I’m going to keep this short as I’m very tired, but I wanted to take this opportunity to let everyone know that Unknown Tales is now live.

Although I’ve set-up an official UT blog over on the site, I’m going to be using that for mostly promotional purposes, while this blog will remain mostly technical with more information on the back-end stuff.

Talking of which, at some point I’m going to make a post listing all of the technologies used in the building of the site – not just the big stuff like CakePHP and jQuery – but the specific plugins and other bits that have been used.

Anyway, please go and have a look at the site and let me know what you think of it. I’m after some honest feedback, i.e. if you think something is crap, let me know – just make sure you also let me know why.

Thank you

Although we’re still a while away from launching, most of the stuff that I’m able to do on the site for South Worcestershire College, has been done. Because of this, I thought I’d post a quick preview image of what the site’s homepage looks like. (more…)

This is a reply to the message posted by my friend Cos.

While I agree with some of what you say, and admit that Dawkins can be a bit extreme at times – I think it’s only fair that the atheists get someone that is willing to put themselves on the front line by standing up to be counted. Maybe he is going about it in the wrong way, but I, for one, respect him for what he is trying to do (no, he is not my god).

I’m an atheist. And I have to say that I hate religion. But don’t get me wrong, that’s not the say that I hate religious people. People can believe in whatever they want, if it keeps them happy, don’t make any difference to me – it’s the organised forces that prey upon such people that I dislike.

You talk about 9/11 – yes it sucks that Muslims the world over got a bad rep as a result of it, but if it wasn’t for Islam (or any religion), and the idea that you have to do what this imaginary authority figure tell you to, then there would not be people (religious leaders of all forms) taking advantage of their followers.

From what you’re saying, it sounds like you’re all for the idea of the pope being arrested, you just don’t want Dawkins to do it?

Hey everyone, just a quick message to let you know that the Community for Unknown Tales is now online. The rest of the site should follow shortly, but for the moment, if you want to get settled into the Community and make a few posts, it’ll feel like home before you know it.

Back when I was building Unknown Tales as part of my Independent Study I had a problem trying to get data to save to three separate models at the same time. I was creating a form based around the Story model, and trying to get it to save data to that, as well as the Chapter and Path models at the same time.

Well, I’m happy to say that the latest edition of Unknown Tales, which is starting to come together very nicely, has fixed this problem, and it is such a simple fix that I’m kicking myself for not thinking about it before. (more…)