Latest Thoughts From Mental Ramblings

Auth ACL -- A Complete Solution

t73 — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:17:13 -0400

Well It's been some time since I wrote a decent blog entry, so to make up for it, and to help explain the time that has passed, I'm offering a complete ACL/Auth Soultion that has been used by me n several production sites so far, and I intend to continue using for more time to come.

Take it easy... bake a cake and REST

t73 — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:37:29 -0400

So I get updates when a new issue of PHP Architect is ready for download. Great resource. Browsing around their site I happened to come along a section entitled: REST and Resource Handling With CakePHP

Battle Star Galactica

t73 — Sat, 10 May 2008 11:26:47 -0400

Recently, I went to http://scifi.com/bsg/ and joined an online game to play as part of the BSG Community. It's web based, and pretty interesting. There are various tasks to accomplish, that pay out in Cubits, the currency of BSG, that you can use to "Pimp Your Viper".

BlackBerry Blog

t73 — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:59:33 -0500

So I got a new phone yesterday. Can you guess what kind?

Interesting Conversation with MySql Lead Developer

t73 — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:32:13 -0500

I just finished reading a short interview with MySQL's Jim Starkey, who is a Senior Software Architect for MySql. The future for MySql, and in turn CakePHP looks very Good!

Using jQuery in CakePHP 1.2

t73 — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:59:58 -0500

Recently, I was challenged by someone in the #cakephp chat room to try the jQuery javascript library. Here are my results.

CakePHP Ajax Comments

t73 — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:28:21 -0500

Recently, in a post regaurding site improvements, there was a comment request from Lecterror for the ajax comments I used in my blog system.

Mental Ramblings Gets Fed

t73 — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:51:09 -0500

In a recent post I had described the way to implement an xml sitemap generator for search engines, using the CakePHP XML Help with RequestHandler Component. I have tweaked that slightly to implement rss feeds for the posts.

Mental Ramblings Moves To Remote CVS

t73 — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:54:44 -0500

Well it's something I have wanted to setup for a while now. CVS for the site is going to be very helpful, especially as I move into tougher areas with adding features to the site.

Automated Sitemap Generation With CakePHP 1.2

t73 — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:56:13 -0500

One of the most important things for a website is to be indexed by search engines. When I changed mine over to CakePHP 1.2, I had found out that my sitemap.xml was missing. Well rather than take the time to manually do the sitemap each time I made a new posting, I decided to look for an automated solution.

Site Improvements Continue

t73 — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:54:11 -0500

In an attempt to make this a more function blog system, I have in added in some new features.The hardest to implement was the comments system, even though it would seem that it would be easy. The reason that it was difficult was due to the fact that I wanted to have the comments system update right away using Ajax.

Mental Ramblings Site Gets a Makeover

t73 — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:29:11 -0500

As an avid user and supporter of CakePHP, I had felt compelled for some time to switch the site from Wordpress to a custom CakePHP Blog setup. We'll look at the advantages and disadvantages of building your own custom blog.

CakePHP 1.2 ACL/Auth The Quest Continues

t73 — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:39:22 -0500

In a recent post, I had stated that my ACL Quest was complete. Now it continues. Based upon http://realm3.com/articles/setting_up_user_groups_with_acl_and_auth_in_cakephp_1.2 I have started a continuation of the previous Quest.

CakePHP Get's a Hometown?

t73 — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:14:28 -0500

That's right folks! CakePHP has it's own hometown. Established by Mariano Iglesias it as of today has 66 people in it's population. To visit it goto http://cakephp.myminicity.com/ and help raise the population!

CakePHP 1.2 with ACL Auth, A quest complete

t73 — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 22:59:57 -0500

I decided to convert this over to a system I could use with http://4thofjulyfireworks.info , a site that I own. Having the need to still contend with the AUTH component of Cakephp 1.2 I started a quest to find more information.

Back to Basics

t73 — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 05:18:54 -0400

My Life as a computer geek started a long time ago, when computers only talked to each other via foot-net or if you were in a Goverment Facility. Even then, text based games were very cool, and not too common.

Brain Stuff

mistymin — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:55:07 -0400

More Brain Stuff . . . From Cambridge . University

PlaneT73 :: Come get a slice of MUD Cake!

t73 — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:33:10 -0400

In a flurry of typing and sketchy thoughts, I have come up with a new take on the old model of web based RPG's

3d Program flow modeling in Second Life via LSL

t73 — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:12:49 -0400

In a program's lifecycle, UML plays a very important role throughout the entire span of the program's life. It is most heavily used in the beginning of the program's starting stages, if it is used at all.

The Coup De Grace of my life with Windows

t73 — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:27:45 -0400

Old Hat to Linux and windows. (I won't use terms like winbloze/blows, windoze, micro$oft, microsoviet or any other variants in this post. Perhaps in the future.)Even though there are now many variants of *nix available on the market, I was never really able to fully commit to a version of Linux I liked. That is until Ubuntu came along. There have been many advances in the last few years that have really improved my liking for Ubuntu and Linux in General.

Hello world!

t73 — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:37:45 -0400

Yes indeed! Hello World! I have often wondered where the "Hello world" sample style of programming has originated from.