So tomorrow I’m off to a two day open source conference.  Not sure how much I’ll be around for on the net, but probably a lot… but still, I wanted to mention a few things before I holed myself away to revel in geekery.  First, there are a few well known CodeIgniter community members who are doing some cool stuff, and deserve our attention.  I’m a big fan of this work, and this contribution to the community.  Guys, you don’t hear it enough.  Thanks!

• Michael Wales released “Erkana” another CodeIgniter authorization library.  Looks nice.
• Jim O’Halloran continued his excellent series “Building a Complete CodeIgniter Application” with part 3.  I never had an appropriate post for part 2 (so there you go), but I did mention part 1.
• pr0digy wrote a great little peice.  CodeIgniter - loading external libraries.  Well done.  I’ve actually been sitting on this one for a few days, as I debated using the Zend PDF engine for BambooInvoice.  This post is meant to remind me to do that.  Its been sitting marked as “unread” in my RSS feed for 17 days… time to stop hiding it and share the love ;)

Also, just a quick ExpressionEngine tip (EE doesn’t get enough of my attention on this blog, despite the fact that I spend several hours a day working with it).  If you aren’t masking your control panel... you should be.  It couldn’t be easier, and it will save you from problems like… oh I don’t know… to pull an example totally out of thin air that absolutely didn’t happen to me... your browser histroy showing it while your laptop is hooked up to a projector in a room of 50 people.  OK, I confess… it did happen to me.  Fortunately, with a masked CP, I just FTP’ed in and renamed it at break.  Easy-peasy.  Makes me glad I was masking it!

And finally, just for fun, here are 2 links that made me laugh over the last 2 days. How to survive a zombie attack (pure awesome), and the super-est.

Next up, hoping to write a bit about the conference.  I’m hoping for a chance to steal a conversation with a few Mozilla guys, and Bob Young (founder and CEO of Redhat).

Until next time!  Signed,
Little Bobby Tables