Since this is the week Windows 7 is getting released and I’m hosting a Windows 7 Party, I thought it would be great to share some of my favorite new features in Windows 7 with my readers.
Windows Update in Windows 7. Do you remember XP Windows Update? You always had to go through Internet Explorer [...]
I was working with my User model in my Users controller. I wanted to store the profile_id inside of the users table. It should’ve worked like this.
Save a user in the users table: $this->User->save($this->data);
Save a profile in the profiles table: $this->User->Profile->($this->data);
Update the same user in the user table with the just made profile id.
And of [...]
I have a last_login field in my user model and I needed to update it whenever the user would login. Of course cakephp should make this ridiculously easy and straightforward, you know, a single call to updateField would be nice, but that doesn’t exist. So here’s how to update a single field with a datetime type (mysql) [...]
This morning I was excited to see a new layout on the Google Chrome start page.
The new look is cleaner than the previous iteration. You now get to see eight thumbnails instead of nine. Each thumbnail has a slight gray border and hovered over, it darkens and eventually, about 1.5 seconds in to hovering, a [...]
The blog was just upgraded to the newest release of Wordpress, 2.7 RC 1! Over 250 commits to the trunk between beta 3 and RC 1.
I can’t say too much about Wordpress 2.7 RC 1 right now since I just started using it but I have discovered a number of other goodies.
Updating Wordpress 2.7 Beta [...]
Today, I replaced my Wordpress 2.6.3 installation with a fresh copy of the newest beta in the Wordpress 2.7 branch. Let me say that it’s excellent.
It’s pretty fancy. The left-navigation bar that is collapsible is a bit confusing at first, but after looking at the useful tool tips, it’s sensible. I still don’t understand how plugins [...]
Currently, the next version of Wordpress is in it’s second beta, 2.7. With 2.7, there are plenty of updates to User Interface for administration. Looking at the beta screen shots and video, it’s pretty neat. Here’s what I noticed.
Fancy Sidebar – It is collapsible but also it’s much more oriented to learn the icon and [...]
Over the weekend some of the bugs in the Fluff Grabber have been fixed. Some were javascript bugs and others were back end bugs that were hard to pin down until recently. Here’s the break down.
Javascript
The javascript bugs in the fluff grabber didn’t stop anyone from using the system. However they did annoy me and [...]