Some interesting items in the past week.

Ed Finkler, the man responsible for the great CodeIgniter podcast PHP Abstract, is at it again.  This time, he’s down in Atlanta offering Intro to CodeIgniter for PHP works ‘07.  Go Ed!  If you’re in Atlanta, find that man and buy him a beer.

I’ve also seen a rise of interest in BambooInvoice recently.  Eric Davis wrote Simple and easy to use invoices - Bamboo Invoice and Customizing BambooInvoice.  Great work thanks.  My favourite quote?

The thing I like most about it is that it provides just what I need to invoice my customers; it does not try to provide accounting, supply chain management, or any other “total business solution”.

And that my friends, is why Bamboo is around.  Thanks Eric.  Nice writeup.  If anyone else has written about Bamboo, please do let me know, I’m always interested in reading those posts.

In ExpressionEngine land, there are a few neat things happening also.  Smashing Magazine, in a writable of the RubyOnRails content management system Mephisto, wrote that ExpressionEngine is the first-class engine for professionals; if you’d like to achieve the highest level of flexibility and have the full control over the outer appearance and structure of your weblogs, EE is the first option you should probably consider.

Also, Les Camacho (our fearless VP, and all around cool guy) started a weekly blog entry called “last week on the forums” where he highlights interesting and notable posts from the ExpressionEngine forums.  One of the ones that really stuck out at me was a plugin by silenz called trunchtml.  Nice work silenz.