My latest little project has needed some automation to take it beyond me visiting a link everyday. I wanted to have a script that I had built in CakePHP just run at intervals, so that I wouldn’t have to manually run it. I was pointed in the direction of Cron a “… a time-based scheduling service in Unix-like computer operating systems” (link). Setting it up to run with CakePHP was rather simple, so lets see how. Read the rest of this entry »

The long awaited album arrived today. It was worth the wait.

I should start by saying that I have been a fan of Hunz since his days in Beanbag. They were one of the first bands I actually followed, but I only did get one chance to see them live, at Sonfest. It was a sad day when they ended while in America – and while it was probably time for those guys it was difficult to understand – especially because Well-Adjusted seemed to be where they were getting warmed up.

Anyway enough of the past. I’m over it now, I swear.

Another aside. This CD doesn’t not fall into my general taste of music, so you’ll have to excuse if my words and descriptions don’t fit.

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I am new to this topic in many ways. For ages I have prefered to do the database work in Cakephp – or being honest, I have been afraid to touch MySQL, being that close to the data seemed like a stupid idea. Especially because I wasn’t bold enough to go playing with things.

That being said, I have been needing to make my data transfers faster for one project I am currently working on (under wraps at this time, more news soon I’m sure). Every second query was returning nothing. Not good. So the first thing was to speed up the queries. Read the rest of this entry »