Multi-user editing alert Has this ever happened to you? You are merrily editing your SilverStripe website, working on a large update to one of your pages. You finish your update, hit “save & publish” and walk away, thinking you did a great job. Then your boss phones and asks why the update isn’t live yet. At this point you are confused, thinking: “I could have sworn I hit that ‘save & publish’ button.” You log in to the CMS and your update is gone! ...



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The quest for a safer motorcycle I've stopped riding my scooter to work. I was having too many accidents with it. In my most recent crash, the front wheel locked up on a slippery slick section of the road and I was thrown off backwards at 70km/h as the scooter tilted over. I was wearing full protective gear, so I only suffered a sprained wirst. ...



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How to be a better developer Head over to the SilverStripe team page and take a look at Hamish Friedlander, the SilverStripe CTO. Now take a look at me, then look back to Hamish, then back to me. What do you see? I think you will see that I am not nearly as smart as Hamish. ...



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Route Whitelist Say you have a SilverStripe website. Then along comes a bot probing your security vulnerabilities on your site. This bot could be written by a Chinese hacker, the NSA or, most embarrassingly, by a security firm you hired to tell you if your website is vulnerable to attack. ...



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5 tips for SEO with Silverstripe 3 SEO or Search Engine Optimization, is the practice of getting your website to show up high in search results. SilverStripe 3 provides a number of great SEO features out-of-the-box. Here is a quick rundown of the most useful of these features: ...



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Turmeric and ulcerative colitis I have Ulcerative Colitis (or perhaps Crohn's Disease – doctors can't quite make up their minds). It is chronic inflammation of the intestine. Nasty white ulcers form on the inside of the intestine, causing bleeding, cramping and preventing me from digesting food. There is no apparent cause and no cure. ...



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Spiritual technology Chicago, 1972 ­– a group of students milled around an orange robed, shaven head monk who had travelled to America to share spiritual wisdom. He had made the journey from his home in India when he was sixty-nine, suffering two heart attacks along the way. Many thought he wouldn’t make the full journey. But His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada was determined to share the knowledge of Krishna consciousness with the West. Within a year he had established the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) whose aim was to do just that. ...



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Curing death With the advancement of science, some people think the cure for death is just around the corner—people like billionaire investor Doug Casey. He shares his view in an interview with fellow investor James Turk: ...



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The Zone Have you heard of the zone? It's a state of mind sometimes called "flow state". Humans experience it when they get really absorbed in an activity, such as sports, music, art, computer programming, and gaming, etc. It is the mad scientists state of mind when he is so absorbed in his invention that he hasn't eaten, washed, or slept in three days; it is the childs state of mind when she is so absorbed in playing that she doesn't realise that she has gotten hungry or tired; and it is the StarCraft champions state of mind when he is playing... ...



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Scientific Spirituality Science is great! Science helps us understand the world, cure diseases, build great things like computers, mobile devices, skyscrapers, and jet airplanes. It is useful, fascinating and magical. Indeed, sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, as the physicist and science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke famously said. ...



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