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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

Many frameworks say they are lightweight, quick and easy on your server, but none are as lightweight as my new "framework" which is so lightweight it can fit in a Tweet. <? $g=$_GET;$c=@$g['c']?:'Home'; if(!@include"c/$c.php&

Stable and unstable branches are something that every open-source developer, project manager, or general software user should be aware of. The idea is that while you work on a new version of your software, you maintain the current version by working on bug-fixes and small tweaks. A great example of

Most web-applications currently use automated e-mail's to let an administrator know something is going on and some applications use Twitter. Why not use iPhone Push Notifications to get an alert to you immediately without having to check a thing? If you know nothing about how Push Notifications work

Update 22/03/2010: Now that CodeIgniter 2.0 development code has been release this article is irrelevant. Please have a look at CodeIgniter 2.0: Everything you need to know. Ever since it was announced that ExpressionEngine 2.0 would be running on CodeIgniter, the forums have been jammed

There are many suggested ways to handle your assets (CSS, images, JavaScript, etc) in CodeIgniter including my very own Asset library. Some people use paths relative to the web root like this: <img src="/image/logo.gif" alt="Logo" /> This method works fine if

A question came up in the CodeIgniter forums today asking how to clear session data. After writing a big reply to answer I felt others might be interested in the various options too. The most practical, yet least thorough is to unset specific bits of user data. This following code