How to Rip DVDs with Handbrake

How to Rip DVDs with HandBrake

My sister was wondering how to rip the DVDs she own’s to a format that she can put onto her iPhone/iPad. I put together some instructions for her on how to do it, and figured I’d share those. So here are some instructions for those who are curious.

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Tiles Plugin for CodeIgniter

Tiles Plugin for CodeIgniter

I have developed a tiles plugin, I guess you could say, for the CodeIgniter framework. I use it exclusively in my CodeIgniter projects as it helps me to put together pages quicker and more effectively. My goal of this post is to explain what I have done, it’s structure, setup and configuration, as well as provide the source for those who would like to use it within their own projects.

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GWT EventHandler Removal

GWT EventHandler Removal

In the application I am working on, I’m leveraging the SimpleEventBus to register my EventHandler while the page is active. Once the page went inactive due to being added to a history widget, or was removed from the DOM, I wanted to deregister the EventHandler so that it wasn’t active and responding to fired events unnecessarily. The SimpleEventBus featured an addHandler method that allowed me to register the EventHandler, but it does not have a removeHandler method that allows for the removal of the EventHandler that was registered.

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Why I Love CodeIgniter

Why I Love CodeIgniter

I have looked at and used a lot of different PHP frameworks over the years for work and freelance projects, ranging from CakePHP to Zend, but I never truly enjoyed working within any of them until I discovered CodeIgniter. I have been using CodeIgniter since its early versions, and have seen the framework grow and progress, and I still enjoying using it as much as when I discovered it.

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