Updated my Projects!
As a Christmas Holiday present to those of you that are using my CodeIgniter tools, CI-UserTracking and GeSHi for CI, I did something very philanthropic: I updated them and tested them on the latest version of CodeIgniter.
Oh, and I also fixed the links…
..and I put them in their very own Google Code pages, so you can peruse the source code, download from Google servers, and leave comments and tickets for yours truly.
AND.. as your Hanukkah/New Years/Participation gift, I also have added a brand new CodeIgniter project that I’m working on called CI Headstart with all kinds of helpers, libraries, and other goodies to help speed up development even more. Roll on over to the Code page to check it all out.
Now that Christmas break is upon us, and I since I work for a University that gives employees like a bazillion days off each December, I hope to clean these up even more and provide some quality documentation.
Happy Holidays from me to you,
PS >> If anybody is interested in contributing code to these projects, let me know.
Biting the Distributed Development Bullet
Like most development n00bs, after I started using version control, I never looked back. And neither should you.
It required me to change the whole way that my office operated, though. See, the way that we were doing things before seemed so simple; we just edited files and shouted at each other if we collided in our editing. As it turns out, this was a bad thing, and there have been better alternatives around way longer than I’ve even been in this business.
But like most crotchety, over-egotistical developer-types it took a while for me to come around. Here’s a brief history of my flirtations and eventual commitment to version control.
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Teaching PHP: Course Curriculum
The problem, succinctly stated, is: How do you best organize 14 weeks of study to teach PHP to a group of motivated College students?
I know they must be pretty motivated, because they’re signing up for the class despite the fact that it starts at 8 am.
This Fall, I will be teaching a course in Web Application Development at FSU. The topic will be server-side scripting, and the focus will be PHP. Since I’ve taught this course before, developing the curriculum won’t take months, but I am nevertheless spending a fair amount of time updating and tweaking for the next go-around.
CodeIgniter Preflight Checker
In my last post, I discussed do’s and don’ts for making a PHP application portable. This week, I will show you how to create a preflight checker in the CodeIgniter PHP framework to ensure that an environment will support your application.
I am an IT Professional in Tallahassee, Florida with a degree in Information Science.