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Your thoughts: why so negative?
I came across this post on TechCrunch yesterday about SitePoints new project Flippa. I’m a fan of SitePoint, have been for many years, but I have not used any of their auction or design services. The thing that struck me the most about this situation is how negative the feedback and responses have been in [...]
Simplified Compatibility Checking
Fever, a new RSS feed reading application, just launched recently. Many of you might be familiar with the developer Shaun Inman from his popular stats tracking app Mint. I haven’t personally used Mint but I’m a huge fan of RSS feeds so when I heard about Fever I had to give it a shot. I [...]
Speedy Subscriptions Using Spreedly (Part 2) – Account Configuration
If you’ve ever accepted payments with PayPal you’ll know all the magic is in the settings/configuration. There are tons of configuration options that you can modify to make PayPal work just the way you like. The same holds true for Spreedly. The developers have paid attention to detail and provided us with the ability to [...]
Speedy Subscriptions Using Spreedly (Part 1) – Overview & Account Setup
I developed Sign-Up-Sheet.com four years ago first as a sandbox project for learning Ruby on Rails (RoR). After becoming disillusioned with RoR, I redeveloped the app in PHP using CodeIgniter (CI) and that’s where it’s been ever since. Every once and a while I try to add a new feature here or there but find [...]
Facebook Connect Library for CodeIgniter
Just a brief follow-up to the post series I did a while back on Implementing Facebook Connect with CI. Today, Elliot Haughin continued his tradition of releasing helpful CI libraries and published a new library for implementing Facebook Connect using CodeIgniter. Haven’t had a chance to review it personally yet but I would imagine it’s [...]
Support the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
“The U.S. Department of Justice reports that in a one-year period of time 797,000 children were reported missing. That is an average of 2,100 children reported missing each day. 1,682,900 children ran away or were thrown away. 203,900 children were abducted by family members. 198,300 children were involuntarily missing, lost or injured. 58,200 children were [...]
Building Applications using CodeIgniter (Part 4) – Code Templates
Last July I wrote a post entitled “What does your code say about you?” In that post I discuss the importance of writing clean well formatted code. It’s vitally important, even if you are the only programmer working on a project, that you document and format your code because you may be the only programmer [...]
Building Applications using CodeIgniter (Part 3) – Helpers
So far in this series we’ve discussed framework/application structure and configuration information. The next thing I always add to new applications is some common helper files I’ve developed and that come in handy in most projects. CodeIgniter (CI) helpers are very flexible tools to assist with common tasks throughout the app. If it doesn’t belong [...]
Your thoughts: Do web apps need offline components?
I’ve seen a lot of discussion over the last couple of months about things like Google Gears and Adobe Air, technologies that make it easier to develop web applications that can be run/accessed from the desktop. The more I consider this concept the more I scratch my head in confusion. I have had a request [...]
Building Applications using CodeIgniter (Part 2) – Configuration
The framework that you use to build your application will end up being the foundation of your program. Everything that your program does will revolve around how that framework works. Things like naming conventions, file paths and settings are dictated by the framework. But if you have chosen a good framework, like CodeIgniter (CI), you [...]
