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Elliot Haughin

CodeIgniter 2.0 In Progress – The Critical Changes, Implications, and What You Should Know

11th March 2010

Well, it’s been a long time coming, but Ellislab have finally done it, they’ve officially let us know about CodeIgniter 2.0. This is a huge step forward and shows that Ellislab are dedicated to this, their only free product.

I get plenty of emails asking me if this version of CodeIgniter would be released, and it’s clear there’s been a huge buzz about this in the wider development community. So, I’m going to take you through the changes and explain what you need to know, and what this means for CodeIgniter as a framework moving forward.

I’ll make this quite clear: I will not just list all the changes in the changelog. You should be able to find and read them yourselves. This post is more of a summary of the important changes and what they mean for Ellislab, developers, and clients.

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The Cost of Free, the Beauty of Open Source

28th February 2010

This post is a collection of thoughts that I've had recently regarding my code, and the 'cost' of them. As you may know, I'm now blogging more often, ...

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Review: Cacti 0.8 Network Monitoring – PAKT Publishing

26th February 2010

Before Christmas I was asked by PAKT Publishing to review their book on Cacti 0.8. I'd previously written a blog post all about Monitoring Your Servers and ...

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Building UTF8 Compatible CodeIgniter Applications

23rd February 2010

UTF8 allows your site to represent characters other than those in the basic english alphabet. More often than not, your CodeIgniter Application will contain methods where users can ...

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The Dawn of a New Haughin Era

21st February 2010

Since September things have changed a great deal for me, both in my personal life, and professionally. This had led me to seriously think about what it is that ...

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ExpressionEngine 2 and CodeIgniter – Will we see a change in the 3rd Party Market?

4th November 2009

We've known for a long time that ExpressionEngine is built on top of CodeIgniter. But why is this important, ...

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A Long-Awaited Update

24th September 2009

Hey guys, I've totally neglected my blog over the last few months, and I thought I'd let you all know what I'm up to these days. So, obviously I've ...

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