Found via the watchmaker project, I present the coolest business card I’ve ever seen!

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CodeIgniter Directory is aims to become a centralized point to find resources for CodeIgniter, an Open Source PHP framework . You will find here CodeIgniter related blog links, websites, tutorials, applications and libraries or helpers that will help you in your everyday programmer’s life - description stolen blatantly and unapologetically from their about page ;)

A stunning parallax effect, very nicely explained in a tutorial.  How to recreate Silverback’s Parallax

A few days ago I mentioned that 24ways.org was back up for this year.  Well, it seems there’s another good read available!  Chris Shifflet is posting 24 PHP articles from guest authors on his website.  I just got through “Writing Code is Like Doing the Dishes (5 Reasons Why Documenting Your Code Makes You a Better Coder).” by Elizabeth Naramore and I have to say that I really enjoyed it.

So add one more stop to your daily RSS and follow along with the fun.

I stumbled across two noteworthy CodeIgniter blog posts today when reading the forums today, that I wanted to share.

• Favio wrote Forms in CodeIgniter Views.  Essentially, what they’ve done is created a controller that takes the data you feed it (as a csv via a textarea) and generates all the validiation rules for you, as well as the forms.  Looks very promising, and is a clever solution.
• Jonathan Abbett posted instructions on how he uses Oracle with PHP and CodeIgniter.  Its well written, step by step, and hopefully will be useful for you.

There’s a lot of exciting things happening in the CI community recently - its hard to keep up with everything.

24Ways quickly became everyones favourite daily visit in 2005, followed it up with a great 2006, and since today is 2007, has started again today.  I just love the concept.

That said, the first entry is Transparent PNGs in Internet Explorer 6.  Personally, while I’ll ensure my stuff “works” in IE6, I’m not going out of my way to support it anymore. Can someone please explain to me why we’re still supporting IE6?

I should also mention Matthew Pennel‘s article “Easy cross-browser transparency”, of which this reminds me.

From Eric Barnes, a quick and straightforward summary of CodeIgniter and SimplePie.

A few weeks old, but a great one.  Just found it again today and felt compelled to put it here.  From xkcd.com.

Matthew Pennel (of The Watchmaker Project) just wrote a short and very clear article on Digital-Web Magazine on handling contact forms with PHP entitled “Building a Bulletproof Contact Form with PHP”.  If you are new to the topic, or are just looking to get that contact form set up and working, then for sure, give it a read.

Great work Matthew!

CodeIgniter developer Michael Wales started an interesting kind of tutorial today, as he live blogged it.

I think we’re all familar with Live Blogging, the act of updating a specific blog posts continuously through an Expo or something of that nature. Today I’m going to try something a little bit new here - a live tutorial. We’ll be creating a very basic blog using the CodeIgniter framework - I’m not going to run through Installation of a web server or anything like that. Just make sure you have a fresh install of CodeIgniter up and ready to go.

Interesting work Michael, and I hope we see more of this!