Links for 2010-11-12

CodeIgniter 2.0 – Now with more Awesome: CodeIgniter drops support for PHP 4 and now requires PHP 5.1.6 or greater.
An Open Letter to the White Right, On the Occasion of Your Recent, Successful Temper Tantrum: Anti-racist essayist and activist Tim Wise lays a verbal smackdown on the Republican’s right-most wing while pointing out that simple math and demographics suggest their race-baiting tactics won’t work much longer.
Memo to the Mind: Don’t Wander, Be Happy: A human mind is a wandering mind, and a wandering mind is an unhappy mind. That’s the conclusion of a new study by some Harvard researchers. They could have saved themselves some money and just asked me if that’s true.

http://markusrobinson.com Markus Robinson

Yay Code Igniter!! Are you still using it?
Anonymous

I do still use it, but I haven’t migrated to 2.0 yet. I have some code that needs to make sure is proper PHP5 OOP first.

I think one of my 2011 goals will be to learn Zend and/or CakePHP as well. Zend, Cake and Symphony have wider adoption in the enterprise.

Tiffany B. Brown