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15 Sep
I’m looking for new programs that can help me with my wireframes.
This website provided some good ideas.
http://www.cmswire.com/cms/featured-articles/web-design-top-5-wireframing-tools-002922.php
here’s the ones I’m looking at a bit closer.
http://www.axure.com
http://hello.hotgloo.com/
http://www.jumpchart.com/tour/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8487
9 Sep
This is an unusual one. In the e-commerce system I use, Trading Eye, it’s always bugged me that we had to input the Post & Packaging less VAT. The system then adds VAT on at the check out. When someone pointed out this may be illegal I’ve been tasked with finding out if that is [...]
9 Sep
I wanted to find a better solution to inputting dates on a form than expecting users to manually input dates.
I searched for AJAX date pickers and there were a number of options, although a lot of them were calendars and not specific date pickers. I’d heard a lot about jQuery so I decided to give [...]
9 Sep
Problem: Copying the result from a formula field as a numeric value and not the formula. For example if your calculating the combined total of 2 fields and you then want to copy that result for use elsewhere. If you simply use copy and paste what you actually copy is the formula that you’ve used [...]
9 Sep
To upload data from Excel into a MySQL database the easiest option to export the data as a CSV file. Make sure the columns of data match the fileds in the database, minus the id field, if you have one, as this will be automated.
Your csv line have to be something like this “Rei”,”New Tokyo [...]
8 Sep
I’ve been having problems with an old version of Python on my server. I searched online for a solution but found very little help upgrading Python. There was some suggestions to use virtualenv to have a sandbox Python environment. This was to use different versions of Python at the same time so an upgrade wouldn’t [...]
3 Sep
http://www.ragesw.com/products/domainer/download/
This looks promising. It’s commercial software – $39.95
3 Sep
I recently sent out a request to a tech list for suggestions for ways to monitor my web server. Here’s the results.
Hi,
I’ve just found out about a new monitoring idea someone at work is looking into using twitter. They have created an account for system updates then set up other accounts to follow this and [...]
13 Aug
I’m fairly new to Sub Version, and to get it working on my Mac has been a challenge. But in true blogging style I thoughts I’d share my experience. After using Sub Version in action in a small development time it becomes increasing important if your working in a team on a web project, or [...]
13 Aug
http://www.e-moxie.com/resources/tips/tip-copy-folder-without-hidden-svn/
This provides a real time saver and an issue that I’ve been wrestling with recently.
A tip for MAC/Linux users using SVN.
One of the issues that I was running into when developing websites using SVN was that I wanted to copy an existing folder from one site to another one but when copying the folders would [...]