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Video-casts coming

April 04th, 2008

I haven’t written here in a while, and I’m feeling pretty guilty about it. I’ve been focusing all my time on programming, and just haven’t been exploring “interesting” things as much as I usually do, so therefore not much to write about.  Anyhow, that’s going to change.  In the next little while I’ll be producing a few more video casts focused on CodeIgniter and ExpressionEngine.  I’m going to start from the perspective of how I set things up, and then expand from there, hopefully spanning a few videos to finish everything off as I need to.

I’m also about a week away from getting to re-visit some of the core functionality of CodeIgniter.  We want to reconsider paging, validation, and a few little things here and there.  But that doesn’t mean we’ve been sitting still!  Since the release of CodeIgniter 1.6.1, there have been 56 updates to the svn.  18 of them were documentation fixes - I often hear criticism along the lines of “I checked the CodeIgniter svn, but its mostly documentation fixes”; and while I know where this is coming from (as developers we want shiny new features), the documentation is among the biggest “features” of the framework.  But there were also many important security fixes, enhancements and other nice-ities in there.  Check it out (what a clever play on words).

Also, as of right now this second, nobody has been hired into the 2 positions available at EllisLab, and if you’ve been sitting on the fence, get your name in there.

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Jakob Buis wrote on April 04th, 2008 @ 9:56

I haven’t written here in a while, and I’m feeling pretty guilty about it.
You should be… :P

More videos are a great way to learn new things. Too bad almost all videos focus on ‘setup’ & ‘getting started’. I would love to see some advanced topics!

As for EllisLab, working US business hours and a weak dollar atm makes appplying a bad idea for me

jeremy wrote on April 04th, 2008 @ 17:01

more video-casts.. oh happy day! the original ones from the other derek and elliot were pretty much what sold me on codeigniter vs. various other frameworks. that and the documentation.

i remember looking at cakephp and symphony and thinking, “i put the who in the where for what, now?” even after tutorials, but with codeigniter it just was easy and made sense

great work. excited to see what you come up with.

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