Andy Boyd

CodeIgniter is open source and well documented, I think it looks pretty cool…
“CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications. If you’re a developer who lives in the real world of shared hosting accounts and clients with deadlines, and if you’re tired of ponderously large and thoroughly undocumented frameworks ”

http://codeigniter.com/

My mac seemed to be running a little slow lately… The following article gave some great tips on how to optimize the performance of my mac
http://lowendmac.com/eubanks/07/0312.html

Trying to drive traffic to your site by using the same keywords in all your titles is a mistake… Read the following article to gain a perspective on the correct way to increase traffice using keywords

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-solve-keyword-cannibalization

This is a great week… first UltraEdit v13.00, now this!  Camino 1.0.4 just released.  If you haven’t tried Camino as your web-browser on OS X, you have to try it… I’m hooked!

http://www.caminobrowser.org/releases/1.0.4.php

I thought this was an interesting way of structuring what most of us already do when we implement changes to a website, software, code, etc.

The Deming Cycle is a proposal for handling changes. It includes four steps that repeat in a cyclical pattern:

• PLAN
• establish the objectives and processes necessary to deliver results in accordance with the specifications.
• DO
• implement the processes.
• CHECK
• monitor and evaluate the processes and results against objectives and Specifications and report the outcome.
• ACT
• apply actions to the outcome for necessary improvement. This means reviewing all steps (Plan, Do, Check, Act) and modifying the process to improve it before its next implementation.

Repeat…

The step that is most often skipped, in my opinion, is the “Check” Step. After we implement the change, we need to Check the results. How often have you uploaded a file to your web-sever, and thought… “I know it’s going to work, I’m moving on to the next thing…” only to find out later that what should have worked, didn’t…

If you want to read more about this, take a look at http://www.kaizenmanifesto.org/

UltraEdit v13.00 was just released today (3/6/07). The new features are:

• Integrated scripting support
• Integrated browser support to show active HTML file
• Spell check while typing
• MSI Installer support
• Search and Replace enhancements:
  • Search in Favorite files
  • Search and Replace will step through all open files
  • Search in Files for any files NOT containing search string
  • User customizable format of Search in Files result
• Explorer view uses system-registered Icons for file types
• Cursor word-right or word-left to optionally stop at an underscore
• Syntax highlighting support of verbatim string literals
• Nested comments for languages
• Script List view for scripts
• Express Install for typical installations
• Prompt before UltraEdit is set as View Source Editor during install
• Option to auto-save modified documents when application loses focus
• More…

The integrated scripting support is fantastic! It combines JavaScript and UltraEdit allowing you to create some very powerful scripts.

If you want to try out the scripting, I suggest you read the Power Tip here:

http://www.ultraedit.com/index.php?name=Content&pid=216

Go to www.ultraedit.com to learn more