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 [...]

CodeIgniter v1.6.2 Released

From CodeIgniter Official News:
We’re pleased to announce that CodeIgniter version 1.6.2 has been officially released. This release includes more than 29 bug fixes and 34 feature additions and enhancements. Among these are some improvements to Active Record and transactional database interaction, the introduction of a constants file, improvements to the Zip library, a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]