Michael Anthony Heap

This assumes you have moved both the application and system libraries into their own folders outside the webroot. (See the user guide) You’ll want to start off by grabbing a copy of the library from github. You need to put the file in ./application/libraries/ and add it to the autoload file located at (see the…

Back in August, I started to play around with Codeigniter at work, and it quickly became my framework of choice. I quickly realised that there were some features that I considered essential missing from Codeigniter. Fortunately, there’s an easy way to extend the core, and so my Codeigniter Theme Library was born. There were a…

HTML5 is the newest incarnation of HTML, the markup language of the web. With it, comes the introduction of a few new tags such as <video>, <audio> and perhaps most interestingly, <canvas>. I’m a relative newcomer to Canvas, but I’m in intrigued to see just how quickly (if at all) it will replace Flash as…

I can’t think of any practical applications apart from the one given over at Web Developer Plus – but this is too cool not to share. The basic example was that if you’re running a movie review blog, categories for genre and tags for actors/actresses may work, it would be nicer to have a taxonomy…