Author Archives: Kenny Katzgrau

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 [...]

Brief but intense “holy shit” moments have been hitting me quite a bit in the last couple weeks. For the last 5 years, my social networking experience has largely consisted of Facebook, and I took it for granted as an application that was just really good at what it did. Maybe that’s even what Zuck [...]