Just had my mac at home upgraded to the last version of Mac OS X: Leopard. After the 1,5 hour long install session, I was pretty excited when the apple logo reappeared after the last restart. It was way past my go-to-bed time (11 pm), but knowing that I would never get any sleep before I at least had the chance to stroke the new kitten.

This week I finally had the change to release my new redesigned blog. Have been been working with a enhanged backend for some time, but at the end I decided to redesign the frontend to. I was looking for something more simple, and at last to move away from my old Wordpress template.

On of the latest things on my to-do list has been implementing a ping function in my CakePHP blog. I was hoping to find some code to copy and paste directly from CakePHP Google Group, but it seems that none has done it yet, and I ended up doing it myself.

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Endel timer har det tatt, men nå er endelig den "nybakte" bloggen min ferdig. Har brukt Wordpress i rundt et år, men da jeg begynte å lukte på CakePHP for rundt en måned siden begynte tankene om å skrive min egen blogapplikasjon.

In the CakePHP (cake_1.1.13.4450.zip) I discovered an bug in bake.php. When trying to bake an model you get this error:

Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class:  model in /Users/gersh/Sites/cakephp/cake/scripts/bake.php on line 435

When I checked the source I found that these lines was commented out:

Line 131:     uses ('inflector', 'model'.DS.'model');
Line 132:     require_once (CORE_PATH.'cake'.DS.'app_model.php');
Line 133:     require_once (CORE_PATH.'cake'.DS.'app_controller.php');

After removing comments bake.php works just fine!

I have just made a new update on WorkTimer, which fixes a bug that prevented WorkTimer 2.03 from starting when there was no internet connection. The deal was that I in the previos update did a rather lazy check with no timeout. This caused Worktimer 2.03 to just stagnate when you network was down:

[NSDictionary dictionaryWithContentsOfURL: (NSURL *)internetURL];

The fix

It was easier then I tought, after just 2 min at the great Cocoabuilder.com a found this snipplet that creates a thread that do the internet checking by it self.

The main application thread is left untouched:

- (IBAction) checkVersion: (id) sender {

[NSThread detachNewThreadSelector: @selector(checkVersionInThread:)

toTarget: self withObject: sender];

}


	
- (void) checkVersionInThread: (id) sender {

NSAutoreleasePool *pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];

	
NSDictionary *versionDict = [NSDictionary

dictionaryWithContentsOfURL: versionsURL];

if (versionDict != nil) {

// do stuff

} else {

NSLog(@“Unable to download version information.”);

}

	
[pool release];

[NSThread exit];

}