The office is in a shared house in which Softerize has a dedicated room, while the meeting rooms and common areas are shared with other companies. With this space we plan to increase the number of projects we’re able to execute and gain new customers.

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The process was conducted by Marpa and was initiated in the beginning of 2010. Due to the uniqueness of the brand, there were no problems during the process. It wasn’t contested at any moment, being registered in December 2012. Now we have the certification to prove that the Softerize trademark belongs to Softerize Sistemas Ltda. for the next 10 years. Visit the INPI site (in portuguese).

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With this new way to sign in, we want to make it easier to access the app without the need of a long sing up form. We still require your email during registration, but it will only be used for notifications and password recovery. If you are interested in subjects like sustainability and global warming go to  showthatyouhelp.com and join.

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Characteristics

One of the main characteristics of CodeIgniter is the fact that it is a MVC framework. This means Model-View-Controller. The framework was structured in a way that the application is separated in models, views and controllers. Models are responsible for interacting with the database. Controllers have the logic to interact with the user. And the views are the pages. This feature makes easy for any experienced developer to understand other application developed using CodeIgniter quickly.

Its simplicity and small footprint are also important factors. It is powerful and allows the development of any kind of application, but the framework is also simple and light. So it is very easy to learn.

Community

CodeIgniter, as well as other frameworks and libraries in PHP, is an open source solution. Anyone can download it and use it for their own projects. As it was released in 2006 (a long time for a software) it already has a big portion of the market and a big community of developers. Which makes it easy to find information and solutions online.

Examples

Here are a few projects created using CodeIgniter:

http://www.showthatyouelp.com/
http://www.attcenter.com/
http://orotoro.com/
http://www.sprintcenter.com/
http://www.gamestack.net/

How to chose a framework

There are many other frameworks for PHP in the market. Here are a few:

• CakePHP: one of the oldest, has a lot of tutorials and information online, but it’s not very flexible.
• Zend: one of the most complex ones, being used for enterprise scale applications.
• Kohana: originated from CodeIgniter, it was created to work with the latest versions of PHP, using the latest features. Because it is newer, it doesn’t have such a big community.
• Laravel: developed by former CodeIgniter developers, it was also created to work with the latest versions of PHP. It’s new and has been very well received by PHP developers, but it still doesn’t have such a big community and so many projects developed.

When you chose a framework, the first thing to consider is the knowledge you and your resources have. If you have someone that already works with a framework, that helps. Even if that’s the case, the learning curve of these frameworks is not so high, and CodeIgniter is considered one of the easiest to learn.

If you need to develop something in enterprise scale, for big corporations, Zend is a good choice. It’s more complex, but also more complete. If you want the latest PHP features, Laravel is the way to go. But remember that when you choose a newer framework, that’s not widely used, you can face difficulties.

References

http://ellislab.com/codeigniter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodeIgniter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-view-controller

http://cakephp.org/

http://framework.zend.com/

http://kohanaframework.org/

http://laravel.com/

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With this update, showthatyouhelp.com got another group in the settings menu where the user can select which kind of notification he or she wants to receive. There is one weekly email sent if the user has any pending notification as well as a daily email sent for individual notifications, for example when an user connects to another user.

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We’ve used sliders before, but this time we did our own implementation. This way we ensure we have total control over what we can do with it. The other update is the inclusion of logos four our social media links, improving their visibility. We hope you enjoy it.

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In the last month we’ve been updating showthatyouhelp.com with a translation to Portuguese. If you speak Portuguese, sign up and check it out. In the future we plan to add additional languages.

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