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I can't decided if blogging is good in that people can share ideas and speak their mind, or it is bad for the same reasons.

Vim takes the cake

September 6, 2011, 5:41 pm (8 Months, 1 Week, 5 Days, 13 Hours, 4 Minutes Ago) . posted by Matthew Craig

Ok, those of you who follow my website know that I am continually trying new IDE's and technologies to try to be better and more efficient at what I do.  Several months ago I decided I would give VIM a try.  I have used VIM exclusively for 3 projects (now working on my fourth).  And I got annoyed at VIM because I'm a horrible typist and accidentally hit the wrong keys some times, so I decided I'd give eclipse another go around. I installed, configured and started using...

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Authorization For Codeigniter

July 26, 2011, 9:44 am (9 Months, 3 Weeks, 3 Days, 11 Hours, 1 Minute Ago) . posted by Matthew Craig

User Authentication I have easily spent months of my career writing user authentication systems/classes for PHP.  And even quite a few for codeigniter.  They are always a pain, and are always complicated.  They require the most attention to detail and security.  I have found (what I think) is a moderately well written user authentication class called "tank_auth", it is fairly complicated, but it needs to be to do what it does.  I will have to do a review of...

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File Manager for CKEditor

July 26, 2011, 9:32 am (9 Months, 3 Weeks, 3 Days, 11 Hours, 13 Minutes Ago) . posted by Matthew Craig

Want a file manager? This is just a quick note.  I came from using FCKEditor to the new CKEditor and I was very sad to see that the Image manager was no longer included as part of the package.  After looking around, It was very hard to find, and the documentation was pretty poor (especially on the part of CKEditor).  But I managed to find this gem: Core Five Labs FileManager While this has no "built-in" authorization protocol to protect against unintended usage, it...

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880 Free Ebooks for Nintendo 3DS

June 27, 2011, 4:59 pm (10 Months, 3 Weeks, 1 Day, 17 Hours, 47 Minutes Ago) . posted by Matthew Craig

The Nintendo 3DS as an Ebook Reader? I have been reading most of the day about the Nintendo 3DS and people's attempts at making it an ebook reader. And I have discovered there are a few ways to get ebooks on there, but they are either costly or difficult. I just learned that the 3DS has launched a web browser (this month if what I read is correct). This means that the Nintendo 3DS now has access to over 880 Free Classic Ebooks. I created a website specifically for my Nintendo DS (I have...

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14 May 2011 - Learned Today

May 14, 2011, 12:26 am (1 Year, 6 Days, 14 Hours, 20 Minutes Ago) . posted by Matthew Craig

Activating a new network card in Ubuntu 10.04 Server Ok, I want to make this quick because I'm sick and tired.  Literally, entire family is sick, and I've been trying to figure this out. I just got it and want to write it down before I lose it. I just installed Ubuntu 10.04 (LTS) Server in Virtualbox to use for local development and testing.  I had to "clone" my machine to create a second server.  In doing do I discovered that both machines reported the same...

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