CodeIgniter quick reference cheat sheet

August 10th, 2009 - Backend, Cheat Sheets - No Comments

CodeIgniter is my favorite PHP framework. It’s not only simple to understand and use but it also provides excellent documentation and an amazing community. I’ve built a couple of applications and whenever i needed something the answer was either in the doc files or in the community forums. Earlier today i found this CodeIgniter Cheat Sheet which is actually a summary of the libraries and helpers provided. Handy don’t you think?

Dynamically Create Menu With PHP DOM

July 20th, 2009 - Backend, PHP Tools - No Comments

“Programatically creating menus using php is a task many programmers will need to do over and over again in developing applications and web sites. Most PHP coders will have their own menu generation class that will take an array or an item and add it to a HTML un-ordered list or other tag and the styling is handled with CSS. This has proven to be a worthy solution to menu creation, however, PHP already has all the tools and classes built in to create a menu using DOM. It is both powerful and extensible and further eliminates for yet another class in your tree.”

ShopperPress – A shopping cart theme for wordpress

July 10th, 2009 - Backend, Wordpress - 6 Comments

ShopperPress is a fully featured shopping cart plugin for wordpress, suitable for selling any types of products, services, and digital downloads online.

Key features

• Utilises WordPress pages, or posts, to create products
• Custom Advertising Spaces (Google Adsence and normall banners)
• Products can have multiple options (weight / sizes / brands etc)
• Various methods available for listing products
• Full Google Adsence Integration for product clicks and selections

Anemone: An easy-to-use Ruby web spider framework

July 6th, 2009 - Backend, Ruby on Rails - 1 Comments

“Anemone is a Ruby library that makes it quick and painless to write programs that spider a website. It provides a simple DSL for performing actions on every page of a site, skipping certain URLs, and calculating the shortest path to a given page on a site.

The multi-threaded design makes Anemone fast. The API makes it simple. And the expressiveness of Ruby makes it powerful.”

Information about installing and using the framework can be found at http://anemone.rubyforge.org/

WordPress 2.8 for developers

June 20th, 2009 - Backend, Wordpress - No Comments

If you are a wordpress fan then you already know that version 2.8 is out and it comes with some really cool features. Here’s a small list of tutorials mainly for wordpress developers.

WordPress 2.8 Beta Hands On Review

Creating Widgets in WordPress 2.8 with the Widget API

Custom taxonomies in WordPress 2.8

Optimizing script loading

Authentication in WordPress 2.8

WordPress 2.8 and the body_class() Function

Loading JavaScript In Footer In WordPress 2.8