Monthly Archive for May, 2006

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MacBook Is Here

Published on Wednesday, May 17, 2006 in Tagged. Closed

As i’m sure everyone know, the new MacBook was released yesterday in two flavors. The MacBook Pro also got some upgrades to it as well, you can read all about them here.

I was reading through the comparison chart and a few things caught my eye. First of all, the only different between the high end white MacBook and the black MacBook, asid from the $200 in the price tag, is 20 gigs of space on the HD and a black paint. I’m sure i’m not the only one who thinks that is not worth $200.

The next thing I did was compare the MacBook to the MacBook Pro 15″ 2.16ghz Core Duo model. Which is the one I have wanted since they came out. I noticed the only major differences between these two are a slightly bigger screen, 1280×800(MacBook) compared to 1440×900(MacBook Pro). The only other major difference is the graphics card, an Intel Grpahics Accelerator 950 with shared video memory on the MacBook and an ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 with 256MB Dedicated video memory.

Now that we know the two major differences between these two models(other than the .16ghz processing speed), lets compare the prices. We will start with the higher end MacBook Pro which comes in at $2,399(I selected the 1GB 2×512 option for comparison purposes which subtracted $100, the MacBook didn’t have a 1gig/1dimm option) The white MacBook weighs in at $1,549 with the same configuration excluding the afore mentioned differences. The black MacBook is $1,699 with the same configuration.

So on the MacBook Pro to white Macbook we have an $850 difference, for .16ghz processor speed, a slightly bigger screen, and a ncier video card. We still have a $700 difference between the black MacBook and the MacBook Pro. I don’t claim to know how much more those fancy schmancy aluminium cases(sorry, still bitter I could only afford an iBook =P) are than their polycorbonate counterpart, but I don’t think it justifies the price difference. Final verdict? I willwould still pay the extra $850 for the MacBook Pro because i value desktop real estate and video horsepower.

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The Big Day

Published on Wednesday, May 17, 2006 in Tagged. 2 Comments

now open. I got my entry in, have you? =)

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Show coComments Widget

Published on Monday, May 15, 2006 in Tagged. Closed

I was hoping to have this ready for mothers day, I had finished it before midnight yesterday but I wanted to go over everything and make sure it was working ok before sending it out there. So today I bring you the 0.2b version of Show coComments which has the standard plugin, and it is also available as a widget! Get it while it’s hot!

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Saving To Session In Cake

Published on Wednesday, May 10, 2006 in Tagged. Closed

I came accross a problem while developing a user authentication system for an elegent way to store information to the session. I came up with this function …

Throw that in your app_controller.php file and it takes argguments in the same form that Cake pulls them out of the database in(Including the nested arrays for associations) and saves them in the form of Session->Model->Field = Value. For example if I want to get the currently logged in users ID, $this->Session->read(‘User.id’); This function could probably be expanded on to allow for non-associated arrays, i.e. a call for just one entry that does not return any associations will be a one level array, like Location->Field->Value as opposed to Location->0->Field->Value. Perhaps in my free time =)

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Rails Inspired PHP Frameworks Article

Published on Thursday, May 4, 2006 in Tagged. Closed

If you found my last post the slightest bit intriguing you will probably mess your pants when you read this article from h3rald. It goes over 6 of the top ‘Rails Inspired’ PHP frameworks and each of thier pro’s and con’s. h3rald is a cake user as well but does a very good job of not being biased towords cake when reviewing the frameworks. If you are in the market for a PHP framework I would recomend checking out his article before making a final decision.

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