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PswGen is lagging a little…
With apologies to those of you who’ve complained that PswGen hasn’t kept up with Firefox updates.
First Rails, now Cake!
After my brief flirt with Ruby on Rails (see previous post), I decided to have a play with CakePHP too. A similar concept, implemented slightly differently, with (obviously) PHP doing the heavy lifting rather than Ruby. So what’s the skinny? According to book.cakephp.org, CakePHP is a free, open-source, rapid development framework for PHP. It’s a [...]
Riding the Rails
I had a little work project to do recently, a simple online database-updater. Nothing fancy, two small related tables, fairly standard master/detail stuff. So just for a giggle (and ‘coz I’m a geek) I thought I’d take RoR for a test-drive. Woohoo what a ride! Within about 15 minutes, following an online tutorial, I’d installed [...]
Yes, please!
Healthier Smoking!
Not ready to completely give up, but sick of the smell and expense of cigarettes? And of course the fact that you’re not allowed to smoke anywhere you might want to? Then try these: Electronic cigarettes that deliver your nicotine hit just the way you like it. Without actually producing any smoke. So there’s no [...]
