CodeIgniter 2.1.0 is here!

EllisLab has yet to update their website with the new User Guide but you are free to download 2.1.0 to see the changes. Scanning through the change log, I see a lot that I like: Added increment_string() to String Helper … Continue reading

Responsive Web Design

With IE9 gaining wider adoption (over previous versions of IE) it means CSS media queries are finally going main stream. Even though they have been supported by Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and Opera for some time. For the redesign of Women & Teens … Continue reading

Getting Started with Subversion on OS X 10.7

For those not already on the GIT bandwagon, Apache Subversion is a great chose for versioning your software projects. Even better, Lion has Subversion 1.6.16 installed my default. To see for yourself, in terminal: $ svn --version You should see … Continue reading

Client-Side Cacheable Dynamic Images

Task: Allow users to embed their rating on our site, as an image, on their personal site. Goal: Stress our server as little as possible. There are several ways of doing this but the basic process of how this works is: Our … Continue reading

Discovering Server Issues with CloudKick

Since I purchased my first VPS with linode, I’ve been hunting for a solid server monitor. I eventually settled on the free developer account with CloudKick. After tracking the server for a few days I notice it was constantly running … Continue reading