Something I used to do, when browser differences were almost ridiculously difficult to manage, is use the worst browser as my primary browser. Winner of the “Worst Browser” award changed hands often, but these days it’s championed by the corporately entrenched yet sorely outdated IE 6. The fastest way (for me) to test IE CSS [...]

This is a continued story from previous posts, all tagged web app dev. Ah, this is getting cleaner now. I’m really enjoying the scaffolding feature of Code Igniter. It’s a little set of controllers and views that are purely for providing a web interface to administrate your database tables. Yes, I can interface with the [...]

This is a continued story from previous posts, all tagged web app dev. The last couple days I’ve had the privilege of being able to share my database schema and intentions with a real application developer. He pointed me towards some simple, yet important conventions – perhaps most critically, a logic for database table creation [...]