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I’ve been meaning to try Ruby on Rails, not because I like Ruby, or even use Ruby, but the Rails framework is supposed to be the big payoff there. But now there’s CakePHP (and other frameworks) that try to do the RoR thing in PHP.

So far I’ve just worked through the CakePHP Wiki’s blog_tutorial_-_1, which all made sense, though I was very disappointed to see GET’s deleting data… Didn’t we learn this is bad? (GET and HEAD methods SHOULD NOT have the significance of taking an action other than retrieval) In the apps I build, the ‘delete’ is typically a GET request to a page that then does a delete via a POST. That might not be perfect, but it works, and adds a confirmation to data deletion that most users seem to appreciate. (Ok, it looks like there is a Javascript confirmation at delete with the blog_tutorial_-_1 code, but in my opinion, that isn’t enough.)

Other than that little data deleting issue, CakePHP looks interesting, and I’ll dig in a bit deeper and see what it can do.

In Extreme Snoring I suggested you might want to use the recording to “annoy the neighbors” or some such nonsense. Well, today I got an email:

I just had to say thanks for the snoring sample. Its a work of art and couldnt have been found at a more opportune time for me. I am having probs with the neighbor and they just refuse to stop being a-holes and just leave me alone. On top of that the neighbor lady has a bad snoring problem, so bad I swear she is in the bed with me. She seems to think that the walls are super thick and no sound goes thru but she is wrong and thanks to your snoring sound sample I look forward to letting the neighbor know just how well sound travels. Thanks again and have a good one. :)

I’m glad my ailment could be of use to someone. I may have to record more of the annoying sounds I make. (There are many!)

I afford myself few luxuries in life, but one thing I don’t skimp on is yogurt. We eat only Stonyfield Farm’s Yogurt here at RasterWeb World HQ and we make no apoligies for that…

But last week something happened. While enjoying a nice cup of strawberry yogurt, I found a small leaf shaped thingy. I was a bit concerned, and immediately went to their contact page to let them know what happened.

Later in the day I got an email apology, and a note about some coupons they were going to be sending me. Hooray for Stonyfield! I’m guessing I’m not the only fan, as 1/2 the time I stop by the supermarket, they are low on supply. Keep up the good work Stonyfield!

I used Interarchy back when it was Anarchie, and I even bought two version of 6.2 years ago, and sometimes I use them! (Mostly I used the command line for scp and sftp, but now and then, a graphical client is nice.)

Anyway, I was dismayed after trying it on one of my Macs (still running Mac OS X 10.3.9) to see it didn’t work. It would not connect to servers using sftp. I took a quick look around and found an Interarchy Users Group that had two posts that seemed to mention the problem I was having. The weird thing was, command line sftp was fine, but Interarchy was not. I tried Fugu and that did the right thing… puzzling…

I then remembered that I upgraded ssh last year. Aha! It seems Interarchy was using /usr/bin/ssh and not /usr/local/bin/ssh. A quick symlink set everything right.

If you need a graphical client, Interarchy is very nice. The copies I bought were dirt cheap years ago due to some expo special or something. If you want free, Fugu is pretty nice too…

We’ve got an internal wiki, which now holds tons and tons of valuable information. Recently navigation links were added to many pages, offsite things, other stuff, etc. and I realized that this was probably done for the “common user” and by that I guess I’m calling myself the “uncommon user” which seems odd, because I’m sure I’m one of the top two people who have created and edited pages, and pretty much always have at least one tab open with a wiki page loaded.

My own wiki usage in finding (not creating) pages consists of two things: the Recent Changes page and searching. I hit Recent Changes to see what is new, and do a search for almost everything else. All the sidenav links are wasted on me, and actually pushed the two features I used the most (Recent Changes and searching) way down the page. Argh… It makes me feel all 37signalish and almost makes me want to focus the wiki’s usability on me. (I know better than those pesky users, right?)