I have been to several conferences, unconferences and local BathCamp meets, but this years proper BathCamp was a real chuckle. BathCamp is BarCamp event which is basically a bunch of web geeks, some lightning talks, throw in some pizza, a free bar, some Family Fortunes and a lot of tweed and you've got the general idea. This years event came at a great timing with recently starting to learn Ruby as I got to speak with a lot of other Ruby geeks while I was there and see Elliot Kember in action smashing a few crazy little applications out at great speed.
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Times have been hard for the developers of CodeIgniter - EllisLab and they have addressed this in a few ways: A spot on the ExpressionEngine Podcast, a few articles explaining the future of EllisLab and ExpressionEngine and how they plan to take things forward. Sadly, as always us CodeIgniter developers have been left with not much more than a nod and a pat on the head.
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People have always said my Template library for CodeIgniter is powerful but f**king confusing. Well now I have written up some documentation, which anybody who knows me or my work is VERY unusual...
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For the last 7 months since CodeIgniter 2.0 was released on BitBucket the question "when will it be stable?" has been all bouncing around all over the place. The truth is CodeIgniter 2.0 has been stable for months. Somebody at EllisLab could open the terminal and write $ hg tag v2.0; hg push; right now, but what would that actually give us?
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With the awesome Mozilla Drumbeat festival less than a month away, I've been talking to one of the featured participants: Brad Felix, Chief Learning Officer of Flat World Knowledge.
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CodeCanyon have launched their new ExpressionEngine 2 section along with a few of plugins from me. One of these is the long awaited, much anticipated Widgets module!
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