eBay and PayPal opened registration for their Innovate developers conference on Wednesday. eBay had canceled its own Developers Conference, scheduled to take place June 7 – 9, 2011, and decided to merge it with PayPal’s X Innovate Developers Conference in October under a new name, X.commerce Innovate. The conference will […]
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It’s easy to show lists of posts in WordPress. Your theme’s index.php file is probably handling all your categories, authors and search requests. However, sometimes you need a little more control. Perhaps you have multiple product pages but only want to feature two or three on your home page without […]
July 2011 – Hush, the nightwear and loungewear mail order company, has re-platformed and re-designed its online shop at http://www.hush-uk.com. The new e-commerce website has been designed and developed by Screen Pages (http://www.screenpages.com), the e-commerce services company, using Magento. Founded in 2003 by Mandy Watkins, Hush has grown from a […]
By Jason Beaird 25th Jul 2011 Color, General, Layout Tutorial 1 Closely related to the idea of unity is the concept of emphasis or dominance. Rather than focusing on the various elements of a design fitting together, emphasis is about making a particular feature draw the viewer’s attention. When you […]
Rails Gem Dependencies, Continued We left off with the TZInfo gem last time, and we’ll start with ERubis in this article. Erubis is an implementation of eRuby, which is the Ruby expressions between the % % in Ruby views. ActionPack is kind of a big deal. The rubydoc for ActionPack […]
In the two previous posts in this series Facebook in a Windows Phone 7 App and Using Windows Live ID in a Windows Phone App you saw how to use “OAuth 2” to authenticate using Facebook and Windows Live Id. Other social networking platforms use “OAuth 1” which is much […]
Everyone has at least one thing they learned to do the wrong way. Anything from spelling a word to playing a sport, or perhaps even driving! Yet, even after discovering the right way of doing it, most people still continue with their bad old habits. And this is no surprise […]
If you’re reading this blog post because you’re trying to avoid doing something you don’t enjoy, I have a suggestion for you. Stop. If you’re not enjoying the task you’re on, do something else. Stop?! But I’ll never get anything done! The employee mindset tells us we must do the […]