CodeIgniter template library
Codeigniter has no functionality for handling multiple views/themes/layouts. This gives the developer a lot of freedom to choose what template library he wants to use, but some may find this a bit of a struggle. ...
Jens Segers
Full stack developer with a passion for product development & technology. Engineering manager and Solution Architect at Lighthouse.
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Beneath my desk I have an Intel i5 (Asus H67) powered Windows 2008 R2 server running serving as a NAS with a whole bunch of hard drives. The disk mode is set to 'RAID' in the BIOS because of a RAID 1 array ...
Codeigniter 2: CSRF Protection
Codeigniter 2.0 adds an new security feature to prevent CSRF attacks. Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) is one of the most common vulnerabilities in websites and web applications.
Website speed tip: leverage browser caching
One of the most common suggestions on Google's page speed test is Leverage browser caching . This means that for those resources the browser does not know how long to keep these file in its cache.
Redirect users to www using htaccess
On all my websites I redirect all users to the domain including the www prefix. I prefer it this way just because I think it looks cleaner. I have read that it might have an effect on google's pagerank but ...
Codeigniter authentication library download
Many of you guys prefer to just download a complete code instead of reading my 3 piece tutorial on how to create this library. For those guys I will put a basic codigniter authentication library available for download here
Codeigniter authentication library 3/3
In the previous part of the authentication library posts I explained how to generate a secure token for each user and the basic functions that are needed to create and delete the cookie.
Codeigniter authentication library 2/3
We will generate a unique personal authentication token that will tell us whether the user is logged in or not. To do so we will use the hash_hmac function to get our token:
Codeigniter authentication library 1/3
Website security is becoming more and more important to every web developer. I wanted to write a simple yet secure authentication library for Codeigniter that would not need a lot of resources. By writing this ...
Lithium-ion battery tips to maximize the lifespan
The last few days I did some research about Lithium-ion batteries that are used by cellphones, laptops and many other electronic devices. Whenever I get a new device I try to take care of the battery as much ...
jQuery: open external links in a new window
While working on some websites I needed a javascript that would open all external links in a new windows. So I did a quick search on google, only to find a lot of different solutions for this problem. Most ...
Windows dutch keyboard layout for bootcamp
When you have a Windows bootcamp partition, Apple's bootcamp setup will install a 'Dutch - Apple' keyboard layout. But for some strange reason this layout is not completely correct. The official keyboard layout will ...
Cinch: Windows' areo snap for Mac OSX
When regularly switching between operating systems like Windows 7 and Mac OSX like myself, you'll often notice handy features missing in both operating systems that you're used to. One of the things I missed in ...