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Cool Tings!

Hey Gals and Guys,

As some of you know I’ve had a sick family member.. It’s cancer so it sux. Also I have not released a course in about 2 months. Luckily I’m filthy rich from the first lot of courses and only wear undies made from silk and sewn together by virgins.

Anyways the reason for this post is to share some links to some cool Tings (Things) I’ve been looking at today.

www.datejs.com - You write dates like next friday and it understands.

www.merbivore.com - Another ruby MVC framework.. looks promising and I actually think I’ll have a play with it tonight. They have a book that is being created by the community.

http://ajaxian.com/ar../aja..pe - I’m a fan of Prototype and never code just straight Js anymore. Super Sam the creator has a nice interview over at Ajaxian that is worth a look.. thanks Sam :)

http://github.com - It’s a Social Network Version Control site using Git. Subversion is so last month and if you like subversion your ugly and stupid at least that’s what Linus Torvalds says! his so clever and yes his solution to version control is going to be used in future lessons.

Anyways this is what I looked at today please share what you looked at today! I would love to hear about it.

See you guys on the forum :)

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12 Responses to “Cool Tings!”

  1. Scrumptious Says:
    May 14th, 2008 at 10:40 am

    Hey Leigh!

    Thanks for the update, I’m sorry about your family member, it must be difficult. You know, I read an incredible self help book about the mind & its influence on the body a few months ago, its called “Dianetics”, its truly incredible and has been known to produce miracles if the person works hard at it, check it out:

    http://www.dianetics.org.au/

  2. Trevor Gau Says:
    May 14th, 2008 at 11:22 am

    Nice links! I will check them out when I get home. Note that the strtodate() function is really good at understanding dates as well. I’m sure I could do an AJAX replica of datejs.com.

    I hope everything is going okay for you, and I’m glad to hear that you are “filthy rich” lol!

  3. leighmac Says:
    May 14th, 2008 at 6:51 pm

    Hey Scrumptious,

    Thanks for the link to the book, It must be a very good book :)

    Hey Trevor,

    I would roll with the javascript version over the Ajaz version any day of the week! Ajax is great for somethings but it’s also the new “flash intro” most times it’s not even needed.. but it does have it’s place.

    and yes strtotime is very nice :)

  4. kiran Says:
    May 15th, 2008 at 5:43 am

    http://merbunity.com/
    this is community site for merb.

  5. Trevor Gau Says:
    May 15th, 2008 at 11:19 am

    Does Javascript have a strtotime() equivalent? Where can you view the documentation for Javascript? The only reason I wanted to use AJAX was because I knew how to code it in PHP, but not in Javascript. AJAX would be the only way to link the two :)

  6. SteveA Says:
    May 18th, 2008 at 3:11 am

    thanks for the update leigh… we’re all pulling for you and your family…

    all my best,
    steve

  7. capt_nemo777 Says:
    May 25th, 2008 at 10:29 pm

    hey leigh, try buying that “ceragem masterbed” its known worldwide already, infact, its widely used in the philippines because of its usefullness, and my family bought one, am not over exaggerating it, but once you have this, it’s like you have a general hospital at home., it has cured alot of body ailments, I bet it can kill cancer..more than a chemotherapy or cobalt…try it man..there’s a website..just visit..you got the idea

  8. Chris Says:
    May 26th, 2008 at 7:36 pm

    Hey Leigh, you never heard off me before but I’m Chris, and I’ve only just l started watching your videos ;)
    To let you know, I’m only 11 years old, but I like learning scripting languages :D.
    Sorry to hear about your family, I just lost my nan to cancer :S
    Anyway, loving the videos, I need your next one ASAP ;), it’s about actually inserting data into mySQL tables in ? I’ve been searching everywhere. I just can’t find it, I’ve had a go at trying it myself, but it just ain’t working ;)

    Anyway, keep up the good work :p

  9. i-mad Says:
    May 30th, 2008 at 4:10 pm

    Hi leigh nice links thanks
    i’m wondering what’s the next lesson is gonna be about ?

    and thanks again ;^)

  10. mem0rex Says:
    May 31st, 2008 at 9:24 am

    So are you not going to make anymore free lessons?

  11. che Says:
    June 2nd, 2008 at 3:10 am

    Man we are waiting for your next tutorial
    So Harry up Man
    We are waiting

  12. Diaa Says:
    June 18th, 2008 at 1:55 pm

    Are you working on new projects? It would be great if you can give us a brief idea about what is coming up. What kind of projects are you going present?

    Thank you so much for your great work.

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