General

Basically everything else that isn’t related to design, coding, or scripting.

Nested Sub-folder Controllers in CodeIgniter

If you have gotten to the point where one sub-folder for your controllers just isn’t enough, you probably found a frustrating problem in CodeIgniter. Whether or not MVC Frameworks are supposed to allow nested sub-folders is debatable, however I like the organization. This post solved my problem (very simply) and I got right back to […]

Our First Big Fight

I’ve been using CodeIgniter for the past 6 months or so and while we’ve had our minor indifferences, I’ve thought of CodeIgniter to be a pretty decent PHP MVC. There was very little learning curve for me and we hit off quite easily. We were like peas and carrots. Unfortunately, as go most relationships, I […]

Remap function for CodeIgniter

I got tired of looking for this code in other projects so I wanted a handy place to keep it. In case you’re wondering, this function is a reserved method in CodeIgniter controllers that will allow for a dynamic method name to be passed into the URL. Docs on it are here: codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/controllers.html#remapping.

Backwards Text in Gmail App

I’m not sure exactly what happened here, but this is what I saw when I re-opened Chrome and my Gmail Tab that was left open got restored. Any ideas?

Why “hiding” source code is bad.

I’ve been working at my current employer for about 5 months now and since I started, I have been involved in or heard this conversation more than 10 times, which is 10 times more than I’ve heard within the past 7 years I’ve been doing web development. The client wants their source code hidden from […]