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By James Coates  Q. When I start my computer, the files are shown as fat icons. I would like them to open instead in list view, with each file shown by its name on just one line.
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If you're using FlickrFan, you should have a copy of podcatcher.root in your Tool folder. If not now, at the top of the next hour (launch the OPML app so it can do the update). I want to get started with a small group of people, develop features, and then figure out how to broaden it, if that turns out to be the right thing to do. For now, I just want a testbed to develop, and a group of interested users. I've put together a brief cheat sheet for FlickrFan users. http://codecasting.org/podcatcher/00001.html  If you have a question please post it there and we'll try to get you the answer. Hope it works, and hope you like it.
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Buddi is a simple budgeting program targeted for users with little or no financial background. It allows users to set up accounts and categories, record transactions, check spending habits, etc.   I am pleased to announce the release of Buddi 2.9.3.0.  This is the first release in the 3.0 Development branch which is recommended for production use.  I have converted my finances to this new version, and I greatly appreciate all those who are able and willing to help me test it.  To import your existing data, do the following:  1) Create a new data file (File -> New, or just run the program for the first time) 2) Import your legacy file (File -> Import -> Import Legacy Buddi File) 3) Select your old data file.  Buddi should now import the old data.  Please double check that the new version gives the same numbers (account balances, net worth, budget, etc) as the old version.  If there are any discrepancies or problems, please report them to me.  Cheers
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In love with column view? Find out how to make it a permanent thing at the Apple Pro/ site in the latest Mac OS X killer tip. [Sep 29]
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Ryan Malesevich points out a very simple, one-script solution to the common need for an image gallery for your website - SimpleView Gallery - that a friend of his has written up.   In my post that I wrote that I would be back for good this time, I mentioned that I was going to be working on a gallery script. My good friend Chris let me know that he also wrote a simple script viewer that works quite while. His script is SimpleView Gallery and it requires to modification for it, just upload the script to a directory that contains images and that's it.   He also mentions a small change he made to make it work with WordPress and it's automatic thumbnailing system (to hide those thumbnails).
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You wonât find them on your keyboard, but theyâre in your system somewhere. Hereâs how you can easily access them.
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In a follow-up to a previous blog post, Alexey Zakhlestin shares a few more thoughts on the project and the proper object hierarchy's going for.   actually, I changed it completely 3 times already in my thoughts. I finally "see the light"(tm) and will implement it on a weekend. I think about converting SCGI-part to a simple "driver" and move all http-related stuff to a separate driver-agnostic set of classes. This way, I would be able to implement FastCGI as anther driver without altering applications. If you have any better ideas - let me know.   He also includes a link to another sample application that uses the functionality to create a pie chart (including some benchmarks) with the help of the eZ components framework.
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The International PHP Magazine is back this week with the results from their latest user poll that asked the question "Which Stage Comes First in the Development of the Basic CMS?"   Of course, of the options they gave, "Planning your CMS" came in with an overwhelming lead of 60.5 percent of the votes. Lagging far behind that was "Further Development" and "Database creation". It is good to see that a large majority of the people out there think that taking the time out to plan out the application first is the best way to go. Throwing something together, especially something that can get as complex as a CMS, is a very bad idea.   Be sure and get your votes in on this week's poll that asks which of the given options including "Web and command-line interface" and "Generates a todo list from @todo tags in source") wouldn't be a good option to be added to the phpDocumentor functionality.
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The Bakery has posted five new articles/tutorials for topics like customizing the view and sending emails a little differently:   $anything_for_layout: Making HTML from the View available to the layout - Did you ever have a side navigation that you wanted to change based upon changes in the view? Using this helper, you can write HTML and other output for display in the layout css list-menu helper - A helper (method) to create a css formatable list-menu. ViewInFile component - Sometimes in needed to output a view in a file. Most of the time for debugging, but also for some web service (xml) where you might need to send (by mail as a copy) an xml file reflecting the answer of the webservice. ActAs Image column behavior - This behavior add new column to your model and allow to store images in file system. It can resize images, create several versions, and thubnails. After find model you got link to file for each record in model. Email Validation - email validation replacement for /cake/libs/validation.php   Check out The Bakery for even more great CakePHP-related content.
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At the public demo on the 17th, I will talk about the idea of the Networked Living Room built on RSS. Low-tech, open, all moving parts replaceable. Not just photos, that's step one.  Sign up on Upcoming. Still some space left.
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By James Coates  Q. I have a problem with your recent praise for the new Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 Web browser regarding handicap issues.   For years I have used "right-click - open in new window" to effectively create tabs that appear at the bottom of the screen.
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'Don't edit' list includes photos, and Quicken and QuickBooks files, Microsoft warned. There's no word yet on a fix.
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Q I use Windows' "Send To" right-click menu as a quick way to copy a file to a flash drive or attach it to an e-mail. How do I get rid of all its irrelevant options?
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Q: Any idea why when I open folders in Excel or Word some of the file names are in blue and others are in black? Is it a function of when they were created or in what version of Office they were saved?
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Amir Saied has posted an update to his PEAR Services_Ebay project sa have been comitted to his CVS repository.   As I posted earlier, I'm working on the PEAR package Services_Ebay. To update it to new eBay XML schema, I've done some of the Calls/Models/Examples and touched the request skeleton to be compatible with eBay's new schema and finally committed them to the PEAR CVS. But unfortunately I can't continue with this job as before.   He notes that the version is not production ready, and since he won't be able to work on it as before, he's also including a progress file to help keep track of where the project stands.
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In a new post to his blog today, Felix Geisendorfer talks about view coding - specifically working with a menu and determining which element is active.   One of the challenges many of us have faced before and will face in future is building a menu. Now this of course is very simple assuming that we're just shooting for a static &lt;ul> with some &lt;li>'s containing the links. However the tricky part is to figure out what is the active menu item. I had some code doing this in the past but tried out a new flavor of it today which I call the MacGyver menu for CakePHP as it's a little dirty yet powerful and easy to maintain.   In his included code, he creates a simple navigation from an array of titles/links and, with some sorting, a regular expression and a CSS class, the selected item can be highlighted simply.
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David has posted an article to the Expirmentalworks.net blog about a task that he and Johannes Schluter have finished up - importing the PHP CVS tree over into Git.   A few month ago Johannes Schluter and I started discussing about GIT and other decentralized version control systems. During our exploration of GIT we thought about importing the PHP CVS tree into git. A few weeks later and a lot of wasted cpu time, we finally managed to provide an inofficial GIT mirror of the PHP CVS repository. ItÃ¢ÂÂs provided by Johannes Schluter and mirrored by me.    The post documents the path they followed - using git-cvsimport, parsecvs and a path they needed to make - to finally get the import working without any flaws. You can check out their unofficial repository here (it's updates twice a day from the live CVS).