Have you ever heard about pay with a tweet? Pay with a Tweet is a social media marketing system that lets content creators give away access to their content in exchange for a promotional message in form of a tweet on Twitter or a wall post on Facebook.

Until now, there are two notable free services related to this; PayWithATweet and TransactSocially. Both offer pay with a tweet and wall post on facebook.

The benefits

You can get lot of benefits via viral marketing. In today’s world Networking and Socializing has made its way in most of the people’s lives. Considering this scenario viral marketing proves to be the simplest way of promoting a website or a product. It proves to be a low cost and highly efficient way of popularizing your business. Some say that viral is the new “organic“.

Read the rest of this entry »

This entry will demonstrate to you on how to code a simple blog by using CodeIgniter 2.0 or CodeIgniter Reactor. You may use whatever webserver environment that you prefer such as Xampp, Lamp, Wamp, or Mamp. In this tutorial, I would like to use Wamp.

At the end of the tutorial, you should have a simple blog system with comment function. To download the complete sourcecode, scroll down to the end of this tutorial. You also may want to view the sample here. Just want to download and get lost from here? Click the link to download the files.

1. Setup a database.

In the database named as blog, we will create a table, table ENTRY. The ENTRY table has columns such as entry_id, entry_name, entry_body, and entry_date (This is just a sample). The code is as below:
Read the rest of this entry »

Because it was officially released last month! LoL! Hehe.. Just kidding.

CodeIgniter 2.0 was officially released in two flavors, which are CodeIgniter Core and CodeIgniter Reactor. Both of them have their own specialities. But, the common changes made to them are:

• PHP 5.1 is a requirement
• CSRF Protection built into the form helper
• Drivers
• Application packages
• 50+ bugs fixed
• etc.

Read the rest of this entry »

One of my friends asking me about the term of web specialist. What are the differences between web developers and web specialists? And why do I choose to use the word specialist?

Web Developer Job Description

IMHO, the duties and responsibilities of a web developer largely depend on the employer and the pre-requisites of the project but most of them are quite same. Some of the tasks are:

• To design / develop website or web applications
• To design / develop relational database systems
• To perform Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• To monitor web server and site technical performance

The web specialists also do the same tasks with the web developers. So, why do I choose to use the word specialist? Because it sounds very exclusive! LOL!
Read the rest of this entry »

It is almost one year I’ve been using CodeIgniter framework for my projects. Personally, I like this PHP framework very much because it is small, easy to setup, no need to use command prompt and etc. Besides, the documentation is great!

However, some of my friends keep bugging me with simple questions about the framework, how to do this, how to do that, bla..bla..bla.., which are the answers already written in the documentation.

So, I’m writing this post so that they know what they should.

1. How to setup database connection.

To setup the connection, open the database.php in config folder or you can refer to the documentation for details. If errors happen such as “Cannot connect to the database with the given setting”, this is the file that you need to edit.
Read the rest of this entry »