A New Way To Advertise/Monetize

My Dear Readers,
Many of you, I know, own websites.
And many of you have products you wish to advertise.
Well, I’d like to introduce you to a new service I’ve been working on for some time: BuySellAds - Online Advertising Platform.
I was originally asked by owner, Todd Garland, to rewrite BSA to use CodeIgniter, which is of [...]

Ellislab Session at SXSW - Video

If you weren’t lucky enough to get to SXSW this year, don’t worry!
Andru Edwards from GearLive has posted a video of the Ellislab session. The session discusses the migration of ExpressionEngine to CodeIgniter. After the speaches and demonstration there’s a question and answer session which answered a couple of the points I’d been pondering about.

It’s [...]

Exploring Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

This week I’ve been reading a great deal about Amazon EC2, a service which lets you rent servers from Amazon’s huge server farms from as little as 10 cents/hour ($73/month).
The principle behind EC2 is genius. You select which ‘AMI’ (linux image) you want to start your server with, then choose what spec you want.
Here’s the [...]

Test Sites in Any Platform - Live!

I recently wrote a post mentioning Browsershots - a service which allows you to request screenshots of your site in different browsers/operating systems.
While that’s all well and good, how about the ability to test things live? Like AJAX, Javascript and all that other fun magic. Well, now there’s a service that lets you do all [...]

Collaboration Time

For some time now I’ve been suffering from what can only be described as coding block.
Since, I started building Blaze - A Free CodeIgniter CMS, I have been trying to think of all the features, workings, and ideas for the system myself. But, I’ve realized that this way of thinking isn’t very open-source.
I need your [...]