Testing Designs - Cross Platform

I’m a huge Apple guy, and I love Firefox 3.0 on the Mac.
But, due to the work I do, I find that I’m always having to fire up the PC in the office to test my CSS is working ok in IE. There’s even issues with Firefox on different platforms too (mainly due to font-rendering).
So, [...]

Expression Engine 2.0 Powered by CodeIgniter Coming Soon

At South by Southwest a few weeks ago, Ellislab gave a preview of the new ExpressionEngine 2.0.
The demo shows the beautiful new backend in action, with some top-notch new features (I particularly like the full-screen editing).
However, the main announcement that stood out to me was this:
The big news of the day in my mind, is [...]

New Akismet CodeIgniter Library

Hey guys, I know many of you are using CodeIgniter to build blogs or similar projects. Well, I’ve been building Blaze this week, and for the new blog module, I ended up building an Akismet library for CodeIgniter!
We can’t stand spam.
Who can? You have better things to do with your life than deal with the [...]

A Sneak Peek at my Book

As I told everyone about a week ago, I am currently writing a book about CodeIgniter. And so far, it’s really going quite well.
I’ve decided to post a bit of the preface here, just to give you all a taste for how the book is written and what to expect from it.
Any comments will be [...]

You Call That Dancing?

Ladies and Gentlemen, please…
Put down your glowsticks and white mini-skirts.
Cast off your whistles and club music.
This is what you call a ‘proper dance’!

Is great to see that not all the youth of the world today think that ‘put your hands up for detroit’ is a dance tune.