The Hanging Tree
Ben Roberts watched as the warm evening sun slowly folded itself into what would become the night sky. He sat on one of the ornate benches that the council had placed around the Green. People sat on...
View ArticleGetting Started With Laravel PHP
If you code for the web, you’ll most likely have seen all the fuss about the Laravel PHP framework. I’ve decided to take a look and see what all the fuss is about. Like many developers, I’ve spent...
View ArticleHow To Paginate Search Results With CodeIgniter 2.1
This article shows you how to go about paginating search results with CodeIgniter. The paginate library available in the CodeIgniter framework is very useful. It is also straightforward to implement....
View ArticleGetting Started With Kohana PHP
CodeIgniter is a rock solid PHP framework. Its biggest flaw is that its not integrated with PHPUnit. The Kohana framework is though, and it feels a lot like CodeIgniter. Lets take a first look at...
View ArticleHow To Create a Kohana Contact Form
Kohana works well with third party code libraries. In this article I’ll go through how we can wire up a basic Kohana contact form for your web app using the excellent Swift Mailer library. If you are...
View ArticleLayouts With Laravel 4.0
Layouts with laravel 4.0 are easy to implement, and don’t require any extra libraries. Not only that, but it is easy to create default content, and seamlessly replace it with unique content. You can...
View ArticleCodeIgniter And Bootstrap
CodeIgniter and Bootstrap work well together. Especially if we add a layout library, and a resource from the CodeIgniter Sparks repository. I’ll cover creating a simple web app using Twitter bootstrap...
View ArticleHow To Install The Kindle App On Ubuntu 13.04
I’ve just upgraded to Ubuntu 13.04 and decided to try and get the Kindle app working. It was surprisingly easy, here’s what I did. First, there is no Ubuntu version of the Kindle app. I […]The post How...
View ArticleGetting Started With Laravel PHP
If you code for the web, you’ll most likely have seen all the fuss about the Laravel PHP framework. I’ve decided to take a look and see what all the fuss is about. Like many […]The post Getting Started...
View ArticleHow To Paginate Search Results With CodeIgniter
This article shows you how to go about paginating search results with CodeIgniter. The paginate library available in the CodeIgniter framework is very useful. It is also straightforward to implement....
View ArticleCentOS 6.4 and PHP 5.3
In the first article, I described how I set up CentOS 6.4 including with Apache to get ready for web development. In this article, I’ll describe what I did to get CentOS and PHP 5.3 […]The post CentOS...
View ArticleGetting Started With Sinatra
Sinatra is a popular web development framework that uses the Ruby programming language. If you are looking to get started with Ruby On Rails, Sinatra provides a great introduction to building web apps...
View ArticleHow To Cope With Shin Splints
Shin splints is a generic term used to describe exercise-induced pain in the front of your lower leg. It happens when you have exercised for an extended period of time, or suddenly change your workout...
View ArticleHow To Install RVM On Snow Leopard
If you still have to run RVM on Snow Leopard so that you can use an up to date version of Ruby, you can. But there are specific tasks you’ll need to complete first. Here, […]The post How To Install RVM...
View ArticleUsing The CodeIgniter Calendar Class
The CodeIgniter calendar class is available for creating data-driven calendars for your web apps. What follows is a walk through on how I implemented the calendar class for a simple tasks web app. So...
View ArticleLayouts With Laravel 4.0
Layouts with laravel 4.0 are easy to implement, and don’t require any extra libraries. Not only that, but it is easy to create default content, and seamlessly replace it with unique content. You can...
View ArticleInstalling a LAMP Stack on Ubuntu 13.10
Installing a LAMP stack on Ubuntu 13.10 is almost the same has it has been for several versions. Almost. Apache has had an update in the way that the sites available config works, So, here’s a walk...
View ArticleLearning Rails is Hard
Developing web apps with Rails is not easy. Learning Rails is not easy either. There are a number of issues that make it less user friendly that other development stacks. But why is that exactly? I’ve...
View ArticlePagination With CodeIgniter
This article shows you how to go about paginating search results with CodeIgniter. The paginate library available in the CodeIgniter framework is very useful. It is also straightforward to implement....
View ArticleLayouts with Laravel 4.2
In this post you’ll see how you can create layouts quickly and easily using the Blade template system built into the Laravel framework. First, I’m new to Laravel having recently started taking a...
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