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 …
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The end of the world is nigh. Newspeak is rife.
I heard the news today. That’s because I get up earlier. Part of a program of working smarter. On the news was a single Reuters story, just spoken from the telegram, no commentary or anything, this was “the news”. It was a note on that the Defense Ministry of the United States of America are …
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Humour from Mr Gruber
Author of Markdown, and strange Mac funniness man: Gruber. Daring Fireball: The iTunes 5 Announcement From the Perspective of an Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal User Interface Theme
Holy Modal Rounders’s naming, and Jeff Minter in repose
In the Wikipedia article on the geniuses of Holy Modal Rounders they have something profound on naming, a subject dear to programmers: > As regards the name, Peter Stampfel explained in Perfect Sound Forever: “We kept changing the name. First it was the Total Quintessence Stomach Pumpers. Then the Temporal Worth High Steppers. Then The …
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PEAR news: Validate_DK validates Danish numbers
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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Using Markdown with Cake
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: A place for the apps
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.
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 …