Sorting the garden out

My dad came over today to help sort our garden out. We wanted to open the end of the garden up to grow some colourful plants and maybe add a few solar lights. The end of the garden was previously segmented into smaller pieces, with a raised patch with a few shrubs and some fenced off stones. ...

5 September, 2010

Foursquare Vs. Gowalla

With recent news about Facebook’s new ‘Places’ feature it looks like location based social networking could become the next big thing over the next couple of years. In case you can’t wait for this to be fully rolled out and you want to give one of the established location based social networks a try, here’s some background info. ...

20 August, 2010

Book Review: CodeIgniter 1.7 Professional Development by Adam Griffiths (Packt Publishing)

CodeIgniter 1.7 Professional Development by Adam Griffiths is a great introduction to CodeIgniter - and the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern in general - for intermediate and advanced PHP developers. I was asked to write a review of this book by Packt Publishing and this is now my third CodeIgniter specific book which I’ve studied. I’ve been working with CodeIgniter on several projects for over two years now so I’ve become quite familiar with the framework, but I’m always interested to see how other people approach problems and use the libraries available. There’re always a few hidden gems which are waiting to be discovered! ...

15 August, 2010

Another CodeIgniter book review on the way

I’ll be posting another CodeIgniter book review for Packt Publishing shortly: ‘CodeIgniter 1.7 Professional Development’ by Adam Griffiths. ...

8 May, 2010

Beautiful time lapse video of Tokyo

I just saw this great time lapse video of Tokyo! I especially like 1:56 when the planes are coming in. Great choice of music too! Nice work! Get up and go from Stefan Werc on Vimeo.

18 April, 2010