Matthew Vincent: Structures to beat flat year
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My attitude to futurology is like that of former England footballer and "Fog on the Tyne" recording star Paul (Gazza) Gascoigne: "I never make predictions, and I never will." But, right now, I can't help but feel that the Geordie midfield wizard and I are in the minority. That's because, judging by the FT Money FTSE 100 predictions, we must be the only people not to hold a firm view of how 2008 will play out on the UK stock market.
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By Christopher Faille, Financial Correspondent
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Off of the Avatar Financial site, there's a great list they've created to share a few things they've learned around a popular PHP framework - more specifically 21 things they've learned about CakePHP.   CakePHP is very new, so documentation beyond the basics is a bit sparse in areas. I built this website entirely using CakePHP and took notes along the way to share with others. While some of these items can be found in obvious places like the manual, others required a bit of elbow grease to figure out. My name is Matt Inman and your feedback is welcome, feel free to email me with questions or comments.   Things learned that are on the list include:  Easily creating static pages Static pages - Adjusting other data sent to the layout Viewing the SQL queries that are running behind the scenes Using bake.php Complex model validation Creating a controller that uses other models Call exit() after redirecting  and many more. There's lots of helpful tips here, especially if you're new to CakePHP and want that extra leg up.
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A number cruncher wants to use the cost of in-world oral gratification to compare virtual worlds' economies. In Game|Life.
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Given at the University of Regensburg on Sept. 12, 2006
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Busting the small-cap risk myth once and for all.
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Editors: Shlomo Reifman and Samantha N. Wong Researchers: Joshua Brandt, Fei Mei Chan,  Andrew T. Gillies, Soo Jeong, Edward Knudsen,  Artie Kwok, John Ray and Jody Yen Programmer: Carl Subick
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Paul Jones has posted a teaser concerning his talks(s) at the upcoming php|works conference this year. One is about organizing your applications to make them easier to maintain and work better and the other is a follow up to some previous benchmarks he created comparing several of the popular PHP frameworks.   About The Benchmarking Talk - Easy one-liner: "Statistical Histories for Fun and Profit." And I do mean profit: the better your apps runs on a given stack, the more eyeballs you get on your ads (or, the more users you can handle).   He will be talking about why benchmarking your app is important, how to benchmark a framework and, the thing everyone's waiting for - his benchmark stats comparing several popular frameworks.   Paul also requests that, if possible, one developer from the teams of each of the other frameworks (besides Solar of course) could be in attendance to critique the talk and help point out issues either with the talk or in his methods.
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Tra la linearita' Anni '60 e la struttura Anni '90
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One recent Saturday morning, I woke with one seemingly simple thing in mind: cleaning out and organizing the closets in my bedroom. If my closets were a database system, the contents would be stored as BLOBs (binary large objects) of varying sizes with no defining structure â just a dumping ground for stuff. As I began dragging things out of the closet, I found items as varied as a backpack, a pair of old ski gloves, about 10 square feet of foam padding, and pocket change in three different international currencies (anyone need Thai bahts?). Faced with a mound of the messy detritus of my own life, I did what most people would probably do: I went to the store to buy even more stuff to organize the stuff I already had.
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How to calculate your investing returns for the year.
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A few miscalculations can wreck a lifetime of saving and investing.
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Paul Jones will be one of the presenters at this year's php/db|works Conference happening up in Toronto this week and he's offering a teaser of his talk (here's the synopsis) for those interested - "Organizing Your PHP Projects".   Fans of Henry Hazlitt's "Economics in One Lesson" will recognize the kind of talk I have in store, although I don't have the time available to expound in detail the way Hazlitt does. The talk will consist of a one-sentence lesson for you to remember when deciding how to organize your PHP project, whether it's a library, an application, a CMS, or a framework. I'll then explain how to apply the One Lesson in your project, and the various follow-on effects the One Lesson will have on your project organization.   He also jokes that he'll be the only presenter to use references to livestock, Jimmy Hoffa, and Mir as a part of the talk. He's even included a slide of the presentation for even more info.
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In photo land, a new gizmo extreme white balancing than the traditional white paper. David Becker's PMA coverage continues in Gadget Lab.
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At age 7, Terence Tao was taking high school math classes. At 31, he is one of the worldâs top mathematicians, tackling an unusually broad range of problems.
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Changes at The Journal: movable deadlines and a new taste for models.
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Today, author Dariush Derakhshani shows you how to create a 3D representation of our solar system and the mechanics of animating orbits. You'll learn about creating simple objects, setting simple keyframes, and stacking your animation to get planets and moons to orbit each other and the sun. By Sybex. 1101