Just the other day I was in the process of saving an HABTM (Have And Belongs To Many) field with CakePHP, specifically for saving the relations between a model Project and another model Category. I first had to do a small extension to the helper since Category was also a n-depth level tree, so I’ve used findAllThreaded on the Category model to get the tree and build a nice tree of checkboxes. All good there.
I was then building the screen that would let the user check these checkboxes and save the relations. Now, since the project was already saved and all I had to do in that screen was present the user with the checkboxes, I figured I didn’t need to set any project details when saving, other than the ID of the project that I was relating to. Big mistake.
Anyone who’s a fan of LOST is familiar with a sequence of numbers: 4 8 15 16 23 42. These are the numbers that almost connect all strange things in the series. During the second season of LOST it was revealed that the numbers are the code that must be entered into the computer located inside The Swan every 108 minutes (by the way 4 + 8 + 15 + 16 + 23 + 42 = 108). Entering the numbers resets the countdown timer to 108 minutes. If an individual does not push the button in time, the numbers flip to a series of glyphs . While the numeric sequence is flipping into these icons, an individual can still finish typing in the numbers, press execute, and return the counter to 108 minutes. Where do these numbers come from? In mathematics, there’s something known as the Shaw-Basho Polynomial. It’s an equation that reads:
Argentina has started the basketball world championship the best way possible. They finished first in their zone with a perfect 5-0 record, and are currently waiting to play New Zealand on the first match of the play offs this Friday.
I am shocked. I just read a study saying that in Argentina, during 2005, 14,526 people died and more than 120,000 were injured just by traffic accidents. That is: 39 deaths and 328 injured per day. This sickening high number puts Argentina as the country with by far the most number of traffic accidents. Between January and March of 2006, 1,777 people died as a result of a traffic accident.