After over a year since EllisLab announced they would be discontinuing development of Codeigniter and finding a new owner and or owners, EllisLab have finally announced they have found a suitable owner to take over the Codeigniter framework and brand.
Whew! Lengthy search and process is winding down. @codeigniter has a new home. Details will follow soon.
— EllisLab (@EllisLab) August 22, 2014
The owner nonetheless is the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) who have a course that teaches Codeigniter amongst other things, so they have a vested interest in seeing the framework continue to thrive and evolve.
My soon-to-be wife recently purchased a HP Envy M6 laptop because it fits her needs of blogging, listening to music, photos, social media and watching video (she isn’t a gamer). However, she soon encountered issues with the trackpad.
It seems HP and their middle-line laptops have some history when it comes to trackpads becoming unresponsive and buggy. This is the model of laptop with the A10 processor, 6gb of ram and 15.6" touch screen.
I used to be and am still at times, an avid Adobe Fireworks user. I strongly believe it was ahead of its time and it wasn’t given a proper chance to be the standout premier web design tool that many realised it was.
Recently after moving to a MacBook Pro, I have started playing around with Sketch 3. I think it is fantastic, a great design tool and above all, really snappy (the exportable SVG feature is great).
As I write this I am sitting on a plane at 32,000 feet, about 5 hours into my 13 hour flight from Brisbane Australia to Los Angeles, USA.
Unknown to many I am actually terrified of flying. From the moment I know we are boarding, to the taxi, instructional video, take-off and then subsequent ascent into the skies I am having a panic attack each time (sometimes worse than others).
Recently I encountered a dreaded issue whilst trying to install Laravel on my Mac OSX machine.
The message I was getting was:
Allowed memory size of 536870912 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 72 bytes) in phar:///usr/local/Cellar/composer/1.0.0-alpha8/libexec/composer.phar/src/Composer/DependencyResolver/RuleSetGenerator.php on line 123
The issue was perplexing according to PHP I had allocated 128mb of memory for PHP, but apparently this wasn’t enough. It appears as though dependencies are managed within memory and all of the components that make up Laravel (mostly Symfony) take up more than 128mb of memory.
After recently deciding to switch to Navicat on my MacBook Pro from Sequel Pro, I encountered an issue where Navicat couldn’t connect to my MySQL server using either localhost or the local IP of 127.0.0.1. This is because MAMP will start the MySQL server using a socket. This just means you need to tell Navicat where your socket server is.
When creating a new connection you should see tabs; General, Advanced, SSL, SSH and HTTP. We want to specify the socket in the advanced tab.
A little unknown ability in Filezilla FTP client is the fact you can use private keys to connect to remote servers without a password. While in the site manager where you add and remove sites to connect to there is no option to provide a private key, it is actually somewhere else.
Go to the menu bar along the top: Click edit and then settings. A settings popup box should appear now with a whole heap of different options to select, but we are going to be clicking “SFTP” – you should now see some text mentioning public key authentication. This is where we will load our key.
After not long posting about the weaknesses in the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus screen glass, reports of iPhone 6 Plus phones bending after being in your pockets have been emerging.
The weakness appears to be due to the fact the cut-outs for the volume buttons weaken the aluminium enclosure when pressure is applied.
A Youtube tech blogger Lewis Hilsenteger bent the iPhone 6 Plus on camera and while he did need to apply pressure, the phone did indeed bend.
By default Mac OS (Mavericks for me) doesn’t ship with pre-configured support for reading and writing to NTFS drives. You can read them, but you can’t write to them.
As I previously wrote in a post, you can enable NTFS write support in Mac OS Mavericks and up, but it involves a few steps and is more of a hack. This is where Paragon NTFS for Mac comes into the fold.
Apple’s much touted new feature in iOS 8 is the inability for lawful law enforcement requests to unlock their phone without the passcode.
In previous versions of iOS, law enforcement officials could obtain a phone and send it to Apple to get it unlocked, because of a change in how phones are encrypted, Apple can no longer do this.
But there is another way for law enforcement and attackers to still get in: guessing the passcode. To contrary belief, most passcodes are easily guessable for law enforcement or an attacker as people generally only use a small subset of criteria for their passcodes.