Chris Harrison has provided a video of my RefreshAugusta presentation, in which I presented an “Introduction to CodeIgniter.” Please provide your criticisms, critiques, questions and comments within the comments of this post.
This evening I presented an “Introduction to CodeIgniter” at the monthly RefreshAugusta meeting. The location was excellent and comfortable, the attendees were great to talk to and overall welcoming and Chris Harrison had free food and giveaway prizes, thanks to Powerserve and Adobe! I’ve included my slides from the presentation as well as the slide notes, which contain the majority of the content.
If you’ve ever worked with Ruby on Rails you are no doubt a fan of it’s convention over configuration policy. By simply naming files in a specific manner, the framework will take care of the loading for you - saving you a line of code within your application. We’ll implement some of this functionality in our own CodeIgniter applications.
Just a quick post to thank the good folks on Twitter for letting me know my feed was all sorts of screwed up. I made a real quick attempt of fixing the feed and transferring it to my Google account (since Feedburner was acquired by Google) but it was all in vain.
I’ve decided to just [...]
I have been asked to make a presentation on CodeIgniter at the May Refresh Augusta meeting. So, what would you like to see in a CodeIgniter presentation? The reAugusta attendees aren’t new to the web development world, so I am leaning away from the “Why should I use a framework and why should it be CodeIgniter” approach - I am thinking something more along the lines of “Why CodeIgniter is Perfect for the New or Returning PHP Developer.”
Due to version inconsistencies, installing Ruby on Rails for Windows can be a bit tricky - especially if you are following tutorials meant for other operating systems (or a Windows tutorial that hasn’t been updated). In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through how to install Ruby, upgrade it to the latest Windows release, and install Ruby on Rails with full SQLite support.
Twitter is an extremely useful communication tool that can serve a wide variety of purposes. I have used it extensively in my daily life and even found some great uses for it in planning my family’s move cross-country. Here are 6 quick tips to make your next move much less stressful!
Wordpress shortcodes, introduced in Wordpress 2.5, allow you to define your own BBCode language for your theme. Smashing Magazine has an excellent article, with plenty of examples, on how to use and create your own shortcodes. In this article, I share my Wordpress shortcode for displaying Gist code snippets.
Pessimstic development helps to ensure your applications will only respond to those situations in which it knows it can respond successfully, as well as assist you in the graceful degradation of times when a user is not behaving as expected. In this article, I provide a glowing example of pessimistic development.
If you visit my domain, rather than view through the RSS feed, you will see a drastic change in the design of this site. Many things are currently broken (particularly image floating and code samples) but I will fix those throughout the coming days.