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It’s Day #1 with Mozilla Lightning, and so far, so good!

I’ve stopped using Sunbird on one of my computers and am now using Lightning with Thunderbird. The big news is, alarms work! They never did in Sunbird, and a crazy Perl hack with cron job was all that did alarms and alerts for me previously…

Don’t get me wrong, Lightning needs work, but I’m hoping it gets the attention it needs and keep getting better. I’d start with adding in all the features Sunbird has that Lightning doesn’t.

See Also: Mozilla Lightning

If you’ve followed this weblog for a long time you’ll know I’ve mentioned my experiences with Mozilla Calendar, or more accurately, Mozilla Sunbird. It’s good to see people interested in Lightning.

Lightning has a way to go, but it’s a good start. I’ll be testing it as a replacement for Sunbird, and I’ll let you know what I come across in the process… MozillaZine already has some good comments about Lightning.

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!