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Using Facebook Connect for your web application

Kishore Nallan — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:53:11 +0000

With the exponential growth of Facebook over the past few years, it's safe to say that quite a large number of active web users today own and use a Facebook account regularly. Facebook connect, which Facebook launched late 2008, is a set of APIs which allow you to integrate your users' Facebook profile into your ...

Writing web applications with CodeIgniter – Part 3

Kishore Nallan — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:06:29 +0000

We built a simple to-do list application last week by implementing the CI basics we learnt in first part of this tutorial. Today, let's go over some of the things that will allow you to customise and extend the CI framework for your specific needs.

Changing the default URL routing

As we have ...

Writing web applications with CodeIgniter – Part 2

Kishore Nallan — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:01:45 +0000

Last week, we covered the basic structure of a CodeIgniter application. Let's now jump right into developing a simple todo list application using CodeIgniter. We will be keeping the actual functionality of the application itself simple here, as the goal here is to give a good overview on what it takes to build a CI ...

Writing web applications with CodeIgniter: Part 1

Kishore Nallan — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:20:42 +0000

CodeIgniter is a PHP framework that makes writing secure web applications a breeze. Being extremely light weighted, it's an impressive toolkit which promotes the Model-View-Controller (MVC) approach to software development. CodeIgniter's incredibly useful libraries, helpers and simplicity give you a sound foundation to quickly build your web apps on. This will be the first part ...

Creating an inline contact form

Kishore Nallan — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:41:50 +0000

Customer feedback is arguably one of the most critical factors determining the success of a product over a period of time. Hence, it's not surprising that many websites have some form of contact form or another to encourage users to write back to them. Most of these "contact" pages tend to be on a separate ...

Avoiding long polling

Kishore Nallan — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:04:02 +0000

Right from Twitter to Google Wave, real time information streaming via the browser seems to be the most “happening” thing on the web arena currently. However, feeding real time information as and when it is available to an user using your web application is not as straight forward as it is on a desktop environment.

Light weight alternatives to Apache

Kishore Nallan — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:12:44 +0000

When it comes to choosing a Linux web server, Apache, as we all know, is almost a de facto standard. There is even a chance that your web host does not even offer (or worse, know of) an alternative web server. So, it’s not a big surprise that many developers don’t know too much about what other alternatives are available to them.

Dual form processing

Kishore Nallan — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:18:39 +0000

Recently, a client of mine wanted a single web form, residing on the localhost to submit the form contents to a database in the localhost, and as well as to a web server simultaneously. Although this sounds like an unnecessary duplication of data, my client wanted some of the form data to be stored on ...