October 24th, 2006
function cure_cancer()
{
$this->load->folding('code_igniter');
}
I’ve started a folding team for Code Igniter, and put up a quick team page.
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October 23rd, 2006
Those of you who know me know that I spend a lot of time teaching. I've even won a few pretty nice teaching awards for it (other award was at Seneca College). So I was very surprised to hear what my students really thought of me�
Now I have a complex!
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October 18th, 2006
Get it while it’s steaming…
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October 15th, 2006
One of the great things about Code Igniter is the community that has built up around it. They write plugins, offer enhancements, and welcome new users openly in the forums. One of the interesting things the community has done is write many language translations for the framework. ReynierPM has written spanish language translations, which I’ve offered to host for him here on derekallard.com.
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October 07th, 2006
I was surprised that there weren’t list helper functions in the html helper, so I wrote one. Below is a list helper for the html helper to generate ordered and unordered lists from an array.
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October 03rd, 2006
The video tutorial I created for Code Igniter has been graciously linked to off the Code Igniter Videos page, and credit was given. Excellent, thanks Rick!
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September 28th, 2006
There’s been some interest in the past for video tutorials that are a bit more advanced.
What I’ve done is created a 20 minute (yeah, I wish it was shorter too) video tutorial where I tried to use some advanced techniques. In it, I tried to hit on AJAX usage, the scriptaculous library for both visual effects and an autocompleting search form, models, and unobtrusive javascript techniques.
This is not a gentle introduction into Code Igniter. I spend hardly any time explaining how to set up controllers and views. The target audience is really people who have hacked around with CI a bit, and are wanting some insight into how somebody else does it. I don’t claim my techniques are perfect, but I’m betting that a little insight into someone else’s mind might be useful, and I think generally web devs could benefit from more CSS and unobtrusive javascript.
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September 26th, 2006
Joe Mathlete has created an absolutley hilarious blog entitled Joe Mathlete Explains Today’s Marmaduke. A great 5 mintue break when you should really be coding.
… get back to work!
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August 29th, 2006
Tim McCormack has an excellent summary of Javascript object literal namespacing.
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August 27th, 2006
Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards.
I’ve written and posted a Microformats Helper on the Code Igniter wiki. This helper is meant to ease the creation of various well known microformats. Currently, the most popular hCard format is supported. Edit: license is also now supported.
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