A Better Find for TextMate
I just found the rather excellent Ack in Project TM bundle. I like the output format better, and it searches unbelievably fast compared to the standard TM “Find in Project”. Happy day!
It Makes My Day
Errant has written a very nice comparison of CI and Kohana, touching on almost every feature that I think makes Kohana great. It’s good to see an honest and down to earth review from an outsiders point of view.
Candidate for Best Web Host
Today I discovered WebFaction by way of the CodeIgniter IRC chat. They came highly recommended, and their main selling point is that they offer 1-click installs of Rails, Django, Trac, SVN, and PHP, among many others.
Oh, and I almost forgot to mention: they are about the same price as DreamHost. I’m thinking about moving my personal domain over there.
Why Dro Doesn’t Post Much
Ok, so it’s time to explain why I’m so bad at posting. No, it’s not sex, drugs, or rock’n'roll. It’s Kohana, the PHP5 framework that I ended up being the lead developer of.
Around May of 2007, some of the active members of the CodeIgniter community decided to fork CI. There were several reasons for this fork. The main issues were speed of development and how the community was being treated ignored.
We forked, and after a month or so of work, had fixed all of outstanding bugs that CI had, and asked EllisLabs (the creators of CI) to think about making our changes official. They promptly attacked us for trying to help, and more or less told us to GTFO.
Now, many months later, our fork has grown and matured. Kohana is now a very fast PHP5 MVC framework that has a lot of promise. Our first official release is out, and we are had at work on the next release. And it takes a lot of my time.
Mootools: Okay, I’m Impressed
I just came across the Mootools’ demo of Fx.Morph. Impressive.
This effect somehow manages to animate the change between two completely different CSS styles, including halting the effect. Sorry jQuery, you lose this round.
jQuery Plugin: .selection()
Wrote a new plugin today. This one will get the current selection of any input, and also (optionally) change the input. Read more
jQuery showeach() plugin
I needed a recursive way to show each item in set, after the previous item had been shown. I came up with this: Read more
Opacity Plugin for jQuery
About 5 minutes ago, I was in need of a .opacity function for jQuery, so I whipped this up:
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Live Search
Live search is now implemented, with minimal pain and suffering to small animals. Thanks jQuery. Here’s the code in question. (I was going to have it in the post, but WP fucked it up.)