Monthly Archives: September 2008
Google’s Building a Boat!
I just read an interesting post from the NY Times Freakonomics blog about Goggles potential plans to set some of their data centers afloat. I’ve read discussions about floating data centers before, just not related to Google.
Carsonified Giveaway
The folks over at Carsonified are holding a contest where the prize is free admission to ALL of their 2009 events. All you have to is write a blog post, get people to leave comments and you will entered for the drawing. If interested, check out the post for more details.
Customizing Domains With Wildcard DNS
It seems to be the “in” feature of most modern web apps today. Giving your users the ability to create a custom URL that they can use to access their account like http://chickenbbq.sign-up-sheet.com. From a feature stand point its nice because it’s another way users can customize your app to their specifications. From a developers perspective however it can be a bit challenging to implement if you don’t know what your doing.
Behind the scenes at Digg
The folks over at Digg recently started a blog and today posted about the Digg architecture and how things work from a physical hardware standpoint. If your curious, check it out.
How to use reCAPTCHA with CI
Image by mathowie via Flickr SPAM… a nasty little four letter word. Could mean tasty meat in a can or could mean junk e-mails and form submissions clogging your server and taking up space in your inbox. We are all familiar with it and are engaged in a constant battle to stop it. In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to implement a popular 3rd party CAPTCHA service with your CodeIgniter application.
New Microsoft Add
I saw the new Microsoft TV add this morning with Jerry Seinfield and I think it’s great. Funny and entertaining yes, but I’m not really all that sure what it’s trying to sell or explain.
What would you like to see built?
I wrote a post the other day asking if any developers would be interested in getting together and writing a tutorial series for CI. The discussion has generated some interest, so now I’m trying to see what users would like to see built. I think that if we define what we will be working on we might be able to generate some more interest from developers. Head over to the discussion and voice your opinion.
Google browser?
So here I am on a Tuesday, that feels a lot like a Monday, and I come across a number of posts in my Google Reader about Google coming out with a web browser of their own called Chrome. Huh?? Google made a web browser?? I was just saying the other day that what we needed was one more web browser in the world.
Want to help me write a tutorial?
With the new version of CodeIgniter on the horizon I think it would be cool if we could get a group of developers together and build a tutorial series based on using CI to build a large scale web app. I think this has been attempted before but I’m not sure if anything has ever been produced as a result. So far the idea has gotten some positive feedback on the forums but no developers have indicated that they would be interested in participating. If this is something you would like to see done or if you would like to participate, head over to the discussion and let me know.
Who is Chris Monnat?
Chris Monnat (aka mrtopher) is a web application developer and entrepreneur located in Alexandria, VA. This site is his island of information where he blogs about CodeIgniter, PHP programming, business topics, the Internet as a whole and other miscellaneous bits and bytes.
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