CakePHP with Automagic RSS is sweet but before you run off and install it by following the instructions found on the bakery page. You should be aware of a few issues. One make sure all your PHP Views, Models, and Controllers are space free. I would suggest saving them as UTF-8 no ?BOMS?. One space will kill your rss feed (puts the fun bus up on blocks) and it can be extremely difficult to track down depending where you are at in your application development process. You should also be aware that the FeedCreator.class.php has some minor changes you might want to make. I would make sure all the encoding is done in UTF-8 for consistency. The class currently contains instructions for encoding in ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-15. I would simply do a search and change them to UTF-8. Then you can enjoy all of the benefits of using the feedcreator class! Feedcreator makes it a breeze in PHP to create RSS 0.91, 1.0 or 2.0, ATOM 0.3 and OPML 1.0 feeds!
Well I have been very busy working on my blogging engine. I have made great progress! The basic blogging engine is working and I am currently working on special features that utilize various apis… Think mash-up. I currently have many working examples. I will need to add a great deal of polish because it is still very rough but it is getting their! I can give you access if you request it. It will be a “web 3.0 application”..
I have also installed the gusty gibbon and it flys. It has the best support for graphics cards out of the box, I have ever seen on Linux. It is lightning fast and wonderful to use in general. So if you have not tried out ubuntu yet I strongly suggest giving it a try it. I thought Fiesty Fawn was great but the latest version of Ubnutu is by far the easiest to use and most efficient version yet.
Well it?s official I am no longer a consultant at infoUSA now I am the graphical user interface developer for SalesGenie. This of course keeps me extremely busy. I have also been busy learning all the ins and outs of .NET and C#. I have been busy reading numerous books on OOP (object oriented programming). I have also decided that I need to transition all my applications to my own CMS. I have decided that many of the open source solutions simply will not do what it is that I want them to do. So I have been spending much of my time using the CakePHP framework. It was a tough decision. I do like Ruby on Rails but I believe there are more benefits of using a PHP based framework. I love Drupal, Mambo, and Wordpress, you may wonder why I have chosen to spend time to create my own CMS, because all the current CMS are spaghetti code. I am tiered of trying to fix problems. I really like what CakePHP has to offer here are some of the numerous benefits of using CakePHP, Model View Controller, Scaffolding, Service Oriented Architecture is easy to setup, you can easily create RSS feeds, AMFPHP, SWX, just to mention a few. I have also been intrigued lately by IBM?s project QEDwiki. I believe by using CakePHP I will be able to accomplish my goals quicker. I have also been working on creating MashUPs.
It has been a good summer we recently hosted a German Foreign Exchange student and it was a blast. It was sad to see Stefe leave but Lisa and I plan on going to Germany to see her hopefully within the next year. I do believe we Americanized Stefe and we definitely showed here how cool Omaha is. While Stefe was here we took her camping in South Dakota (oh and the Corn Palace was a blast), Taco Riding, Bar hoping (Sullivan's and of course the Homey Inn), Henry Dourly Zoo, etc?. Please feel free to check out the German Period in my scrapbook.
In recent news Littleton Alston completed his ?On to the Wings of Angles? sculpture. I was very pleased to see it dedicated on September 11, 2007. I actually helped cast (small help in the project) many of the hands that were used to create the globe on the sculpture. It is a truly beautiful work of art and the public is of course overwhelmingly happy with it. I really enjoy Littletons work and it is obvious why he is one of the best sculptors in the Midwest. I am proud to be a part of the project and seeing the sculpture in Omaha is a constant reminder of hard work, dedication, community, a monument to the people who lost their lives..
Oh and by the way looks like apple iphone is going very well for them rumor has it apple will be releasing a mini-tablet, umpc, or you know Newton 2.0 who knows if it is true or not. I honestly could see more small devices from them working out well. They do seem to have a very good eco system developed around their products. I have recently switched to IBM's Lotus Symphony! You know they are joining the open source community. Once you use lotus you might not want to go back to office check out the interface:
It is a good stable product that will definetly help out the open source community.
Flash News: Have you seen Sandy 3.0? Check it out you can even import a .wrl file. I think Sandy 3d is an excelent library. Flash has been becoming a 3d boom town. There are numerous code examples of importing .wad files and quake maps just look around. I will go into more detail when I get a chance at stArcade9.com.
Create database driven flash applications quickly? I know it almost seems an oxymoron. Anyone who has ever dealt with flash and all the efforts to create flash applications knows exactly what I am talking about. I suggest using the following in recipe to create flash driven php applications.
So what is AMFPHP??
"AMFPHP is an open-source Flash Remoting gateway. It's fast, reliable, 100% free and open-source. Flash Remoting is a technology built into the Flash player core that enables sending data between the server and the client seemlessly. If you've built XML-based RIAs you know how much of a pain it can be to serialize the data, debug, and integrate into your application.With Flash Remoting, you can call remote methods from the Flash client and the arguments will end up in the native remote language, and will come back to Flash correctly typed, so there's no messing with serialization at all.
You also get to use the wonderful NetConnection debugger, which shows you exactly what's being sent between the client and server. Remoting uses AMF, a very lightweight binary format that cuts the bulk out of packets, meaning data exchange is a lot faster than with XML. All in all, Remoting is the way to go if you're looking to build robust, fast and secure Rich Internet Applications.
AMFPHP is a complete implementation of Remoting for PHP with tons of features built-in to make creating Remoting apps a whole lot simpler. A distinguishing feature of AMFPHP is the built-in service browser, which you can test out live here , which makes testing asynchronous apps and generating stub code a click away. You can read more about why AMFPHP and Remoting rock . Or read more about the AMFPHP project . "
So what is Cake??
I highly recommend checking these out. CakePHP is very handy not quite as handy as ruby on rails but if you add the fact that you can combine it with amfphp you have something pretty unique. So have fun with it!
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