Linux is ready for the desktop, both personal and enterprise – as long as you don’t have too many special requirements. If you start with the premise that Linux is not ready, you are overlooking the fact that most Linux Distros are more than capable of providing basic computing needs, such as email, web browsing etc. If you start with the premise that it is ready universally for the desktop, you’ll soon have the gamers, artists and designers telling you it isn’t due to lack of support for a whole range of software and hardware. Like many things in the computer world then, it comes down to an analysis of requirement.
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As a relative newcomer to the world of agile software development, I thought I would share some of the things that I have discovered while switching to the agile philosophy. So where do I start? I thought it might be useful to look at some of the main points in the Agile Manifesto and see what they have meant to me. In this post I’ll begin with responding to change.
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There are several things we need to do now. First, we will create a simple login mechanism using CodeIgniter sessions, then we will begin putting together an administration area to allow for the easy adding and editing of posts.
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In this series we are going to build a blog application with CodeIginiter. If you have been following along, you should have a basic, but nevertheless, working user interface for the application. this time we are going to set up the database, and display a summary of the latest posts on the home page.
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Last time I gave you some basic notes on how to get set up. This time, we will set up a template for the views within our application. I will use the excellent CodeIgniter template library found here, and a very simple CSS layout. You can of course, choose your own “skin” for the application.
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In this series of posts I am going to show you how to create a simple Blog application using the CodeIgniter MVC PHP framework. I know that there are probably 100′s of tutorials like this already, but my reason for writing this series is two-fold: I am getting old and tend to forget useful coding techniques unless I write them down(!) and I hope it will demonstrate how efficient CodeIgniter is, at providing the foundations for a web application to be built quickly.
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