A few weeks ago, I mentioned that I was thinking about producing some ‘High Quality CodeIgniter Screencasts‘. I was a little torn about putting a price on these screencasts, and selling them as a way to to boost my passive income. But the feedback from you, my loyal readers and followers was great, and you all seemed to encourage me to produce them.
Kick-Ass Development Screencasts – BinaryCake
screencasts / 23rd May 2009 / By Elliot
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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.
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Hosting Websites – Shared or Dedicated?
For years I’ve been developing websites. And hosting is always a major issue to consider from the very start of the development process. But, there’s always one big question. Should one choose a hosting company to host their website on a shared server, or is it worth getting a dedicated server? Lets first look at [...]
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Introducing Inferno – CodeIgniter + Libraries
featured / 18th August 2008 / By Elliot
For quite some time I’ve been fed up of downloading PHP Classes and having to modify them to turn them into CodeIgniter Libraries. I’ve also longed to have a version of CodeIgniter that’s pre-filled with lots of really cool and useful libraries. Ready to use on the fly, or autoloaded on every request. Well, I’d [...]
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Building Web 2.0 Ready Applications with XML-RPC
dev / 29th May 2008 / By Elliot
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 [...]
