JamieRumbelow.net“Mm, that is one tasty burger!”

I realise I haven’t been posting recently - partly due to getting as many comments as I could on the Carsonified Golden Ticket (which I didn’t win by the way, thanks guys)  and also because I’ve been obscenely busy.

I’m writing a book, launching loads of stuff and working like mad on a new design for my blog.

Just thought I’d give a quick status update. If you want to know about my daily goings on (which you probably don’t) then check out my twitter.

When I was trying to learn CodeIgniter originally, the learning resources were a bit… empty. There were very few good hands on tutorials, and the screencasts were very limited.

When you look at RailsCasts, and how much it has helped the rails community, it’s a bit of a shame that CodeIgniter doesn’t have an equivelent.

So, thinking this, I rolled up my sleves and got to work.

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I was trying out that “Install Mac on your PC” thing, and it installed great. Then the bootloader crashed. I reformatted my hard drive (rather stupidly) and lost everything. Great.

So, I’m in the airport the other day, and I see a copy of Linux Format magazine. It looks all right, and it had a nice little tutorial on python, so I grabbed it. When I’m back home, I put the live DVD that comes with Linux Format, and load up Fedora 9.

I am rather intrigued.

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If this is the first time you have visited my blog, you won’t have noticed a difference. But if you are a seasoned “JamieRumbelow.net-er”, you will be able to easily see that I have changed the theme. And if you scroll right to the bottom, you will see that it says “Juiced by Wordpress”.

I know Derek Allard is going to hate me, but I have made the decision to switch from ExpressionEngine back to Wordpress.

Why, you ask?

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Well, we last left off at configuring and loading the database, and now, we will move onto queries, SQL, caching and result management!

This is part two of my two part tutorial, The Guide to CI Databases. If you haven’t already, please have a look at part one. You can find it Here.

I’ve nicked a few bits from the user guide, just FYI

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