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Code Ingiter video tutorial

September 28th, 2006

There’s been some interest in the past for video tutorials that are a bit more advanced.

What I’ve done is created a 20 minute (yeah, I wish it was shorter too) video tutorial where I tried to use some advanced techniques. In it, I tried to hit on AJAX usage, the scriptaculous library for both visual effects and an autocompleting search form, models, and unobtrusive javascript techniques.

This is not a gentle introduction into Code Igniter. I spend hardly any time explaining how to set up controllers and views. The target audience is really people who have hacked around with CI a bit, and are wanting some insight into how somebody else does it. I don’t claim my techniques are perfect, but I’m betting that a little insight into someone else’s mind might be useful, and I think generally web devs could benefit from more CSS and unobtrusive javascript.

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Quick Link: Explaining Today’s Marmaduke in 500 words or less

September 26th, 2006

Joe Mathlete has created an absolutley hilarious blog entitled Joe Mathlete Explains Today’s Marmaduke. A great 5 mintue break when you should really be coding.

… get back to work!

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Derek Allard

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]

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