My attempt at making a command run on startup was unsuccessful. I tried a few things and eventually posted on the Gentoo forums for help. Some people have offered suggestions, but no luck yet ...

I went back and looked some more at the list Nate left me. I looked a bit at the documentation for the two classes he mentioned, mostly the first one. I wonder why the examples show them loading Auto Core, but we only load Core.

I did a quick search on Catalyst role-based authentication, and I think it can be done using the plugins we already have.

I looked again at that problematic "count" call -- still don't know what's wrong.

I installed and played with "swftools," which lets you convert action scripts into swf (flash) files. I went through their tutorial and was really excited about it, but the tutorial was only a primer, and I haven't been able to find any actionscript tutorials that don't assume you are using Macromedia's app to edit your flash. Nothing text-only. I'm really disappointed, because I thought I could maybe start making some nice interactive graphs like what we saw for Gapminder. But all I can do for interaction is let them edit text and hover over things. No dragging. I looked for some sort of flash editor for Linux -- no luck yet. Tomorrow I'll probably search and post at the Gentoo forums, something like "gui editor for kde like macromedia flash for linux."

One way I could try to learn more Ajax is by dissecting the source code I see in Gmail.

If there's an easy way to view the actionscript behind a flash applet, then I could probably start learning flash -- well, actionscripting -- pretty quickly.

I did find a site with a very cool flash app that generates simple graphs for you.