Codeigniter’s lack of an authentication system is both a blessing and a curse. The blessing is that you don’t need to conform to a pre-written and and conventionalised auth library, the curse is that writing your own can cause severe headachaes and countless hours of developing something that comes standard in most other PHP frameworks.
I am a huge fan of CakePHP’s authentication library, it has an ACL and Auth system baked in, which works really well and is super extensible, but the framework itself is a proverbial piece of shit disguised as a PHP framework.
This post is not against electric vehicles, I’m all for electric vehicles, but sadly a lot of people don’t truly understand what eco friendly means. Non-harmful and respectful of the environment and its inhabitants, not emitting pollution into the atmosphere. If you think electric cars are truly eco friendly then you’ve been had.
Every touts electric cars as being the better alternative and the bonus is they reduce our dependence on oil (which is an awesome thing). However people fail to take into account that electricity is still produced in quite a of countries by non eco friendly means. Not every country has nuclear power (even that can cause troubles with the environment). Australia amongst others rely on coal for electricity generation.
There was an explosion at a factory in Taiwan last week, the factory just so happened to be a Foxconn owned factory that manufactures Apple parts including those for the new iPad 2, did you hear?
Apparently 3 people died and 15 were injured, but wait… DOES THAT MEAN WE ALL HAVE TO WAIT LONGER FOR AN IPAD 2 NOW!!!!?
That’s what everybody seems to be more concerned about. Never mind 3 people lost their lives, never mind they probably had children or wives/husbands at home. All everyone seems to be concerned with is a delay to the iPad 2 manufacturing process. Seriously, what the fuck?
It’s amazing the difference a year can make. This article is pretty outdated now, I’ve since written a follow-up which addresses the comparative points of both frameworks a little easier and in-depth. Both frameworks have evolved since I wrote this, check out the updated comparison here.
I’ve been getting a lot of traffic off Google from people searching “Codeigniter vs FuelPHP”, so I thought I would write a post explaining the advantages and disadvantages of each. Whilst FuelPHP might appear to be a new kid on the block, the similarities between Codeigniter and FuelPHP aren’t that much in terms of performance, coding or speed.
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 create a Facebook account does not make you an expert.
My 14 year old sister knows how to do all of that, I guess she should drop out of school and start doing full time social media consulting, she is an expert after all, right?
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 would close, you would be logged out and your machine would apply the updates and then you log back in. It’s a pain in the ass waiting for my PC to restart when it shouldn’t have too.
The Zune is finally dead.
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. At the time of writing this a Zune HD 16gb will still set you back over $300 on eBay, a device that was released in 2009 still costs $300? No wonder the Zune failed.
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 go in depth later on.
Documentation is sparse for now, but if you’re a seasoned programmer you should understand how it works. There is a partial plugin example in the repo too.
Freedom of speech for the win. Sony are trying to remove this code from the internet because it effectively lets you sign any piece of software to run on the Playstation 3 console as if it were 100% legit without the use of firmware hacks and exploits. This is the equivalent of a master key, it unlocks the entire console allowing you to install anything.
The image below is a screenshot of someone tricking a faux representative of Sony into Tweeting the Playstation 3 security key for all to see on the internet.
Nobody uses IE7 any more (well 91% of people on the internet at least). Sure, your mother probably still uses Internet Explorer 7 because she’s stupid and doesn’t know anything about computers (you still have to show her where the power button is sometimes), but the market share of IE7 is currently sitting around 9% – I think it’s time we drop this archaic piece of shit.
Whoaaa, wait just a minute Dwayne. My mother uses IE7 and she thinks it’s great! if you were any smarter than your mother you would upgrade her browser while she was in the kitchen cooking your dinner. But the dramatic change of the icon for Internet Explorer might be too much for her, or perhaps you’re just making excuses.