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How to Bathe A Pug Puppy in 8 Haikus

One

Pugs are great, but smell.
Oh, Saturday. Pug’s Bath day.
Hmm, which should go first?

Two

Fill sink with water.
Should be warm, but not too hot.
Don’t want to scald them.

Three

Buy a Pug shampoo.
All-purpose pet cleaning goo.
“For All Dogs” - Pugs too.

Four

Okay, it’s bath time.
Daisy looks eager to go.
Duke can go second.

Five

Very Important.
Clear the area of stuff.
Fewer distractions.

Six

Meek Pug tries water.
She shivers at first, but then,
slowly trusts you’ll be quick.

Seven

Lather, rinse, repeat.
Don’t make a big fuss, gently.
Dab little Pug dry.

Eight

Put outside to dry.
Warm sunny spot would be nice.
Try Arizona.

Dreamweaver slows me down too

This blog is great. Tons of people expressing the same thing I’ve been feeling lately… Dreamweaver is just slow.

I recently switched from Dreamweaver CS3 on Windows (running under Bootcamp on a Macbook Pro) to Dreamweaver CS4 running under Snow Leopard. I also upgraded from 2GB to 4GB of RAM. Dreamweaver CS4 is almost unusable in Design mode, on longer documents. Maybe I have to run disk utility or something, but sheesh.

I’ve enjoyed using Dreamweaver for many years, but why is it that as computers get faster and faster, Adobe software gets slower and slower?

As I’ve pointed out before, Adobe makes some of the most expensive software out there. Why doesn’t it work better?

Kohana 3 PHP Development Resources

Here is the most current Kohana 3 Documentation.

Here is the Kohana 3 API.

Here is the Kohana 3 Unofficial Wiki.

Here is a link to all posts tagged with KO3 in the KohanaPHP Forums.

Here is a search result for KO3 Models. Models represent the ‘M’ in the MVC software design pattern. Chances are your Models will use a Database backend. Here’s the KO3 Database tutorial.

Here’s a great tutorial on using Views with Kohana 3. Views represent the ‘V’ in the MVC software design pattern.

Here is a search result for KO3 Controllers. Controllers represent the ‘C’ in the MVC software design pattern. In order to decide what Controller (and Action) to run, you need to use KO3 Routing.

Once you get the hang of things, you’ll find this KO3 Cheat Sheet comes in very handy, as does this Git Cheat Sheet!

Git for Subversion Users

I just spent a few hours reading up on Git, and have to admit I saw the light. One of the coolest features of Git is that it is distributed and provides an easy way to have a repository made up of smaller sub-repositories (called submodules in Git). Try that with SVN! Why does this matter? What’s so cool about Git? you may be wondering… Well, because the Kohana 3.0 source code is stored in several Git repositories, you can easily checkout the source to a local working copy, including only the modules you want, and also build your application in a local Git repository.

All of the following links are really helpfu.

Git for Subversion users, Part 1: Getting started

Git for Subversion users, Part 2: Taking control

git-svn is a gateway drug

Git Manual

Git User Guide

Guide on using Git with Kohana

Famous Pairs (how to name two dogs)

With a little help from Factacular, We compiled this list of famous pairs, in preparation of the potential arrival of two pugs we might be getting tomorrow.

Abbott and Costello
Ben and Jerry
Cheech and Chong
Bill and Ted
Black and Decker
Ernie and Bert
Gilbert and Sullivan
Hall and Oates
Lenny and Squiggy
Lewis and Clark
Mario and Luigi
Ren and Stimpy
Rocky and Bullwinkle
Romulus and Remus
Siegfried and Roy
Siskel and Ebert
Starsky and Hutch
Tom and Jerry
Simon and Garfunkel
Wallace and Gromit
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Edit December 29, 2009
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Well, we ended up with a boy and girl, brother sister from the same litter of 8 pups. We decided to name them Daisy and Duke.

ICANN is retarded. Literally.

I just had an amazing idea for a new TLD. So, naturally, I Google create new TLD.

I went to this link, then to  the ICANN FAQ on how to create a new TLD, then the ICANN forum…

This stuff is like from 2000. Am I missing something? The newest info about this is almost a decade old?

It seems more often lately, I stumbleUpon Ars Technica, which has a good overview of a recent plan by ICANN to allow hundreds more generic Top Level Domains.

GMail Keyboard Shortcuts Make GMail Even Faster

GMail is incredible, has been since it launched.

But if you’re not using the GMail Keyboard Shortcuts, you’re missing out. The performance of navigating GMail is instantaneous when using many of the keyboard commands, particularly archive (e) and delete (#).

Boundaries for Open Source Software

This is the best and most succinct guideline for participating in open-source software I’ve ever read.

http://trac.handbrake.fr/wiki/IsIsnt

How to convert fonts from .pfb to .ttf on Mac OSX

http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/MacOSX.html

Adobe Pushes Flash, PDF to US Government

The article about the security vulnerabilities of Adobe Shockwave on Slashdot also posted this, linking to an Ars Technica post about how Adobe is peddling Flash & PDF technology to Uncle Sam. Trouble is, what if you don’t want to install Flash or Acrobat Reader?

Do you really want to be forced to install Adobe software on your computer in order to access certain government forms and information?

What if you’re blind, or still use DOS? What if you wanted to access a government form on your phone? Please government, use open standards like Text, XML, XHTML & CSS for various devices, screen readers and easy & fast searchability.

I admit that I’ve used many interactive forms in the PDF format, always to send the mercenaries more of my hard-earned money.

So my plea is this: Washington, please! Stop making us all fill out so many damn forms and stick to open, accessible standards, please!