I was back at my first Refresh Belfast for a while, where the Rumble Labs team walked us through the difficult development process of a web application they’ve been working on. This is How Not to Build a Web App.
For one reason and another I hadn’t attended a Refresh Belfast event for a number of months, but last night I managed to make it to the Black Box again for this regular but informal get-together for local developers and creatives. Speaking this month was Blaine Cook, principal co-author of the OAuth specification and former lead developer of Twitter, on the subject of “Putting a Finger on Web Logins”.
A new book from Packt Publishing covering the popular CodeIgniter PHP framework has been published. CodeIgniter 1.7, written by Jose Argudo and David Upton, aims to help you “improve your PHP coding productivity with [...] the powerful and popular CodeIgniter framework” and is designed as a companion to the excellent user guide that ships with CodeIgniter itself.
A few weeks ago I wrote about the launch of Public Records Office of Northern Ireland’s new searchable archive of Belfast Street Directories. I’ve now uploaded some coverage of the launch event, originally broadcast on UTV on 23rd September 2009.
I admit it, I like to Twitter (Tweet). To help me feed this addiction even when I’m away from the computer I’ve been using the 0.9 beta versions of Twibble Mobile, a free J2ME Twitter client that works perfectly well on my Nokia handset so I can Tweet wherever there is a 3G connection.
Just recently Twibble has moved out of beta to a final version 1.0, but in my opinion they’ve handled it badly and risk alienating and losing the users they’ve gained up until now.
