Garrett St. John

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    Managing CodeIgniter Packages with Git Submodules

    Link: http://philsturgeon.co.uk/blog/2011/09/managing-codeigniter-packages-with-git-submodules Great post on how to include Git projects within other Git projects as submodules. I’ve been ...

    read Comments Off on Managing CodeIgniter Packages with Git Submodules September 26, 2011
  • Software Development

    CodeIgniter US State Helper

    I’m working on a project today and building a credit card checkout form for what seems like the 1,000th time. It occurred to me that a US State Helper would save me from having to 1)  look ...

    read Comments Off on CodeIgniter US State Helper August 11, 2011
  • Software Development

    A Great Method for Modeling Git Branches

    Link: A successful Git branching model This is probably one of the best tutorials I’ve seen on how to run a successful Git repository. Bravo!

    read Comments Off on A Great Method for Modeling Git Branches February 16, 2011
  • Software Development

    Extracting Attachments From Email With PHP

    Yesterday I wrote about how to read email with PHP, but I want to dig a bit deeper and discuss another part of the My Slow Low project that needed tackling: Extracting attachments from emails ...

    read Comments Off on Extracting Attachments From Email With PHP February 8, 2011
  • Software Development

    Reading Email with PHP

    PHP already has a nice IMAP extension for working with email. The extension needs to be installed and enabled before moving forward. The core functionality is all there, but the specifics on how ...

    read Comments Off on Reading Email with PHP February 7, 2011
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    Advanced Regular Expressions

    Link: Advanced Regular Expression Tips and Techniques For those of you that don’t geek out about Regular Expressions like I do, here’s a nice article from Nettuts on advanced Regex ...

    read Comments Off on Advanced Regular Expressions February 1, 2011
  • Software Development

    Adding an Empty Directory to a Git repository

    Link: How to add empty directory to Git repo using .gitignore I was in the process of checking in a CodeIgniter project today when I realized that the ‘cache’ and ‘logs’ ...

    read Comments Off on Adding an Empty Directory to a Git repository January 28, 2011
  • Software Development

    Installing Google’s mod_pagespeed on a MediaTemple (dv)

    The announcement of mod_pagespeed by Google couldn’t have been more perfectly timed. I’ve been working on a page load speed optimization project this week and this fits the bill perfectly. The ...

    read Comments Off on Installing Google’s mod_pagespeed on a MediaTemple (dv) November 3, 2010
  • Tips, Tricks, and Hacks

    Gas Mask – Simple Hosts File Manager

    Link: Gas Mask – Simple Hosts File Manager In doing a considerable amount of local web development, I often come across the need to modify (or even completely swap out) the hosts file on ...

    read Comments Off on Gas Mask – Simple Hosts File Manager October 8, 2010
  • Software Development

    CodeIgniter Migrations

    Link: CodeIgniter Migrations esbueno: An open source utility for Codeigniter inspired by Ruby on Rails. The one thing Ruby on Rails has that Codeigniter does not have built in is database ...

    read Comments Off on CodeIgniter Migrations October 7, 2010
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