I’ve seen a lot of people requesting help on figuring out routing issues on CodeIgniter (2.1.0 as of this entry). A few of them have problems creating a route to a controller folder structure (/application/controllers/folder/controller), but really it is the same as creating a custom route to a non ‘folder’ed’ controller, you just have to [...]

If you use CodeIgniter (CI) like me, you’ve probably read/heard about the CSRF protection that comes built into this great framework.  I typically kept ajax functionality (form submissions in this case) to a minimum as I wanted to focus more on development and finishing a project than prettying it up with ‘Web 2.0′ stuff. Well [...]

If you are a Volkswagen Jetta owner like me, you might eventually be faced with having to jump start your car. In my case it happened after I left my lights on at work (for some reason, the 2003 Jetta does NOT beep when the lights are on, so it is very easy to forget [...]

I don’t know about you, but I kept getting this since upgrading putty to 0.61, as 0.60 didn’t do so before. It would be an error of ‘Access Denied’ right after username entry, and all else would proceed as planned. Well I searched about it a bit and found the answer on superuser.com. PuTTY tries [...]

If you’re like me and you didn’t really look into this much, you proably were left scratching your head, or just overwhelmed with the XBMC forums trying to find something that applied to you.

If you are like me and you might have some friends who have extension numbers, or simply use something like Skype local calling (a local number, that you can dial to call international using your skype account), you want to make sure that your cell phone supports complex dial strings. I keep all my contacts [...]

I have been trying different settings, back and forth since I got the phone, and I really got good results by disabling the Location Services for the Reminders.