Monthly Archives: December 2009

King’s Cup

A classic drinking game that evolves filling a cup (the kings cup) with random shots of liquor for the unfortunate loser of the game. As with all drinking games the point of the game is to get drunk. You will need A large cup (must be able to hold several shots) A deck of cards [...]

Jackpot

Jackpot is a dice game that was played in many taverns in the middle ages.  People could often find the game’s layout on the taverns tables.  In lower-class establishments the layout is often crudely carved into the tables surface, whereas finer establishments have been known to use specific tables set aside for the game. This [...]

links for 2009-12-19

Aurgasm » Yael Naim When Paris-born, Israeli-raised Yael Naim met David Donatien, a West Indian drummer, the two sat down to share their rich musical experiences. Combining Yael’s classical education and love of pop and jazz, this collaboration lead into recording 13 beautifully arranged compositions, mostly sung in Hebrew, with instrumentation of piano, guitar, cello, [...]

links for 2009-12-17

Meerkat – A jQuery Plugin Meerkat, named for its pop up like behavior, is a jQuery plugin created by myself, Jarod Taylor. It was originally created to serve a specific purpose, however, by adding additional functionality to it, I've found several uses for it. (tags: footer meerkat jquery-plugin slide javascript css ajax webdev) Clocking IT [...]

CakePHP – Security.level

I been having reports from my users that they are getting randomly logged out of my web applications. After much debugging I found that CakePHP regenerates the session on every request. File: core.php /** * The level of CakePHP security. The session timeout time defined * in ‘Session.timeout’ is multiplied according to the settings here. * Valid values: [...]

Why don’t we have free phones yet?

“Re:Should be” by canajin56 (660655) on Wednesday December 16, @12:21PM (#30459990) At least you guys have a choice of providers. Here in Canada, we almost have government-backed monopolies with even higher monthly bills. Are you kidding? It’s not like we’re limited to the big 3 (Rogers, Telus, Bell), we have all sorts of other providers! There’s [...]

I never

I Never is a drinking, word game. This is an absurdly easy game. It’s not about how much you drink, but what you can find out about your friends. This is a game you don’t just want to play with your buddies, you will want some girls in the mix and preferably people that have [...]

links for 2009-12-12

Easy front-end framework Easy is a CSS/HTML/JavaScript framework started as a personal project and then grew into something more. The idea behind it is to reduce the amount of time spent on setting up the basic master HTML template by reusing the same coding techniques. (tags: frontend template grid easy frameworks easyframework front-end)

links for 2009-12-11

Usability Testing Toolkit: Resources, Articles, and Techniques – Noupe Usability is paramount in creating a good website or web app. If your site isn’t user-friendly, the majority of visitors won’t come back, regardless of how good your content is. You need to do everything in your power to make sure every website you design or [...]

CakePHP – Disable validation in controler

When upgrading an old web application to start using CakePHP but the old systems was riddled with invalid data. When the creating the CRUD system I need a way of updating this invalid data. The following line of code will disable the validation in the controller. $this->Story->validate = array(); // Stop valadation on the story. Source: Cakephp Save [...]

CakePHP – Search bar

This code snippet will create a search box that uses can use to search for text in the database. The control creates a query to search certain fields of publsihed stories View or layout: <?php echo $form->create(‘Stories’, array(‘url’ => array(‘action’ => ‘index’))); echo $form->input(‘search_text’, array(‘label’ => false)); echo $form->end(‘Search’); ?> Controler: <?php function admin_index( ) [...]

Indian Poker

Indian Poker is a drinking, card game. I just played this game for the first time this weekend. It was very simple to learn and really good after a few beers. It’s a pretty silly game and if you are in the right mood it can really make you laugh. “They speak of my drinking [...]

links for 2009-12-04

PlotKit – Javascript Chart Plotting | liquidx PlotKit is a Chart and Graph Plotting Library for Javascript. It has support for HTML Canvas and also SVG via Adobe SVG Viewer and native browser support. (tags: chart graph svg charting css webdev javascript visualization) 10 tips for great sounding podcasts! | Geoff Hankerson (tags: podcasting podcasts [...]

UPS vs FedEx

I ordered some cables from this online store in the states (I live in Canada) the cost in goods was $30 for both packages. The first time I ordered the cables I was in a rush so I used FedEx air 2 day, it cost me about $26 in shipping and arrived in two days.  Total 30+21= $51 [...]

links for 2009-12-03

Tags: Database schemas Recently, on del.icio.us mailinglist, I asked the question “Does anyone know the database schema of del.icio.us?” . I got a few private responses so I wanted to share the knowledge with the world. The Problem: You want to have a database schema where you can tag a bookmark (or a blog post [...]