DerekAllard.com : CodeIgniter, ExpressionEngine, and the World of Web Design

Video tutorial link from Code Igniter

October 03^rd, 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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Daily Reading List

July 28^th, 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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Kill All Humans Wordpress Theme

July 03^rd, 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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No Comments?

May 27^th, 2006

Update: OK, I give. Commenting will now be available on most posts. (November 13, 2006)

What the?!? Where can I leave comments on DerekAllard.com? It is a blog right? You bet, but I’ve decided to disable comments by default, and here’s why…Actually, Jeremy Keith pretty much summed it up perfectly on his blog. For me, the added effort of moderating, filtering and responding to comments just doesn’t make sense here. Let me stress that. It doesn’t make sense for this blog. I’m not saying that they never make sense, but the goals of this blog are:

• keeping friends and colleagues updated on what I’m doing
• tracking the development of BambooInvoice
• a place for me to write about internet technologies

None of those goals are really served by enabling comments. So if you want to reach me, please by all means do, I love getting feedback - but you won’t be able to do it via comments.

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First Post

May 21^st, 2006

… or "frist prost" if you read Slashdot.

The purpose of this blog is threefold. First, its a convenient way for me to stay in touch with current and former students. I’m a fairly prolific instructor, and I meet so many interesting people. It’s a shame to lose touch after the course is done, so this is one way to try to stay in touch.
I also wanted to use this blog to track the development and process of BambooInvoice, my open-source project. I describe BambooInvoice as Simple, beautiful, open source online invoicing. It is built on top of the excellent Code Igniter framework.

Finally, its just a convenient place to dump my thoughts on XHTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP and the world of web programming in general!

So welcome, and thanks for reading.

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