2009-03-24 01:16:14www.mercurynews.com
WASHINGTON?A new book from National Geographic asks celebrities to name their favorite places in the world, and the answers range from Nepal to Brooklyn.
Destinations mentioned in the book, called "My Favorite Place on Earth" ($22.95), include Jerusalem, mentioned by actress Natalie Portman, who was born there; Arud, in Bali, Indonesia, named by travel guru Arthur Frommer; Kauai, Hawaii, listed by Matt Groening, creator of "The Simpsons"; Runyon Canyon Park in Los Angeles, where dogs can walk off-leashed, named by dog whisperer Cesar Millan; Trinidad, the choice of basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, whose grandparents emigrated from the island; and Monument Valley on the border of Arizona and Utah, chosen by George Lucas, "Star Wars" creator, who spent time there as a young man making a short abstract film.
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2009-04-23 05:03:08Damodar Bashyal
My another hunt on the google to find the process to add a static block to a cms page. After few search and filter, i found a post on a pratthost. It saved my a lot of my time and headache. The following post is taken from it, slightly modified.
Actually, there was nothing complicated about achieving this. Static blocks are a great way to divide up different types of data blocks to make updating content easier.
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2009-04-23 06:42:16Damodar Bashyal
Codefight cms, file structure and how to use it?
When i first started to code for codefight cms, i had no idea that it will reach to this position one day. Not only it helped me to learn codeigniter more in depth but it also helped me to write something now and then. And, to my surprise, kevin rudd's stimulus package was the winner todate[23rd apr, 2009] to get the traffic to my site.
If you want to edit something or extend it, you need to be familiar with codeigniter php framework. But if you want to use it as it is with few configuration,then you can setup in few minutes and start using it.
Codefight files are found in different folders. As of version 1.0.0 there are 4 root folders and few sub-folders.
app:
This contains 2 folders admin and frontend. Application code files can be found in these folders. Files related to admin are found in admin folder and those related to frontend can be found in frontend folder.
app ? admin:
Here are also quite few folders. Mainly you will be touching is config, modules and views.
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