Jul312007

Updated Theme: Cave Story

Balrog buddy icon   Doctor buddy icon
Balrog & Doctor icons, suitable for use with IM programs.

Still working on the new theme/layout, but thought I’d post some junk here befitting the new header graphic.

Derek Yu interviews Pixel, the creator of Cave Story.

Pixel’s new shooter, Guxt (Gusuto)

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Jul262007

New game acquisitions

Meteos (JP) BoxGuilty Gear XX: Accent Core (JP) Box

Visited Play-Asia.com, and was taken in by their weekly special: a Japanese copy of Meteos for $15. Next thing I knew, I was also grabbing Guilty Gear XX: Accent Core — another long-awaited game. Meteos is a DS puzzle game produced by Tetsuya Mizuguchi, of Lumines fame. I really don’t know much else about it, except that it’s supposed to be good. Lumines was pretty awesome, so I don’t feel like I’m taking too big of a risk here. I’ve wanted a copy of Guilty Gear for a darn long time; I bought Isuka in Japan, but it’s not very fun. There’s a reason why 2D fighting games are mainly for two players.

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Jul262007

Modifying dateTimeOptionTag() in CakePHP

CakePHP has all sorts of nifty form helpers that I would ordinarily never use, except for the fact that they get put in the auto-generated views. The helper that creates a day/month/year select tag automatically lists years from like 1947-2017… way too many. I normally don’t care, but a client complained about it this morning, so I had to go searching around for a way to fix it. Rather than go into the code itself, I prefer to be lazy and just search the net to see if anyone else has written something about it. Jackpot! Some dude has written how to modify the dateTimeOptionTag().

In case that page goes blank, the gist is editing
/cake/libs/view/helpers/html.php, which is the HTML Helper. Find the calls to yearOptionTag(), and change the third and fourth parameters to your start and end year, respectively. I used date("Y") and date("Y", strtotime("+4 years")).

[Edit] Alternately, just modify yearOptionTag() itself… the place to change the code is pretty obvious.

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Jul232007

16-miler

Run on 7-23-07

About 16 miles. Not shabby. The marathon is 3 months away.

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Jul192007

$@!#& eBay!

Well, I had my first and last experience trying to sell a high-ticket item on eBay… it’s absolutely unusable. I tried to sell my laptop. In the first auction, I put in a “buy it now” price, which was immediately sniped by a bot. Great. My listing fees are refunded, and I list the laptop again, without the “buy it now.” Five days later, after enduring about a million spam “questions” from Chinese companies, the auction is ended by a fraudulent account. Man, eBay is just not worth it these days. Perhaps low valued items are still OK… I sold a DS game with no problems, and buy games pretty regularly… but the laptop is gonna have to get offed some other way. G’uh!

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