Comments on: Isara + CodeIgniter = ?

By: dinero

dinero — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:28:53 +0000

Although I haven’t used it yet, there’s a new fork of CI called CI Reactor, which is a community-driven version of the framework

By: Christian Delahousse

Christian Delahousse — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 12:00:56 +0000

Hey,
What you’re doing over here sounds wonderful. I’m in Prechuap Khiri Khan, a bit south of Bangkok. I’m happy to hear you’ve been able to put your web dev skills to work. I’m trying to find a similar opportunity. Nothing would be better than halting my travels for a month to help a community build a helpful app. Stopping what I love to do what I love.

Best of luck with the rest of your sejour. Before you leave, you should REALLY consider coming down to Prechuap. It’s beyond beautiful with only a limited amount of Falangs (southen thai accent).

By: Karthik

Karthik — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 03:28:00 +0000

Gosh..I’m doing something similar for my college 🙂
Maybe you could help me in someway

By: Nic Rosental

Nic Rosental — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 17:10:43 +0000

James, first of all let me say that the work you are doing is inspiring, and as a fellow CI dev it makes me very happy to see my framework of choice be used for a good cause.
It’s funny how immediately after announcing you will be using a framework, everyone jumps to recommend you try a different one. Frameworks are tools, and you should always use the one that you best suits you, not the other way around. Although I haven’t used it yet, there’s a new fork of CI called CI Reactor, which is a community-driven version of the framework. You can read about it here http://codeigniter.com/news/codeigniter_in_2011_reactor_core_uservoice/
Unlike other forks it has the backing of Ellis Lab and will stay true to the CI we all know and love.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 21:42:33 +0000

While not a (serious) developer myself, my biz partner was a big fan of C.I. (and used it for 8 – 12months in a busy web dev shop – on 8+ projects) only to switch to Cake and never look back. He could have an application with full crud functionallity ready to demo to a client in 8-12 hours. After the switch, I heard nothing but good things about Cake. We also brought in an experienced deveopler to help him and the new dev loved it (he had prior experience with Kohana and a few other frameworks). I think it’s worth a shot.

By: Edwin

Edwin — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 23:43:11 +0000

great stuff, congratulations, that place sounds like my country. Im glad there are people like you around the world, if u need any help i can help for free. 😉 and it would be great for my country too.

By: shin

shin — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 07:47:20 +0000

For students' e-learning, you may like Moodle. A free open source PHP/MySQL tools and many schools are using it. It does not have Admin tools, but teachers can share their power points and other resources with their students.

By: Drew

Drew — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:30:36 +0000

You’ve written a lot of best in class things related to JavaScript. Have you considered putting https://j11y.io/jquery/ up on GitHub? I can’t be the only one that missed it while your site was down. If not, do you mind me making a copy and putting it at http://drewwells.net/jquery/ ? It’s a very useful tool.

By: Max

Max — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 21:43:25 +0000

Hey James,

Followed Ur Blog for 2 years already and in the beginning because Web dev stuff. But thats not Why i kept following. Its because of your Personal style that tells more about how u develop and what expiriences u make in terms of this Industry, but also in terms of life in gerneral. I like what u do in Taiwan. Keep that interest up!

Ok topic now: i am interested in to how make up such a db concept. How do u process it exactly, whats the u tackle such a task and what tools do u use?

By: Valentino

Valentino — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 21:30:04 +0000

Always happy to read some of your new adventures! : ) If you liked CodeIgniter, try Kohana. It’s like CI, but better. http://kohanaframework.org/
You may even give a look at Yii: http://www.yiiframework.com/

Here you can find a nice comparison between these three: http://www.beyondcoding.com/2009/03/02/choosing-a-php-framework-round-2-yii-vs-kohana-vs-codeigniter/

If I were you, I’ll probably use Symfony with Doctrine as ORM, but if you haven’t used it before it may be a little overkill…

But.. why don’t you try a combination like node.js + Express + MongoDB? Server-side javascript may suite better your skills… Here you can find a nice tutorial if you’re interested: http://dailyjs.com/2010/11/01/node-tutorial/

Cheers and happy new year.