Author Archives: Kenny Katzgrau

John Crepezzi and I launched GetSparks.org (the CodeIgniter package manager and repository) a little under a year ago, and the response we received from the community was overwhelmingly positive. The best part of GetSparks isn’t the site itself. It’s a moderately simple app that provides a vehicle for quickly dropping other developers’ code in your [...]

If you’ve ever had the need to investigate production issues in a load-balanced setup, you’d know why having a tool to pull down all of your remote log files into a single filtered stream can be handy. I think splunk is great at this, but in many cases, overkill. I wrote chip to accommodate this [...]

If you aren’t already familiar, a package manager and repository for CodeIgniter libraries was released last week at GetSparks.org. In the few days between then and now, some very interesting and useful packages have been submitted. There’s one for combining, minifying and caching assets, one for database scaffolding, viewing logs, geocoding, template-ing, etc. Here’s a [...]

If you’re familiar with package management, you’re aware of how awesome it can be. Yum, Apt, MacPorts, homebrew are examples of package managers on the Operating System level. Need to install some common software package like mysql? On OSX, it isn’t any harder than: $ brew install mysql For software development, you have Python’s eggs [...]

Over the weekend I put a full day into creating and completing a WordPress plugin that probably doesn’t appeal to anybody except for developers: A tool to list your github and bitbucket projects right inside a post or on your side bar. You can see it in action on my projects page. Basically, I was [...]