Online payment service WePay has unveiled a new merchant feature that makes it easier for small businesses to set up their own online stores. The new WePay Stores aren’t designed to replace more advanced ecommerce software solutions like Zencart or Magento. Instead, WePay Stores are best-suited for home business and […]
Daily Archives: July 21, 2011
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Ascendum Solutions, a global technology services company headquartered in Blue Ash, OH, today announced it has acquired TinyBrick, LLC, a leading provider of Magento modules and extensions for businesses to utilize Magento as their eCommerce platform. Magento, recently acquired by eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY), is one of the fastest growing, open […]
WordPress allows users to place an image into page or post content. Typically, the following HTML code is produced: img src="http://www.mysite.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/myimage.jpg" alt="my image" title="my image title" width="100" height="100" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-123" / Nothing too horrific, but what if you want to: add your own classes remove the domain from the […]
A pretty juicy title … for what is a pretty special opportunity for CSS fans! Check out what’s going on over at Learnable … Russ Weakley, a respected CSS guru, has helped thousands of students learn the ins-and-outs of CSS in his online courses Getting Started with CSS and Practical […]
This is the fourth excerpt from the book “Build Mobile Websites and Apps for Smart Devices” by Earle Castledine, Myles Eftos and Max Wheeler. BuildMobile is exclusively publishing a complete chapter from the book, the chapter on Mobile Web Apps, and this section is called “Loading Pages”. 4. Loading Pages […]
You wouldn’t believe it’s the fifth excerpt from the book “Build Mobile Websites and Apps for Smart Devices” by Earle Castledine, Myles Eftos and Max Wheeler. BuildMobile is publishing the chapter “Mobile Web Apps” from the book, this section is called “Ajax” and its getting serious. 5. Ajax We’ve now […]
Continuing from my last post about RVM, this time we’ll install Rails. Again, this series attempts to give you a bit of a deeper dive into getting started with Rails, so we will go through some of the options available when first creating your world-changing Rails application, as well as […]
In the previous post “Using Windows Live ID in a Windows Phone Application” you saw how you can authenticate a user and retrieve their profile from Windows Live. Facebook also uses OAuth 2 to allow third party applications to authenticate and interact with Facebook data. In this post you’ll learn […]
Are you on Google+ yet? For freelancers, social networks can be a good way to maintain connections and working friendships, promote our work and that of others, and substantiate our professional philosophies. But I have to admit, the opportunity to join Yet Another Social Network made me want to scream. […]