Monthly Archives: February 2011
FuelPHP for CodeIgniter Developers
I started using CodeIgniter in January 2008, and it was a huge milestone in my development education. It showed me new ways to build, and I’d never be making the things I am today if it wasn’t for CI. I still love it and I still use it – it is getting better every day via Reactor, and it has a bright future.
That being said, PHP has changed a lot since CodeIgniter’s core was developed. A few months ago, some stuff happened and Dan Horrigan decided to create FuelPHP – a framework loosely in the tradition of CodeIgniter, but built to take advantage of the bells and whistles of PHP 5.3+.
I decided to really delve into FuelPHP over the weekend and found a lot of things that I really love and a lot of things that were really different in both syntax and method to what was done with CodeIgniter. So, coming from a tried and true CI guy, here are some observations of what to look out for when using FuelPHP.
Note: This isn’t meant to win people over to FuelPHP or espouse the virtues of switching, but it is meant as an overview of some major changes in thinking/structure for CI developers looking to use FuelPHP.
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My First Music Video – Sam Friend, “Part of the Show”
My brother, Derek, is crew with people in the Miami music scene since he himself is a musician (and in Miami). One of the people Derek plays/records/travels with a lot is Sam Friend, a singer/songwriter who has an EP and an album under his belt which have some really fantastic songs.
After I did some live videos for Derek, Sam and I got to talking and I pitched the idea of doing a music video for my favorite song of his, “Part of the Show”. Several months later, the video is done and available to check out here.
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