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16 July 2011 ~ Comments Off

Models in Skoot

Models are the “M” in “MVC”, and play a key roll in keeping your separation.What I will be covering here can be taken to most PHP frameworks with a little tweak. Below I will cover how to use the Models in the Skoot PHP framework. First a little about Skoot: This small but powerful PHP [...]

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19 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

OpenStack

Today is a big day for Rackspace Hosting. They announced a new project that Rackspace believes will change the way the cloud is developed and it’s called OpenStack – an open source cloud platform designed to foster the emergence of technology standards and cloud interoperability.

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13 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Cluster Compute Instances for EC2

Amazon is excited to announce the immediate availability of Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2, a new instance type specifically designed for high-performance computing (HPC) applications and other demanding network-bound applications. Customers with complex computational workloads such as tightly coupled parallel processes, or with applications sensitive to network performance, can now achieve the same high [...]

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22 June 2010 ~ Comments Off

Nice Dog Framework

I just came across this mico php framework a few nights ago. When i say “micro” i mean micro, this framework is one file!

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14 June 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Codeigniter Path Helper

he Path Helper file contains functions that permits you to work with file paths on the server.

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08 June 2010 ~ Comments Off

Amazon CloudFront Adds HTTPS

Amazon is excited to let you know about three separate changes to Amazon CloudFront, the easy-to-use AWS content delivery network.

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07 June 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Listing files in a directory Codeigniter

The Directory Helper file contains functions that assist in working with directories. First if you plan on using this often you may want to place this in your autoload under the config folder. Below is how you would load it in the controller itself. $this->load->helper(’directory’); Now you have access to the directory_map function, this function [...]

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03 June 2010 ~ 2 Comments

Amazon RDS MySQL

If you are currently running a MySQL deployment on Amazon EC2 or in another computing environment, you may be interested to learn about some of the recent releases for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS).

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21 April 2010 ~ Comments Off

CodeIgniter 2.0 Baking

EllisLab today announces changes to our internal development processes, including dropping Subversion in favor of Mercurial and adopting Assembla as our agile software development management tool. Along with these changes, CodeIgniter 2.0 pre-release code is in development, and is now hosted at the Mercurial-focused social coding site BitBucket.

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07 October 2008 ~ Comments Off

Mail Goggles from Google!

No More drunk emails! When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you’re really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check than by making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you’re in the right state of mind? Google [...]

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06 October 2008 ~ Comments Off

Platforms Windows to Mac

I have been working on Mac’s for a long time but before that i used a PC for everything. I have recently been working on a PC for .NET development and thought i would not enjoy myself at all. I kept my mind open and tried to stay neutral. After working on the PC for [...]

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