Have you seen the footage of Ukip leader Nigel Farage getting hounded out of Edinburgh? I just watched it on YouTube. Unlike most observers, I have taken some time to check out some of Ukip’s policies. For what it’s worth, I think that some of their economic policies appear to be somewhat unfair and poorly […]
Like many of you I’ve been following the Ohio kidnapping story that’s been on the news lately. To me the entire story is unimaginably shocking and – like many of you – one of my initial reactions was “I hope they really nail the guy who is responsible.” For what it’s worth I’ve never really […]
So, North Korea is apparently threatening to nuke the West and today David Cameron has warned that they have the technological capabilities to hit the UK. Part of me wants to be terrified. Part of me wants to go out, buy a big bag of popcorn, switch on the news and join in with everyone […]
roof repairs Here is the code for the perfect Model START <?php if ( ! defined(‘BASEPATH’)) exit(‘No direct script access allowed’); class Mdl_perfectmodel extends CI_Model { function __construct() {parent::__construct();} function get_table() { $table = “tablename”; return $table;} function get($order_by){$table = $this->get_table();$this->db->order_by($order_by);$query=$this->db->get($table);return $query;} function get_with_limit($limit, $offset, $order_by) {$table = $this->get_table();$this->db->limit($limit, $offset);$this->db->order_by($order_by);$query=$this->db->get($table);return $query;} function get_where($id){$table […]
About a month ago I had a terrible coughing fit during the middle of the night and literally lost the ability to breath in. It lasted for a scary minute. Anyway, this interesting new experience has been happening on and off for some time. The upshot is that I have whooping cough. I’ve had it […]
van graphics I recently read an article entitled Why Codeigniter is Dead and it confirmed my fears that the PHP community – particularly the frameworks community – is moving entirely in the wrong direction. If you are a web developer and you use any of the major PHP frameworks then I’m sure you’ll appreciate what I’m […]
by David Connelly When I first got into the web – back in the mid 90s – website design was like a brave new art form. It was exciting, it was modern and to me it was kind of mysterious. Even though I was never much of a designer, I was eager to be […]
