Recent Links: October 27 to November 03

A handy AppleScript bundle that can be added to the tool bar, which will open a TextMate window"containing all selected or dropped items in a project." Built for Leopard, though it should work in Tiger.

A set of tips to easily change the appearance of the dock and its separators in Leopard. For those folks who like the 3D look, but want to tweak it a bit, you now have an easy way to style it your way.

"OpaqueMenuBar is a tool for Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" to make the menu bar non-transparent, so you cannot see through it any more. "

"Pledge small donations to support software development" An interesting example of taking social concepts and applying them to the business world. If you have an idea, but don't have the funding, you can ask people to make micropledges to help support your work. On the other side of it, if you have an idea, or like one already out there, but are not able to develop it yourself, you can support it with whatever amount of money you'd lile.

"A review of three new pieces of Macintosh image editing software: Acorn, Pixelmator, DrawIt.""I won’t be comparing the applications’ feature lists exhaustively in the article. I am also going to concentrate on some major items that are always requirements for me. That means I’ll miss some that are critical for you. And I’ll be concentrating on the UI and the behaviour of these apps, because that’s where we spend the most time. Little things that get short shrift in other reviews like application and document icons will be covered."

A great list of books about information and interaction design, usability, and user experience compiled by the Interaction Design Association.

The URL for Google's social networking framework.

"After months of deliberation of nearly 200 fan submitted remixes, the 21 track 'The Limitless Potential' open source remix collection is finally available for free download."

Some useful examples of Cake's findAll functionality.

A handy list of tips and tricks for CakePHP development, including the creation of static pages (static content in the default layout sans models), building a simple admin area, using Bake, advanced validation, logging, controllers that use multiple models, advanced model usage, inserting multiple rows, adding a WYSIWYG editor, sending e-mail, and more.

A central location for CakePHP information, tutorials, news, code and articles.

A simple helper for CakePHP to display social bookmark links. It looks pretty straightforward to implement.

The WordPress Help Sheet includes the following:* Basic Template Files * PHP Snippets for the Header * PHP Snippets for the Templates * And Extra Stuff for WordPress

Very useful functions built into CakePHP, including the ability to return text fragments of a specific length with an ellipsis at the end and HTML escaping,