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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

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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

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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

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Tweetbars: surprisingly well recieved!

Well I popped my new little web service into news.YC yesterday night to see what people thought of it – and what I could do before spreading it around a bit. And someone there twittered it causing a serious influx … Continue reading

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Xtags demo!

A quick Xtags demo has been released! The current (very buggy) version supports Markdown, BBcode, Geshi and smileys parsing. The smileys look pretty cool! Geshi was very hard to integrate – and I am still not happy with it. Once … Continue reading

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Xtags: A preview

A quick note before bed! I’ve been working on my Xpress module for Kohana (Xsetting,Xtheme,Xgrid,Xtags,Xtools and more); tonight I put together Xtags, which is a tag parsing system. The intention is to support all sorts of text formatting: from full … Continue reading

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Long live PHP (and all that jazz)

I was reading some of the latest stuff on Sam Clarks blog the other day and this post stuck out at me. He was talking (in the latter part of the posting) about a Rails vs. PHP comparison he saw … Continue reading

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Xsettings: Database settings manager for Kohana

I started work today on Xsettings for Kohana PHP framework. I like the Kohana config method (in terms of file layout) but I always like to have the option to store settings in a database as well. My reasoning behind … Continue reading

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Framework Comparision (PHP): CI vs K2

6 months ago I had no idea what a PHP framework was, I had been programming in PHP for over 3 years but had not yet come across the idea of MVC. I was first introduced (by a friend) to … Continue reading

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CI Demo: Extending a simple auth system

I’ve been working from home today, which was something of a novelty! No one was in the office so I’ve been working on a website design at home (sort of a secondary project there). For most of the websites (including … Continue reading

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