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Glossopteris is a web design & development firm located in Sydney, Australia. We specialise in building rich, dynamic web applications. Our sites are lovingly hand-coded to meet all relevant web standards and accessibility.
Please look over our portfolio for examples of our work, past and present, or drop by the journal for some insights into life at Glossopteris and musings on the world of web design.
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Real world apps with CodeIgniter: part II
February 27, 2007
In part I of this series we talked about the logistics management tool that Glossopteris developed for a US political candidate, using CodeIgniter (CI). Part II will focus on a campaign fundraising tool that was also developed with CI.
The initial brief was a simple web form that was ... [more]
Real world apps with CodeIgniter: part 1
February 20, 2007
So after a little coaxing from Derek, I have finally gotten around to talking about what projects have been on the plate for Glossopteris for the last couple of months. This will be of some interest to the CodeIgniter community as some of these projects have been some ... [more]
Glossopteris featured in scientific publication
November 09, 2006
One of the first jobs that was undertaken here at Glossopteris, was the creation of the Animal Genome Size Database with Dr T. Ryan Gregory of the University of Guelph. The site, launched successfully in December 2005, has been written up by Dr Gregory along with the Plant and ... [more]
Complete working example of table relationships
August 01, 2006
Due to popular demand (well one person) I have added a complete working example of the table relationships framework, ready to be dropped into a CI applicatons folder. The files can be downloaded from the following link;
Files for table relationships
The zip file contains the ... [more]
Table Relationships in CI
July 31, 2006
For those of you who work with the PHP framework, Code Igniter, Glossopteris has been working on an addition to the framework that will allow for complex table inter-relationships to be assigned and simple CRUD actions to be completed. This is a pretty close mirror to the model class ... [more]