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.
Read More» | 0I 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 that!
‘CrossBrowserTesting‘, a service which lets you request VPN time on a wide range of different browsers and operating systems.
The choice is quite amazing, and the service seems pretty stable!
Read More» | 0I’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, wouldn’t it be nice if there was somewhere you could just type in your URL and see screenshots of a load of different browsers?
Read More» | 0At 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).
After an extremely long debate over at the CodeIgniter Forums, I’ve decided to compile the ‘outcome’ of this discussion here, and show you all the best practices for storing passwords in CI.
Read More» | 0There’s been a few discussions recently about optimizing CodeIgniter applications to make them faster, more reliable, and scalable.
So, let’s look at some methods of doing this, with ‘real’ numbers and benchmarks.
Read More» | 0Since I discovered Amazon’s S3 (Simple Storage Service) I’ve been curious about it.
Firstly, it has a very unusual business model; offering unlimited amounts of storage and bandwidth, charging you for what you use.
Read More» | 0Most of my subscribers are probably web developers, or have a similar profession.
And, for that reason, I thought I’d share with you a theory I have about our careers.
For almost 9 months now CodeIgniter has remained fairly static, seeing only a minor revision or two, but after an news comes from Derek Allard that version 1.6.0 is approaching completion!
Despite this new milestone release, the wise folks over at EllisLabs have decided to continue support for PHP4.
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