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That was last year, June, when I first went to Daniel’s blog and read this article about the feeling of boredom in programming. I blogged about it here in wordpress hosted blogsite.

There were 2 people who commented on my blog post. The first one was nakatawa. That is a friend of mine (we met in college) who lives now and work as a computer engineer in the United States . And the second was Daniel himself. He said that it was the programming in question if it is the right thing to do.

Once again this year, The feeling is killing me. This time, it feels more frightening, as it tells me to be afraid of the future. IT is more like dictating me what to do and I tend to feel to be in less control.

I thought that I update my readers regarding my personal cakephp project named “Learn The Web”. It’s actually a question and answer site, and the users earn points and gain levels and improve their profile according to the number of questions posted, answers to questions, and votes.

The tasks finished :

1. use of AuthComponent ($this->Auth->authorize = ‘actions’)
2. use of cakephp Themes (with that you can customize or create your own layout for the site.)

The web app online is not updated because I have sessions problem with the free host. (hey , it’s a free host!).

I found this article from six revisions and they enumerated several tools that would help you develop faster loading web pages.  Some of them are actually the first time I heard of, but they are really quite useful to me, though, others might not if they are more into linux than windows.

I thought I should share with my fellows this function I just created to get the first monday of the month using PHP.

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I just went to the ##php channel in irc.freenode.net to ask the great gurus about the opposite of ‘===’ .
Here is the excerpt of our discussion:

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