Stream of Ry

With the release of the shiny new various improvements on it, you’d want to have a picture installing the new stuff.

And what better way to boost your geek image than having a picture with “The Matrix” right on your fingertips.

To get it on your Ubuntu distribution* just type:
sudo apt-get install cmatrix

Once you got it, you can just run it on the terminal using:
cmatrix

There are options you can configure for it (like color, speed, font, etc). Just refer to the documentation for the different parameters:
man cmatrix

Be sure to get Lucid Lynx, if you haven’t.

*It should work even on earlier versions, for other distributions, refer to their site.

Here’s a message from aspiring Vice President, Mar Roxas:

I’d have to commend that the message, at first glance, is a purely motivational one. But, as any message from politicians at *this* (read: elections) season, I’m quite sure there are some subliminal messages cramped in between-the-lines. BUT! Because trying to read messages in between-the-lines require a lot of squinting, for now, I won’t bother. You’re free to field in your comments, as usual.

PS: Yes, I’m a sucker for “You can do it”, “The future is in your hands”, “If not me, then who else” messages. *thumbs up*

** Warning: Heavy Webdev Jargon Post — Javascript, PHP, Object-oriented concepts **

So, I spent my entire weekend trying to wrap my head around how CakePHP does things, but I spent more time trying to figure out how to make different AJAX methods to work with it.

Well, for starters, CakePHP is an rapid development MVC framework for PHP. It’s similar with RoR and Groovy and Grails. It implements ORM… and a lot more. ( If you have trouble with some of the jargon they have on the site, you can ask me here and I’ll try explaining them. )

Here’s my supposed laundry list of AJAX stuff to try:

• Inline editing
• Drag and Drop
• Dynamic updating of selects
• Quick saving

So far, I’ve finished… 1 of 4. X3

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