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Welcome to my humble writing corner. I like big letters. Below are the latest five posts.

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Learning Google Checkout and the Notification API

Tuesday, 02 February 2010

This is geared to the seasoned developer, and it provides only the basics for starting a complex Google Checkout integration. So, let's begin: Reading material Integration overview Checkout API New order notifications The setup It has to be done in the sandbox, when everything goes fine, you just switch to... ... Read more

Dynamically adding jQuery tabs: round 2

Tuesday, 11 August 2009

In my previous related post, I did not provide working code. I thought I was. I also was giving the example using jQuery DOM, therefore adding an unneeded dependency, which is never good. With this post, I'm trying to fix that. Here's a real quick demo where you can see... ... Read more

FormIgniter, Easy form generator for the CodeIgniter framework

Thursday, 09 July 2009

A few days ago, I was pointed to a project that generates CodeIgniter forms in an easy to use way, and a great looking interface: FormIgniter. Basically, it is a form that creates forms :). As I am a form generation freak, I immediatly checked it out. If you are... ... Read more

A base controller for CodeIgniter

Thursday, 25 June 2009

After creating several small to medium CodeIgniter projects, I have adopted the habit of creating a base controller with the following methods: <?php class MY_Controller extends Controller { private $view = array(); private $view_path = ''; public function __construct() { parent::__construct(); $this->init(); } /** * Override this method in child... ... Read more

A Job Feed Aggregator for Location Independent Developers

Tuesday, 23 June 2009

This is just me scratching an itch. It attempts to make filtering jobs/gigs a lot faster. An interesting note: while I'm currently not interested in jobs that require working on-site, one could learn about the market trends by looking at them. By market trends I mean: new technologies, new languages,... ... Read more