July 28th, 2006
Staying up to date in the field of web-design is a really tough job. One of the best ways to stay on top of the game is to read… a lot. Here are some of the sites I make frequent visits to:
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July 24th, 2006
Update May 31, 2008. There's been some interest in the post recently. CodeIgniter has evolved considerably since I first wrote this, and the Auth library as it stands now is not something that I wrote. There are many good alternatives for user authentication in CI.
A new release of the userauth management framework for Code Igniter has been made available.
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July 20th, 2006
Update May 31, 2008. There's been some interest in the post recently. CodeIgniter has evolved considerably since I first wrote this, and the Auth library as it stands now is not something that I wrote. There are many good alternatives for user authentication in CI.
Update: Peccavio has taken over this project from me. The new home is http://tomcode.com/inside/codeigniter/userauth/test/.
Code Igniter is meant to be a flexible, agile and light PHP framework. As such, for philosophical reasons it does not include a user authentication or management component (it would look different for each user). That said, user management is one of the most commonly requested features, and since I needed one for The Shakespeare XML Project, I decided to build my own Code Igniter User Authentication/Management Library.
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July 05th, 2006
After a brief posting in the Code Igniter Forums, I decided to play with some possible Code Ingiter icons.
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July 03rd, 2006
Update: I've stopped all development of the Wordpress theme. This blog is now powered by a custom built Code Igniter application, so the theme just wouldn't work anyhow. ;)
The theme used on DerekAllard.com is a custom build Wordpress theme that I’ve called “Kill All Humans”. It features beatiful original artwork from Simon Oxley (used with permission) and on the fly flash replacement.
More about this theme will be posted here as it evolves, including the source files for the flash if you wanted to implement it yourself.
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I'm Derek Allard, a programmer, author, and award-winning instructor. I'm also Technology Architect at EllisLab, and the programmer behind BambooInvoice, a simple, Open Source, web-based invoicing application. [more about Derek]
