WebLeft | Hugh Fletcher

Never…Say Never

2007-10-23T03:36:00Z

I hate to be cliche, but that darn word will come back to bite you in the rear every time. I’ll never text message, never another freakin’ cat, never run out of gas, never get an ipod, never forget to put deodorant on...again. I’ve said at one time I’ll never get married, and then later that I’ll never get divorced. I repeat every weekend that I’ll never get that drunk again, and almost daily say I won’t never again eat that much. Where am I going with all this? I also said years ago that I would never do a blog either.

Ehmm, welcome to my blog…

An Excercise In Physically Locating Websites

2008-02-19T01:50:00Z

Last weekend I noticed that some local websites had been hacked. I had a good chuckle and moved on. Last Monday one of those hacked websites was reported on in the local paper and without going into the details, you can read the article and comments yourself, I thought it would be fun to quickly explain how to locate a web site’s physical location.

Two Helpful Tools For Browser Testing

2008-01-02T22:12:00Z

I just touched up the site recently, including an overhaul of the xhtml and css to make it work in all browsers. I hadn’t done this in a while, so during my quest I found Browsershots and MultipleIEs. These two won’t necessarily aid with the coding, but they’ll help immensely during the testing.

About

2007-12-21T20:05:00Z

This is the ’About‘ section of the website that I will add, along with some other links, to the menu bar next week. I put it in a post format so users can make comments and can keep updated as I change it over time.

PHP 5.2.5 Released

2007-11-09T20:51:00Z

Php has released 5.2.5. Sixty bug fixes, many which are security related. So it’s encouraged to do the upgrade. Read more about it at php.net.

Linking External Style Sheets In CodeIgniter

2007-11-05T01:26:00Z

Having been working with CodeIgniter for about two years now, I have always struggled with how to structure my themes. This past week I came up with what seems to be such an obvious solution for external css handling in CodeIgniter, that I was surprised I haven’t read about it elsewhere. Perhaps it’s so obvious that most felt it need not to be mentioned, however I would have loved to come across something like this long ago.

First Looks At Expression Engine

2007-10-29T15:15:00Z

To make a long story short, I caught this article ’Are you a CodeIgniter using Wordpress?‘ over at Derek Allard’s website and was finally inspired to go dig deeper at Expression Engine. Despite never having used Wordpress, what I found out in the end was that if you need a blog system for a personal site, complete with all the blogging extras, and your a CodeIgniter junkie who wants to stay in the family, Expression Engine is the way to go. As I learned later, it can do way more than just blogs too.