Michael Anthony Heap

While looking through some old starred items in Google Reader, I noticed a snippet of jQuery that you could use to log the objects returned by jquery selectors and inspect them in the console. While it was very useful, there was a lot of room for expansion. After looking at the Console API for Firebug…

I stumbled across http://eloquentjavascript.net/ and decided to have a flick through. Knew most of it, but there are two very useful constructs I didn’t know about: labels and with(). Labels Labels look a bit like a goto statement, but are infinitely more useful. There’s been a few times that I’ve needed to break out of…

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…