November 02nd, 2006
So we've folded over 3500 points, and the number of active folders is growing every day! Keep it up all!
You can visit the Code Igniter Folding Team page to learn more about folding, or for instructions on joining us.
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October 31st, 2006
Hot on the heels of Firefox2, another magnificent piece of software has been released. Code Igniter 1.5 is out and now available for download!
It contains loads of new improvements and enhancements including database caching, a table class, an FTP library, and download helpers. Even implemented are versions of a list helper, and table->clear()!
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October 24th, 2006
Get it now. http://www.mozilla.com/
Good God I hate the new location of the tab closing button.
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October 24th, 2006
function cure_cancer()
{
$this->load->folding('code_igniter');
}
I’ve started a folding team for Code Igniter, and put up a quick team page.
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October 23rd, 2006
Those of you who know me know that I spend a lot of time teaching. I've even won a few pretty nice teaching awards for it (other award was at Seneca College). So I was very surprised to hear what my students really thought of me!
Now I have a complex!
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October 18th, 2006
Get it while it's steaming!
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October 15th, 2006
One of the great things about Code Igniter is the community that has built up around it. They write plugins, offer enhancements, and welcome new users openly in the forums. One of the interesting things the community has done is write many language translations for the framework. ReynierPM has written spanish language translations, which I’ve offered to host for him here on derekallard.com.
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October 07th, 2006
I was surprised that there weren’t list helper functions in the html helper, so I wrote one. Below is a list helper for the html helper to generate ordered and unordered lists from an array.
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October 03rd, 2006
The video tutorial I created for Code Igniter has been graciously linked to off the Code Igniter Videos page, and credit was given. Excellent, thanks Rick!
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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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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]
