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I’ll be giving a Tech Talk on functional programming (using Haskell) for SSE on March 19th. As usual, it will be in the SSE Lab (70-1670) at 6 p.m. If you’re interested in functional programming (or even if you’ve never heard of it), you should definitely come check it out. I’ve posted a number of useful [ READ MORE ]
I recently switched providers for shared hosting used to host this site and a couple of others, and the improvement, at least in transfer rate, has been pretty noticeable. I just happened to come across my site’s crawl statistics in Google Webmaster Tools today and the improvement speaks for itself: I made the switch in the [ READ MORE ]
Cake’s default way of handling simple static content is to use the built-in PagesController to serve up .tpl files from /app/views/pages. This is a simple and straightforward approach and works for very small websites, but comes with some obvious drawbacks: Making changes to the content of the pages requires editing template files; There’s no easy way (generally) [ READ MORE ]