This applies to those of you who put “social media expert, “social media guru”, “social media consultant” or “social media specialist” on your LinkedIn and other social media profiles. Who are you trying to fool? There is no such thing as being an expert in social media. Just because you know how to tweet and [...]
I am a Codeigniter lover and when FuelPHP was first announced and then shortly some code was released, I wasn’t overly impressed. In all honesty, I never gave the framework a chance. I didn’t test it, nor did I actually try and build anything with it. After trying it, I am officially impressed. I’m still [...]
Am I? I recently went and saw 127 Hours after hearing everybody rave about how great it is and the fact you get to see an awesome arm cutting scene complete with tendons and everything. And when I say went and saw I mean “downloaded for free off of the internet and watched it”, but [...]
Remember back in the day maybe late 90′s / early 00′s when you installed Windows automatic updates and you had to restart your PC after they were done? It’s 2011 and yet I still have to restart my machine after some new Windows hotfix downloads, why? I propose a soft reset instead. All your programs [...]
A deadly earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, severe flooding in North Queensland, Australia a magnitude 9.0 earthquake in Japan and a Japanese nuclear reactor in the process of a meltdown. What does this all mean? Not much apparently to the thousands of Apple zealots who waited in line to buy an iPad 2. Yes I [...]
After years of haemorrhaging money and trying to compete with the iPod, Microsoft are finally killing off the failed Zune media player. Don’t cry too much my much loathed nerds, they’re going to incorporate the Zune media player software into Windows Phone 7. In true Microsoft style, they just won’t let a product truly die. [...]
The entertainment industry nerds and bigwigs are always proclaiming that piracy is hurting box office sales and that everyone is stealing money from these massive Hollywood conglomerates, so why is it that for years now the entertainment industry has been making massive profits from movie ticket and DVD sales? I mean if these companies have [...]
Ever wanted to have plugin functionality in your Codeigniter applications similar to what WordPress has? I’ve started developing a plugin system that lets you define hooks with or without arguments, to modify certain parts of your application without your users having to edit core files. Use is mostly: add_action(), remove_action() and do_action() – but I’ll [...]
An awesome (but at the time of writing this) undocumented feature of Codeigniter Reactor is the ability to set what type of environment you are working in, including the ability to have environment specific configuration files. As a developer you’re either working in a development, testing or production environment and this makes things easier. The [...]
The recent internet shut downs in Egypt and Libya have highlighted just how easy it is to take down the internet if the governments want it disabled. Whilst it’s not a true disabling of the internet, it’s more of an organised demand that Tier-1 ISP’s stop traffic being able to flow through their networks. The [...]