Aria Rajasa’s Blog

I have been using CakePHP for several projects now and have been quite satisfied with it, it’s Rails-like architecture and function similarity makes it quite a breeze and fun to learn. But it’s quite frustrating to learn at first, since I’ve started with high hopes and great expectations that it would be just as easy as Rails.. Well, I was wrong.

CakePHP has it’s differences with Rails, especially on object manipulation and activerecords. But it sure is easy to follow if you’re a PHP addict or a rails newbie.

From my own experience, I find that the tutorials from IBM is the easiest to follow. It straightly attack the common problem with a very good way of saying it. I really suggest you to read it after you’re finished with the original cake manual, well, at least the 15 minutes blog tutorial.

Here’s a brief explanation of the tutorial, taken directly from the IBM Developer Site:

• Part 1 focuses on getting CakePHP up and running, and the basics of
  how to put together a simple application allowing users to register for an
  account and log in to the application.
• Part 2 demonstrates how to use scaffolding and Bake to get a jump start
  on your application, and using CakePHP’s access control lists (ACLs).
• Part 3 shows how to use Sanitize, a handy CakePHP class, which helps
  secure an application by cleaning up user-submitted data. Part 3 also
  covers the CakePHP Security component, handling invalid requests and
  other advanced request authentication.
• Part 4 focuses primarily on the Session component of CakePHP,
  demonstrating three ways to save session data, as well as the Request
  Handler component to help you manage multiple types of requests
  (mobile browsers, requests containing XML or HTML, etc).
• And Part 5 deals with caching, specifically view and layout caching, which
  can help reduce server resource consumption and speed up your
  application.

Owh and if you haven’t get cake, get them here!

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Update!

CakePHP is undergoing a very big transition between version 1.1 and ver 1.2. I really suggest you try out 1.2 first since it’s already on the release candidate and will soon be launched. I myself are struggling with 1.1 and are quite stressful because of the lack of documentation and most of the bakers in the bakery are pointing at the 1.2 version.

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I just bought a Nintendo DS about a couple of weeks ago and It’s amazing! So many great games like Mario Kart, The New Super Mario Bros, Phoenix Wright, Final Fantasy III, Elite Beat Agent and many MANY more! Even now I still have many games I haven’t played yet. It’s just fabulouso.

I am using R4 Card Adapter which comes with a Movie (.dpg format), Music (.mp3 format) and eBook Reader (in .txt format). I’ve research about DS and R4 for a bit and discovered nice things, thought I might share it with you guys. So here’s my 5 list of useful things for DS

• Movie to dpg converter for mac and windows
• Read a Comic book on DS
• Bored with your themes? Download more!
• List of all man-made homebrew apps
• And last but not least: DSLinux! - ssh, vi, text web surfing.. for the geek in you.

I’m still figuring out how to browse the web with my DS but I don’t think that’s possible unless I buy Opera for DS. But that just ain’t worth it for me since I still have my 9300i anyway. So, hope this helps you started with possibilities. Enjoy!

*Nintendo DS Logo is a Copyright of Nintendo.

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I’ve found this on PhotoJojo, awesome aggregation of Movie Poster Effects from around the WWWorld. I myself would personally love to make a Scarface and Sin City look to my pics. And probably print it on T-Shirt! :)) I’ll post the result here as soon as I have time to make it.

Moreover on the effects are Pirates of the Carribean, 300-Spartan Like Pictures, Cars, White Noise, and just many to that’s at least worth my time to fiddle with!

Check it out guys

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And yes, I agree with him. Indonesia needs more Internet Entrepreneurs!

PS: Thx for Amir for mentioning.

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CSS Juice have provide us with 38 Free Icon Checkpoints! Free icons will always be welcome among us designers

Check it out! It even has Kuswanto Zeusbox’s RSS Icon! Way the go man!

PS: If you didn’t know, Kuswanto (a.k.a Zeus) is Indonesian and is one of the member of Moodmill development, Graphic design division.

written by Kuy

As of today, I’ll be using Joomla 1.5 for my CMS web projects. I LOVE the new interface! Moreover, it’s on Release Candidate so I believe it’s time to start learning it. For those of you thinking the same thing, maybe you want to read these:

• Joomla 1.5 Installation Guide
• Joomla 1.5 Template Tutorial

And if you’re new to the whole Joomla thing, then you can read these:

• Absolute beginners guide to Joomla 1.5
• Joomla FAQ

Download the source at their website!

written by Kuy

If you are wondering what some sites are built with, you can use builtwith.com. It’s a web page technology profiler (as you can see on their website). BuiltWith.com! It’s quite useful if you want learn what technology incorporate your favorite or competitor’s website.

Too bad we can’t see the details of builtwith.com using the tool itself

PS: It’s on ASP.net if you notice the page extension.

written by Kuy

No, I don’t vote. But for those who care, then you might wanna see this:

Got it from milis Ivo Setyadi at iluni12

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Sorry lin I couldn’t come, how about I just announce your wedding to the whole wide world

Once again, congrats!

written by Kuy