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The Great Framework Experiment

Writing a book really opens your eyes to all the possiblities, and I’ve been looking for ages to write a really comprehensive guide to the most popular application frameworks on the internet today. So now I’ve finally got round to doing it, It’s really exciting. So I present to you, dear reader, this: The Great Framework [...]

Designing for Yourself

Designing for yourself is always really hard. Whenever I go through a design process targeted towards one of my own blogs, products or services, I have a huge amount of trouble. You are your own critic - and that’s the worst person to criticise your work. Every colour scheme seems wrong, every element out of place [...]

Microsoft Insights

I’ve never really been a Microsoft fan, but here I am blogging from the Microsoft FOWA stand and talking to the guys (and gals) about ASP.NET and C#.NET. In Tim Bray’s keynote this morning, he spoke about being more then an “X” developer. I’ve always considered myself to be a PHP developer, so it has been [...]

Top 5 User-Submitted CodeIgniter Libraries/Extensions

There are some wicked extensions/libraries for CodeIgniter. I’ve scowered the CodeIgniter Forums to find my top five favourite CodeIgniter Libraries/Extensions. So, in no particular order… DataMapper is a Ruby-style ORM class for CodeIgniter. It allows true ORM functionality, and it’s really easy to use! It’s also brilliantly documented. Check it out: http://codeigniter.com/forums/viewthread/90181/ Amazon S3 is a fantastic storage solution, [...]

Status Update

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 [...]

The BEST prize, in the world, ever!

No doubt you’ve heard of Carsonified. If you haven’t, they are the people who run such great events and build such great apps as Future of Web Design, Future of Web Apps and Matt. Well, they have been amazing enough to give away, for free, possibly the greatest competition prize ever imagined (excluding a pet dinosaur). And [...]

ExpressionEngine2.0 - Delayed!

It was with great regret that Rick Ellis mentioned that the brand, spanking new version of ExpressionEngine, 2.0 has been delayed! Rick and the team have been working bloody hard all summer to get an end of summer release, but now, developers will have to wait for fall. Although I personally converted back to wordpress a long [...]

Game: Merceneries 2

If anybody remembers the original Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction, they will surly remember it as a fantastic game - as indeed it was. Now the sequel has been released, on a more powerful console, it brings wonders to the already fab game, and takes it to a whole new level. Keeping the sandbox type gameplay, keeping the [...]

IgnitedScreencasts Launched!

I have officially launched IgnitedScreencasts! IgnitedScreencasts is a brand new series of screencasts covering CodeIgniter related topics! Please visit us now @ http://www.jamierumbelow.net/screencasts/

Screencasts are a-coming…

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 [...]