picked up by someone else at a later …
Release announcement for “cake_0.10.0.1217_alpha”, which is more stable than any other release. Most of all, this release is about making the developer experience more cohesive, and “orthogonal”. Method calls and return values look more or less the same everywhere, and when you grok how Cake hangs together, it becomes easier to make web apps. I …
Rejoice! A PEAR class for Danish numbers is now in alpha: Docs For Class Validate_DK are sparse, but you can see the four methods: * carReg * phoneNumber * postalCode * ssn I like this. One person, in this case Jesper Veggerby Hansen, can make a significant contribution to the Open Source world. [An article](http://asay.blogspot.com/2005/09/analyst-nature-and-size-of-open-source.html) …
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OK, if I say it here, then some people might not miss it: Using Markdown with Cake PHP. It’s not so much a Howto as it is a mention of Markdown.
CakeForge is “dedicated to projects being developed with CakePHP”. A [GForge](https://gforge.org/) installation to hold all kindsa projects. Think of SourceForge. Same thing. It looks like things will get better and better.
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 …