How to check if plugin is loaded in jQuery

This is a short simple quick tip, I re-use a lot of my code, ( it’s called going green ) anyway sometimes I forget to remove some common jQuery plug-in call’s that I use a lot like Lightboxes, Choosen Selects, jEditable, etc, etc. So I find just adding a quick check to make sure the [...]

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Making a Two-Column layout in CodeIgniter Bonfire

Ok so I’ve been told the stock default Bonfire navigation is confusing which I always thought it made total sense but whatever, I’ve been asked a few times on how to make a 2 column layout for Bonfire so here’s some of the changes I made to my personal admin template that seem to help [...]

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CSS Coding Conventions and being a team playa! – Rant

Ok, there’s already been a metric uckton of CSS Style Guides written, and they were not written by evil insane google clown’s posse drinking corporate kool-aid while sacrificing a unicorn to honor the gods of Windows and other properitory while little umpa lumpa’s were doing the Ubuntu Dance in he forrst, no these guides were [...]

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Fixing Ubuntu 11.xx Laptop Users on Hibernation Issues and Battery Life

Ok so basically if you use Ubuntu 11 series or any of the newer Unity based Ubuntu’s on a Laptop, then I’m sure you’ve noticed that Hibernation does not work, and even kills your battery eventually since what happens is that instead of actually going into hibernation mode it starts the process then shuts the [...]

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A quick tip on CodeIgniter and Bonfire’s Model for evil!

Yes its 2am and I can’t sleep so let’s make a quick post on using Bonfire’s Model for evil Ok that was just joke. Anyway Basically Bonfire’s Model was based on a lot of theory’s and code from other CI CRUD happy models. Let’s make it work for You in a way wasn’t designed for! [...]

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CodeIgniter – Bonfire Series – Quicktip Module Level Routing

HMVC CodeIgniter will read a routes file located at View Code PHP modules/modulename/config/routes.php The basic gist of using this though is that the very first segment in your route file must be the module’s name, so if you had a module named foo your routes will would need to look something like the following and [...]

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CodeIgniter – Bonfire Series – Quick-tips Fast Database to Form Dropdown menus

In the .6 Development branch there’s a feature I added to the Model that makes creating form select box options very very easy. Basically every-time I needed to make a Drop-down I had to reformat my results which was annoying to me, so I added a quick method in BF_Model to make this easier on [...]

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CodeIgniter – Bonfire Series – Quick-tips Module Config Files

This is something I haven’t seen documented before and is really easy to work with. Currently in Bonfire your Module Menu Name and Sub-menu’s are all set in your Module’s config.php file. This is basically a array of information so Let’s say you created a Articles module, but you want it to show in Bonfire’s [...]

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CodeIgniter – Bonfire Series – Quick Tips

Here’s a very short quick tip that a lot of newer Bonfire users get stumped with. In the “form_validation” library, if you use the unique rule you need to make sure you set a ID to verify against. Since the unique validation rule uses checks to make sure that it is unique it needs something [...]

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CodeIgniter – Bonfire – Dynamic Routes sorta

Here’s another quick tip and some short functions that I’ve collected from various sources awhile ago and added my own Bonfire spin to them as I use them. I would cite the original sources if I knew who they were, if some of this code looks like yours point it out to me and I’ll [...]

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