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January 2007

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• Chris' Brain, PHP

  WordPress 2.1 and Mint

  01.30.07 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  I recently decided to ditch using Google Analytics for my stats tracking and installed Mint as my website stats tracking module. I'm really liking it, and it's easily worth the $30 you have to pay for it. C'mon, don't be cheap and steal everything, okay?

  Mint has a really cool plugin architecture that they [...]

• Chris' Brain

  Updated Look

  01.28.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  While googling around looking for info on using widgets in WordPress I saw a link to an awesome looking theme. Plus it supports the use of widgets, so I can easily change how the site looks on the sidebar. Google also pointed me to a widget for the post popularity plugin I'm using, [...]

• Chris' Brain, PHP, Vancouver PHP 2007

  Komodo – not just a dragon

  01.26.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I've tried all sorts of editors in my time: emacs, vim, Eclipse, Zend Studio. After I got into Ruby on Rails, I bought a copy of TextMate to be my main editor. But that's all it is, an editor. In the Rails world, lightweight tools are preferred. I'm a [...]

• Rallyhat, Ruby on Rails

  Rallyhat.com — moving forward

  01.20.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I've gotten some work done on Rallyhat lately, mostly on the train ride home but some stuff in the evenings when I need an internet connection for looking up some sites and testing. Here's what I've gotten working:

  User signup (complete with email and activation code)
  User authentication

  The next thing I'm working on is the Hunt [...]

• Chris' Brain, PHP, Rallyhat, Ruby on Rails

  Application authentication

  01.16.07 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  On the CakePHP mailing list I see frequent questions about various ACL and authorization plugins that are available for cake. I've never used anything beyond simple authentication and access control and always felt that ACL schemes were either too hard to implement or too restrictive. Honestly, do you really need to have one [...]

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