- My Name is Tom, or Errant. I write about geeky things, politics, and life in general and politic. My current day job is in computer security but I have been known to program in my spare time.
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Category Archives: code
WordPress Plugin: WP-Notifo
Notifo is a cool new service that lets websites send push notifications to your phone (currently iPhone only). They have a cool API which allows you to register an application and start pushing notifications to people who request it. They’ve … Continue reading
Announcing Modular
Modular is my new Kohana module designed to help you manage your other modules! Version 1.0 allows you to track installed and loaded modules and load/unload them with a single click. The list of loaded modules is stored in the … Continue reading
Using Version Control as a “Save” package
This week I was without internet but with netbook; which left me somewhat free to code whatever took my fancy. So, armed with the latest mercurial release and as much info on the API available (read: very little) I set … Continue reading
Kohana Minify Update 1.5 Beta
Just a short note to mention a new beta release of v1.5 of the Kohana Minify module. This new release has the following mix of changes: BUGFIX: Support for dots in file names (e.g. jquery-1.4.2.js) FEATURE: Supports groups of files … Continue reading
KTwitter: Kohana, Twitter, Oauth
This is just a small announcement of the first release of KTwitter; a Twitter library for Kohana. I know there is an excellent Twitter library already but it makes use of the old username/password method – which Twitter now discourages. … Continue reading
Mercury Baby!
Im a mercurial convert; there are 2 reasons for this. The first one is that I was experimenting with new SCM systems after falling out of love with SVN. It’s just old and I needed a refresh. So I went … Continue reading
New Kohana Module: Minify
Introducting Minify. It’s just a simple wrapper around jsmin and cssmin to turn it into a Kohana Library. The library handles the minification, setting the correct headers and Gzipping the output for smaller files (based on the rules set out … Continue reading
Handling multiple Kohana Installs P1
I use Kohana exclusively for pretty much all of my websites (the ones I dont are simply static pages). Since I posted a critique of the PHP framework last year I’ve got more and more addicted to it. Simply for … Continue reading
RTFM
My lesson for today – dont spend 20 minds telling your PC that it is wrong and you are right. RTFM. http://docs.kohanaphp.com/helpers/url#site does not do the same thing as http://docs.kohanaphp.com/helpers/html#anchor This fact has caused me a lot of frustration. Andnow … Continue reading