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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! ...

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

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.

Well, it’s now April and many T-Mobile G2 Touch owners are waiting for the Android 2.1 update for their handsets, although all is still quiet on the news front. The last update from T-Mobile I saw was back in February when T-Mobile announced that they will be releasing “a firmware upgrade in April for the T-Mobile G2 Touch”. We’re all hoping that this will indeed be the Android 2.1 Eclair update we’ve been waiting for. There are some rumours out there as to the exact date and content of this release, but none of these are confirmed, so all we can do is play the waiting game for now. ...

I’ve decided to give the web service, Mollom, a try since my CAPTCHA, which I kept tweaking to the point where I nearly couldn’t read it, was letting me down. The problem with CAPTCHA is it logs how many form submissions it blocks, which is great, but this doesn’t necessarily mean SPAM submissions; it could be frustrated people not being able to post a comment on your blog. Mollom works by analysing the form submission for SPAM patterns, then determining whether it is suitable or not. It’s quite strange to see my forms without a CAPTCHA underneath, but I should know soon enough how well the service works as I have many form submissions blocked by CAPTCHA each day. ...