February 2012
1 post
Codeigniter on_duplicate_update db function
So your using MYSQL for your new codeigniter app and you get to a point in the app where you need to do this.
So as show above, you check if a record exists, if it does you update, if not you insert. This is fast and easy correct? But what if you doing thousand of records and you need some help in performance. Well in Mysqli you have the ability to insert on duplicate all in one query.
Ok thats...
January 2012
10 posts
A CMS? A custom CMS? I just need a website.
So what is a CMS? CMS stands for content management system. When thinking about creating a website, choosing a CMS is very important. Not everyone is a software engineer and knows how to code up websites. There are a lot of tools on the internet which engineers have built to allow users to write information, this information is then turned into “website code” and then a website is...
Sublime Text 2 and Nodejs
Just found an amazing plugin for nodejs for my favorite editor sublime text 2, make sure you guys all check it out, come with a lots of autocomplete options, hopefully they upkeep it through all the new node js versions.
https://github.com/tanepiper/SublimeText-Nodejs
Node.js and ejs
So I been working with node.js for about 3 months or so now on a new project and I started out use swig.js as my templating language.
Swigs syntax will be very familiar to you all if your used to using twig for php and especially python Django’s templating language where pretty much everyone got their ideas from.
{% extends "base_generic.html" %}{% block title %}{{ section.title }}{%...
AuthorsAlley.com
Super excited to reveal that my Authors Alley project is now in beta! Show your support and sign up today for the free account. Please note im still working on the help docs and the advanced billing areas. Thanks for the support!
www.authorsalley.com
Node Package.json
Node handles dependencies pretty cool, within your node application go ahead and add a file called packages.json
Once this file is created go ahead and paste this sample inside
{
“name”: “Sample Project”,
“version” : “1.0.0”,
“description”: “Need Dependancies”,
“author”: “Your Name”,
...
Domain Names
So the worst thing about a new project is picking what to call it. Well even that is easy compared to the time its going to take to get a domain name that you can actually register ! So make sure you all do that in reverse, find a good domain name, register it and then name you project.
My domain name hunts, if i get lucky usually take about a week or so, some have gotten almost a year to...
Asana
So its been about a month now and I am addicted to asana project manager. If you guys havent tried it out yet definitely look into it.
asana.com
My life is basically composed of millions of projects. Some personal most are for my business and some are just life projects. After using asana everything is so much simpler and I can spend more time doign what I need to do, rather than spend...
Adwords Api
So I been messing around with the adwords api today, looks like im going to have to build a nice php5 codeigniter wrapper for this one too. What a mess, who wrote this sample code for google anyway? Garbage!!!!
So come to find out reading the tearms and conditions google has a Required Minimum Functionality.
So what that means is this : If you using the api to build a client you must make...
Codeigniter Google Analytics Library
So another day has gone and today was spent creating a codeigniter google analytics class. I started by going to google and downloading some client libraries.
http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gdata/v3/gdataLibraries.html
Which by the way google, the library is horrible.
So did some hunting around the web and found this
...
Hello World
So starting today I decided to start keeping track of my daily thoughts and contributions to my community, so what better way than a personal tech blog.
So if you all dont know who I am, well, my name is Nithin Meppurathu. Im a dude, 25 years old currently and i live in the greatest city ever, New York!
I am a full time web developer, and freelancer and owner of my company Nitmedia Web Studio...