Archive for August, 2008
CI gets a pat on the back!
I just read a post on Sitepoint where the author, David Peterson, commented on a talk he saw Rasmus Lerdorf give. For those of you who don’t know, Lerdorf is the father of PHP and is still involved in it’s development. In this talk, Lerdorf decided to talk about PHP frameworks and why the majority [...]
Great Advice
I was wandering through my RSS feeds this morning and came across a mention of a post written by Aaron Swartz entitled How To Launch Software. In it he talks about the benefits of launching software slowly and carefully vs. quickly and flashy. I totally agree with him and think you should check out his [...]
10 Tools for Beginning Bloggers
Everyone has a blog nowadays, right? Not quite, but everyday more people start blogging about their passions, experiences, businesses and dreams. Below is a list of 10 tools that will help bloggers just starting out to get up and running quickly and start spreading their word throughout the web.
CI Inferno
For those CI fans out there that don’t follow Elliot Haughins blog, he released an awesome project yesterday called Inferno. The idea here is to create a version of CI that has a bunch of third party code libraries already installed and ready for use. This could equate to a big time saver for those [...]
Skills Every IT Person Needs
My dad sent me a link to a great article this morning called 30 Skills Every IT Person Needs published by CIO. It’s got some good ones on there like points 5, 10 and 15. Check it out and see how your skills compare.
Blog Action Day 2008
For those of you that haven’t heard of Blog Action Day yet, it’s one single day out of the year where blog owners are asked to come together and all write about a single issue. I think this is an awesome idea and I’m definitely going to see what I can do to help. This [...]
Gary Vaynerchuk
I had never heard of Gary Vaynerchuk until I saw him on Chris Pirllo’s web site one day. After I found out how to spell his name I did a little research and subscribed to his blog. He posted a great short video today about a mantra he uses for success.
Surprise Your Customers
I have a subscription to National Geographic Adventure magazine, the photos in it kick ass and I also enjoy dreaming of running off to the bizzare destinations they write about. Anyway, about a month ago I came across a brightly colored full page add for a web site called Zappos. After visiting the site and [...]
Generating PDF files using CodeIgniter
PDF files rock! Some of the programs used to view them could use some work, but the file format itself is real handy. As a programmer I have found PDF’s to be most helpful when generating reports that need to be printable. I know we are all supposed to be doing our part to make [...]
