Phil Sturgeon

Using the brilliant user system gem Devise and a gem called OmniAuth you can make a Rails application that logs in or registers users via Twitter, Facebook, Gowalla, etc with amazing ease. But once the user is logged in, how do you go about actually interacting with the API on

As soon as I saw the tweet from EllisLab that CodeIgniter 2.0-dev was available on BitBucket I instantly converted PyroCMS to run on it. I got it all working in a few hours after LOTS of headbanging, mouse throwing and blaspheming. All the bugs I found along the way

So many people are asking about the new Packages feature in CodeIgniter 2.0 that I need to put this to bed: Packages are not Modules. These are two entirely different concepts and should not be confused with each other. Modules By modules I mean any HMVC implementation such as

Sadly CodeIgniter 2.0-dev has not brought us any sort of modular/HMVC system, but luckily Modular Separation works for this new "version" with two minor tweaks. The fix was worked out a few hours after the CodeIgniter 2.0 dev code was released but I was hoping

Most applications in CodeIgniter will have various types of pages. The public frontend, a backend admin panel, perhaps some sort of moderator or staff panel, etc. Logic for these types of pages is normally copied between all of their different Controllers which means, for example,  if the way the admin

This blog has been pretty quiet for a few weeks now, mainly because I have been working on a beast of an article for NetTuts called " Working with RESTful services in CodeIgniter". It is a great feeling to finally get an article on a site as large as