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My Honest Consumer Opinion of the iPad: Who Cares?
I can’t speak for the whole of technology consumers when I say that the Apple iPad, which debuted a few days ago in Apple’s Keynote, doesn’t seem terribly interesting. I’ll admit that I tend to roll on gut instinct when gauging the success of a potential product. I’ve done it as both a member of [...]
MiFi – An Aircard Alternative for Linux, Mac & Windows
I intend to finish my previous post about fixing up caching in CodeIgniter, but I wanted to write a blurb about a device that I just picked up today — the MiFi. I thought I should mention some of the highlights of the product, some points that weren’t immediately apparent when I was researching it, [...]
Flushing CodeIgniter’s URI-based Cache (Part I)
CodeIgniter’s output caching mechanism — at least in my opinion — has limited usefulness. It can be used to cache the final payload sent to the user for a given number of minutes. But sometimes clearing the cache for all pages or a specific page can be useful, especially if keeping the user from seeing [...]
Insert Multiple Rows Into A Database with CodeIgniter
When using a spiffy web application framework like CodeIgniter for PHP, I tend to start depending on the framework for a lot of functions.
For example, if I want to get the segments of the URI, I first think, “CodeIgniter must have that!” If I want a function to convert input from a <textarea> into correctly [...]
Add Files to Subversion Recursively
Adding a directory and sub-directories to your subversion repo: I’ve seen some wacky solutions to this problem online, and a lot of people don’t know this is a built-in command (Google “add files to subversion recursively”).
Since CodeFury has been getting pretty high in the Google listings, I’ll post the real command. Hopefully subversion users will [...]
Enable Site-Wide Profiling With CodeIgniter
A very cool part of CodeIgniter is its ability to give you the ‘profiling’ information for page loads. That is, if you add:
$this->output->enable_profiler(true);
In your controller before you load a view, CodeIgniter will give you information regarding how fast the page loaded, how many SQL queries executed, the content of each query, and the running time [...]
A Fine Run, and Maybe A Little More
It’s been almost a year since I mentioned the last version of wpSearch!
I owe many faithful users of wpSearch an explanation of my whereabouts. After all, the internet does not need yet another dead blog, especially when it had been fairly well read. Here’s a recap of the last year:
Figured out that I wasn’t going [...]
Updates on KLogger, wpSearch 1.5.6, and More
Since my last post, I’ve been working on and off on the next version of wpSearch. The last version (1.5.5) stands as somewhat of an official release of the plugin, and I would consider previous versions to be ‘release candidates’ due to the growth wpSearch saw since then.
I’m in my second to last semester at [...]
wpSearch 1.5.0.5 Released With Features, Fixes
After an exhausting week and a half tracking down the source of a mysterious bug in wpSearch, I think I can finally close the book on the “null result” issue that had me pouring over the source code.
wpSearch 1.5.0.5, the first official release after the 1.5 landmark, brings to the forefront some of the features [...]
KLogger: A Simple Logging Class for PHP
Since the latest release of wpSearch, a couple issues have cropped up and are slated to be fixed shortly. Some of the issues, although, are a bit harder to catch without a good set of debugging tools for PHP. The classic example of such a tool would be a log file logger.
As soon as I [...]
