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Wednesday, September 1. 2010

How MyPhoneExplorer helps Android / HTC / Droid / X10 owners

Last week I was faced with the not-so-simple task of moving a lot of stuff from my old SonyEricsson C905 mobile phone (Symbian) to my brand new, shining, and spiffy HTC Wildfire. As reported previously, this task isn't as simple as it sounds. Parting with the C905 is hard. It is the one phone I've owned over the years that has never let me down, and its camera still beats most cell phone cameras, past and present. Parting with something you've gotten used to and come to like is always hard, and when the conversion process to another piece of equipment presents you with a massive mountain to climb, things don't get any easier :-)

Moving from a Symbian based cell phone to a "smart" Android phone is not a straight forward process.

MyPhoneExplorer to the rescue. Oh do read on .. :-)

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Thursday, April 8. 2010

The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi

According to the chronicles of our past (i.e. "history"), Miyamoto Musashi was without a doubt a very successful Samurai warrior with a distinct style.

Whether or not he considered himself successful in the sense that he didn't die a warrior's death is up for discussion, but his book, The Book of Five Rings, and his teachings in the swordsmanship style The Art of War, many aspects of the Book of Five Rings can be applied in everyday life, in business, in your personal life, etc. Some of the writings aren't entirely clear in their meaning, in fact they sometimes sound like a fortune cookie (this may be a translation issue), but if you go back to them once or twice, it's somewhat easier to get a grasp of the meaning.

The thin red line throughout the entire book (my own interpretation) is "Stay focused and dedicated and you will develop and evolve, and possibly reach your goals, if they are true goals". The book is, however, much broader in the subjects covered than those in my personal reflection.

Read it!

Some other links:
musashi.altervista.org/pages_eng/
samuraiconsulting.ca/5rings/
feedbooks.com/book/3953.pdf (PDF)

Friday, March 19. 2010

Really Old Stable Joomla :-)

Thursday, March 18. 2010

Check link popularity based on ranking (Google PageRank, Alexa, etc)

popuri.us is a tool to check at-a-glance the link popularity of any site based on its ranking (Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, Technorati etc.), social bookmarks (del.icio.us, etc), subscribers (Bloglines, etc) and more! Simple, nice, clean!

All we need now is a zillion more ranking places to show up on popuri.us and we're home :-)

popuri.us

Free CakePHP E-Book - Super Awesome Advanced CakePHP Tips

There are a few books out for CakePHP development. The main problem with them is that they're fairly old. There's also a book on the way (2010) that has not yet been released. And then there's Matt Curry's completely free CakePHP book for those that have managed to grasp the basics of CakePHP and want a guide to somewhat more advanced topics.

One can only congratulate Matt on a great idea and implementation; and what's not to like about a free book about CakePHP development?

An introduction to the book here: www.pseudocoder.com/free-cakephp-book/
Matt Curry's original blog post about it here: www.pseudocoder.com/archives/2009/05/13/free-cakephp-e-book-super-awesome-advanced-cakephp-tips/
The book's direct download link is here: www.pseudocoder.com/Super_Awesome_Advanced_CakePHP_Tips.pdf

More about CakePHP can of course be found on www.cakephp.org

Matt has also released a number of CakePHP plugins and code snippets here github.com/mcurry.


Thanks Matt!