Hi everyone!  I wanted to give you an update on the state of CI.

First, let me apologize for not being more active around there.  Inactivity in these forums, however, doesn’t mean that we’ve lost interest in CI or stopped development.  On the contrary.  CI is actually a central part of our 2007 goals.  In fact, CI is going to be developed formally by our team now, instead of being my personal hobby project.  That transition is already taking place, and as soon as next month some exciting things will begin emerging as a result, and continuing throughout the year.

By the way, one of our goals this year is to enable developers to become more successful on the web.  So beyond our CI development goals, you’ll see some resources put into place that help connect clients with developers.

Over the past year (wow, it’s been nearly a year!) CI has found a significant user base, and a fantastic one too.  I’m continually impressed with the quality of people that participate in these forums.  Given its growth, I think we’re at a point where it makes sense to assemble an advisory board, and perhaps even allow some third-party developers to contribute formally.  Candidly, the project has grown too big for me alone, so I’m ready to welcome participation from others.  I’ll post more about this very soon…

I want to also formally announce that we’ve hired Derek Allard to join our team.  Personally, I’m very excited about this.  He brings a lot of talents with him, not the least of which is his expertise with CI.  But most of all, he has an infectious enthusiasm.  Initially he’ll be leading our tech support team, but very soon we hope to expand his role into development and various other areas.

Next, we finally have a Subversion repository in place.  I’m sorry it took us so long, but our server admin has been working insane hours over the past few months as part of our hosting expansion.  We’ve been putting a lot of new hardware in place in order to keep up with the growth.  Unfortunately, our development box kept getting shoved aside.  I should be able to publicly post the URL within the next couple days. 

Again, let me apologize for being so absent around here.  Six years ago I was a freelance web developer.  Today I run a company with 11 people, so the demands on my time are pretty intense.  I’m VERY excited about all our CI goals, though, and look forward to seeing them unfold this year.

Lastly, I want to also thank every one of our users.  I appreciate your support very much, and I hope CI can help you meet your goals on the web!

Awesome! Thanks for the update Rick. I’m really excited about the changes to come and whatever is in store for CI throughout this year. :D

Rick,

Thanks for all the work you’ve done to make this a successful framework. 

I’d like to contribute a native IBM DB2 driver, which uses the ibm_db2 PECL extension (db2_*) instead of Unified ODBC (odbc_*).  This driver will support DB2 UDB, Cloudscape, Apache Derby, and Sun Java DB on PHP 4/5.

Is this an addition that would require waiting until the formal process is in place?

Wow! that’s really good news. what a relief!‘m excited to see next version.

Congrats to Derek too

rick, ive got a big sloppy kiss for ya

WOW! This sounds really great.

I think this is a very good decision. Derek has been very helpful on this forum all the time.

Thats great news Rick, i guess this means a growth of an exiciting development community. Great Work indeed….
And gradulations Derek. 

Excellent news! This totally vindicates my companies choice to use CI. Thanks Rick!

//Edit: and well done Derek!

Thanks for all and no matter you were not there for a long time. Nobody has enough time to spend on this .
See you and Good luck for the next year.

SVN?!? Yay!!!
All we need now is a bug tracking site. Sweet!

alex

I was expecting a news flash like this one. Great news. Thank you Rick for your dedication and the effort you put into CI. Derek, congratz even though you made the most useless helper in the world I bet you’ll be an addition to the team

Its all Good….. SWEET!!!!

Excellent news! Congratulations Derek!

W0rd!

Like the sound of this. I’m excited that CI will be developed formally, well done on everything so far, and congratulations to Derek. I’m pleased to part of this community now!

Whew!  This is a great time to be a Code Igniter-er.  Our framework is growing in popularity, the community is growing, the project is growing, and now we’ve evolved to take the next step.  And I guess I’m really out of the closet now.  I’ve been at pMachine now for 3 days.  While my job isn’t formally related to CI, I consider one of its big perks that I get to stay closely involved with CI.

not the least of which is his expertise with CI

The least of my talents are plentiful and broad.  Can’t cook.  Can’t paint a room to save my life. Can’t make myself sound like James Earl Jones during audio recording (I swear my voice isn’t that wimpy in everyday life:)).  Can’t seem to give up coffee (I guess that’s not a talent)... but what I can do is help this project to be even better then it already is. 

I look forward to seeing CI grow and evolve again.  We’ve chatted about how the project was about to erupt… well, here we are.  Keep erupting!  I’m proud to continue to be involved with all of you.  Keep Igniting!