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So, this was a worthwhile venture, building a little website in CodeIginter. I looked at all the leading frameworks before setting out on this venture, now it's time to try another. Don't get me wrong, CodeIgniter has a lot going for it, and I barely scratched the surface, but being the lazy bastard I am I couldn't help be attracted to a framework that writes code for me!

Once upon a time, memoires were reserved for people who had a substantial experience and body of work. Now 16 year olds can write 'memoires' ? What I want to know is how are the kids bastardizing the english language writing to their friends about Justin Bieber's memoires, just how will they spell 'memoire' texting ?Let's see... mwr... memwr... omghe'ssofreakinhot!!!... memohwhatthefuckidontevenknowwhatamemoireis... memwar...

Hey, I bought this Canon sx20is, pretty cool, not quite dslr quality, but still pretty cool. Here's a couple of pics that show the zoom range, which is pretty amazing. images have been downsampled fom the ridiculuosly high resolutions avaliable on the Canon sx20is, and only miminally touched up in Photoshop (I love shadow/highlight)

So Happy Canada Day, eh? We all woke up to gas at 8 cents a litre more, and smokes cost me an extra 75 cents, and here's another story about my Canada Day.

That's too bad. Peanuts are awesome. Yum.

I yelled at my imac tonight, I called it a 'goddam mother fuckin piece of fucking cocksucking shit'. You see, I work with an SMB server, and I've been very patiently wiating for Apple to fix whatever it was that they screwed up with SMB in Snow Leopard. I work in prepress, were thing are supposed to happen fast, but I'm reallllly tired of this nonsense of the Finder hanging when doing something simple, like opening a folder, which happens 20 or 30 times  a day.

Haven't said alot here about my little codeigniter site lately, but have been working on other little projects using codeigniter.

Actually, Loginfo isn't specific to CodeIgniter, but I wrote the Loginfo class to gather log information for this site. Like most of my PHP stuff, Loginfo is an aggregation of stuff found here and there, so isn't terribly original.

So i see that I'm 20 days into this little project, CodeIgniter is certainly growing on me as i add some little thing every day. I've added an RSS feed, and developed a little Logging, IP Geolocation and Browser Detection Class, too.

So I chip away at this little website in between trying to earn a living. What have I learned in the past few days?

So, I've been working mostly on backend stuff not visible to the general public, and somewhere along the way I deleted day 6. Hope I didn't do anything important that day.

I don't know what day it is anymore. Another day spending way too much time working on this site. Too bad I don't get paid by the hour for this, I'd do really well. Everything takes longer than planned, but some things go ok...

I've been slowly plodding away at this, my focus has been the backend with the limited time i've had during the week. While I got tinymce running in about 2 minutes, and is great for new articles, a bigger challenge was ahead when i wanted to use it to edit articles. Like most things, I thought it would be easy:

'K, so what have I been doing? I get lots of great ideas where I think 'This will just take a few minutes...', so down the rabbit hole go I. A few hours later maybe it's working. have I learned anything?, Lets see...

Installed TinyMCE wysiwyg editor. Very cool, so simple, and it just works. Look, i can make things bold, and italic, and even underline  without typing a single angle bracket! I'm only using it on my little backend for writing articles right now.

Luckily a gloomy and rainy Saturday, good weather for spending way too much time in front of a computer. This is finally a dynamic CodeIgniter website.

I still don't have a real codeigniter site. I've done the basics - the directory structure is in place, I have some HTML layouts to work with as the 'skeleton' of my views, but if you are viewing this site on Mar 12 in the early morning, you're looking at dumb old HTML. So far 've mostly been working locally in Dreamweaver, but for php stuff, I like Netbeans, so I have take a few minutes to re-organize my local development environment and get synched with my live webserver.

Okay, so I've spent another hour or two tweaking some HTML layouts. I have the index.html looking way I want, and an 'article' (I preferefer the term 'article' over 'post') page looking the way I want with all the essential elements. Some might think differently, but as a newb at MVC, I find it important to be very clear on the HTML structure of my pages so that when it comes to doing the CodeIgniter Views (the V in MVC), I can simply view source of my pages, copy the bits I need, and incorporate them into the view files. These HTML pages won't be part of the final site, but I keep them for reference as I move along.

So, the plan is to develop a site with Codeigniter. I've been looking at the various PHP frameworks over the last few weeks, lured by the promise of 'rapid application development'. They don't tell you how long it will take to get your head around learning the framework.