Personal Blog / Portfolio of Alex Hollyman – Web Developer at Harmony Internet

 

Welcome, my name is Alex Hollyman.

Alex HollymanI specialise in Classic ASP and PHP5 web programming powered by SQL databases.

On top of all the fantastic things I make go on behind the scenes I’m quite handy with HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery.

This is my personal site where I file away my musings, share my discoveries and show off what I’ve been doing. I’m a full-time senior developer with the Clever Web People.

CodeIgniter Documentation News Tutorial Follow-on – Adding the Ability to Edit

The official CodeIgniter documentation contains a useful tutorial on how to use CodeIgniter to create a news section on a website. Unfortunately the tutorial only shows you how to list news, view individual news posts and create new news posts. In this tutorial I will be showing how to extend this code to include the ability to edit news. I’m assuming you are using CodeIgniter 2.1 and have followed the tutorials for static pages, news section and create news items.

Getting Started with Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality (AR) is taking over were virtual reality has been failing over the years – except this time it’s different. The biggest failing with virtual reality is the simple fact that it is too discontented from, well, reality. Step in augmented reality. Augmented reality is already breaking through in to mainstream society and has been for a few years; star viewing apps, Layar and Wikitude are all extremely popular on various smart phone platforms.

Introducing the Resources section

So, I’ve decided that filling this blog with lots of random tid-bits of code and information is probably not the best use of it – instead I have decided that any posts should be a bit more useful and a bit more “blog like” instead of rehashes of “how-tos” that have already been covered on the internet somewhere more times than a teenage girl has screamed Justin Biebers’ name.