A great plugin was written for Expression Engine 1.x by Nick Cernis called Redirect301, but it was lacking support for Expression Engine 2.x- so I coded the plugin starting from Nick’s base to support it, and made a couple small … Read more…
I wanted to add a small weather status to the top of a web application, just to remind me what was going on in that city. This is some really simple code, based off of WunderGround’s API, using a city … Read more…
Google’s Nexus S (mfg. by Samsung) will officially come out for Sprint on May 8, and I was lucky to get mine a couple days early- all I can say so far, after coming from an iPhone, is that I … Read more…
What is NFC? For those who aren’t familiar with NFC (Near Field Communication), it is a growing wireless technology used for sharing data. NFC uses re-programmable tags that require no batteries or power source, they are simply powered by induction … Read more…
QR Code, 2D Barcode, Square Thing-a-ma-jig A QR (Quick Response) code is essentially a barcode used to encode information; commonly used for URL or prize codes. Popular uses for QR codes involve mobile phones that have a QR reader application … Read more…
At some point you may have encountered bit.ly or tinyurl.com link, but weren’t sure as to what it was. Bit.ly and tinyurl.com are just a few of many free URL shortening services. URL shorteners will take a URL of any … Read more…
We recently had a case where we created a huge form that had separate sections that we needed to validate, we call them “modules”. Our goal was to send all the form data to a single save function, and then … Read more…
After a lot database code, you realize that the majority of your methods take on the same structure. For a while now, I have started all of our Code Igniter models with five generic methods to interact with the database, … Read more…
When dealing with frameworks, such as Code Igniter, there is always a question of what type of overhead it adds to application. One rainy day not too long ago we ran some really simple tests on the difference between active … Read more…
Tiny PHP is a little tool we put into our labs that performs some “minification” on PHP code. Is it a trivial and completely academic exercise because PHP doesn’t benefit from being smaller like CSS or Javascript? Yes. But it’s … Read more…