Feb

14

CodeIgniter 1.7.x, ‘Core’ 2.0, CodeIgniter Reactor, Bitbucket, Zips… It’s all rather messy

It was just a few months ago that the CodeIgniter community began to explode with a torrent of frustration that CodeIgniter simply wasn’t progressing as a framework. There were also a few prominent developers considering abandoning the framework in favour of more active alternatives.

My favourite summary of the whole situation came in the form of a very enlightened article by Michael Wales at the end of November. One of the main problems highlighted there was the way CodeIgniter was put on the back-burner by Ellislab.

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Mar

11

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

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.

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Apr

15

Monitor Your Servers and EC2 Instances with Cacti

I recently had the job of setting up cacti on an Ubuntu an Amazon EC2 Instance, so I thought I’d share with you all how to get it running, and what you can monitor with it.

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Note: This tutorial is designed for an ubuntu based server, but will translate to most unix setups

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Mar

09

Kick-Start Your Web Application With These Tools

Building great web applications doesn’t have to be a long and slow process. In fact, people have been practicing ‘rapid development‘ for quite a while. But if you’re looking to get your web application off to a flying start, you really should consider using these great tools. They can help you get a basic shell for you application quickly and efficiently.

This isn’t by any means a complete list, but there might be a few things here that you’ve not used before.

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Mar

03

ExpressionEngine 2.0 Accepting Developer Preview Applications

Ellislab have just announced that they are now accepting developer preview applications for ExpressionEngine 2.0.

It’s been a long time coming – ExpressionEngine 2.0 was originally anticipated for the Summer 2008. But, as all good developers do, that line has changed to: “When it’s ready”.

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Feb

25

Building Web Applications That Scale

uring my time as a web developer I’ve had the opportunity to work on some application that needed serious scalability. But scaling isn’t something we always think of when we set off to build an application.

So, here’s a few tips I’ve picked up on the way that can help you build applications that are ready to scale immediately.

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Oct

25

CodeIgniter 1.7.0 – A Step in the Right Direction

It’s been quite some time since CodeIgniter has seen a major update, and this week we’ve finally got one! I actually got the news via twitter, which shows just how much of a mainstream communication platform it’s becoming!

CodeIgniter 1.7.0 has plenty of new features and bug fixes, but I’m not going to list them all. You can check out the changelog to see them all.

But I would like to point out some of the more interesting updates.

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Jun

15

CodeIgniter – One Heck of a Can Opener

As a huge CodeIgniter enthusiast, I was asked to say a few words about the framework that’s completely changed my development style. And, always wanting to give back to the community, I decided to write a little bit of text explaining exactly why I think CodeIgniter is so good.

There is also an audio version of some of the article to go along with this too.

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May

29

Building Web 2.0 Ready Applications with XML-RPC

For the last month at work I’ve been building an admin backend for a huge application. The application runs as a large Java XML-RPC server which takes request, performs database and cache operations and returns data.

At first I hated this idea, mainly because it was so different to the typical lamp development flow I was used to. However, now I’m completely converted, and I feel as though it’s my duty to share with you my experience, and preach to you the way of the divided application.

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May

16

CodeIgniter v1.6.2 Released

From CodeIgniter Official News:

We’re pleased to announce that CodeIgniter version 1.6.2 has been officially released.

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