Grafik Kaos

CodeIgniter Bundle for DW in the works

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:47:12 -0500

I am in the process of creating a small CodeIgniter bundle for use in Dreamweaver. It has been a while since I released any extensions so bare with me if it takes a while for me to have this released.

Bad Week and Apologies

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:40:41 -0500

This has got to be one of the worst weeks of my life. So much unending crap I have had to deal with. First my power supply started to play up. Some of the connectors decided to start failing. Essentially not enough power was going to my hard drive and all I got heard was the drive constantly winding up and down.

Playing with Hooks in CodeIgniter

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:25:56 -0500

Since starting with CodeIgniter, I had been looking for a way to put any websites I created in maintenance mode. I had considered a couple of options. The first being to replace main index.php file with another that contained the maintenance info.

Now On Twitter

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:51:40 -0500

Grafik Kaos is now on Twitter.... Yippeeee! Ermmm... now that I am signed up, what do I do? With everyone signing up to a Twitter account and documenting (or shall I say tweeting) everything that they basically do, I am left wondering if I should be doing the same.

A few things I am working on

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:21:06 -0500

The more I work with CodeIgniter, the more I am getting into it. I have actually started enjoying handcoding everything again instead of taking the usual point and click approach I have used with Dreamweaver for quite few years. There are a few things I missed not having though. I so totally loved the authentication system in ADDT. So much so that I am actually trying to write something similar for CodeIgniter.

Getting Started with CodeIgniter

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:21:31 -0500

Not too long ago, I started working with CodeIgniter, a framework created by the same people that brought us Expression Engine. Part of the reason as to chose this framework was due to the fact that it was lightweight and was built for performance. Something that I felt ADDT was lacking in sometimes.

How I hate

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:47:25 -0500

Perhaps hate is too much of a strong word, but I don't always like when you are trying to write some code and you probably get stuck on a issue you are unable to resolve right there and then, and some smart ass on a forum just turns round and tells you: "Why are you re-inventing the wheel? Just use this or use that."

Problematic Firefox

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:11:33 -0500

Mozilla, you are slipping... I mean Firefox 3.5 has been nothing more that a complete disaster. Slow loading of pages, browser hangs up, Javascripts not working and the list goes on... Websites that I can get to open normally with other browsers seem to just not work with Firefox 3.5. Even after upgrading from 3.5 to 3.5.2, things seem to have become even worse. I have tried everything I could think of. Started Firefox in Safe Mode, disabled extensions and nothing works properly. I have reverted back to 3.0.13 and at least things are working again.

Mozilla, step your game up.. This is just not good enough!

Grafik Kaos now Ignited

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:01:32 -0500

A few weeks ago, I hinted at Grafik Kaos being redesigned. Well here it is! The only difference now is that it is not powered by ADDT (Adobe Dreamweaver Developer Toolbox) but by CodeIgniter.

I have to say, this is definitely the easiest PHP framework to pick up. It only took me about a couple of weeks to get my head round the working of CodeIgniter, understanding its structure and the MVC (Model-View-Controller) pattern was also the easiest to pick up.

New Version Of Aptana released

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:13:35 -0500

If you are looking for an alternative to using Dreamweaver especially with working with Javascript libraries, you may want consider Aptana Studio. A new version has been released and it fixes a number of issues.

If like me, most of you are using the 64-bit flavours of Windows, you may have noticed that Aptana was sometimes pretty slow in doing things and did have some annoying problems.