Music For coding – Emancipator
So I’m stealing a great idea from the folks over at The Code Dojo and starting a series of “Music For Coding” posts. I thought it would be a fun change of pace and I loved the idea! My favorite album right now has to be “Soon It Will Be Cold Enough” by Emancipator. It’s super mellow but has a lot of energy to it. It’s mostly instrumental, but there are...
Read MoreResurrect Lost Joomla/Virtuemart Error Messages
Let me guess, you’ve got a Joomla/Virtuemart site up, but your visitors aren’t seeing any helpful error messages. Am I right? Say I try and log in with a bogus username, you’d like to see that error message down there. Username and password do not match or you do not have an account yet. …but instead you’re just getting a page refresh. Confusing, huh? Well, lucky...
Read MoreDelete Branch From Remote Git Repo [Assembla]
We’ve just started using Git and Assembla at our office for version control and ticket tracking. Having never used any sort of version control before, this has been an interesting experience. It’s been a joy to work with so far, but there have definitely been some hurdles to overcome. One issue we had was how to delete a branch that we had created that we no longer wanted to maintain....
Read MoreWoo! Wordpress 2.8.
Wordpress 2.8 is out! If you haven’t already you should go download it now. As of this post Wordpress 2.8 has been downloaded 1,522,482 times, that’s pretty amazing. I’m actually blown away every time I install a new version of Wordpress. It seems like they iron out a few more rough spots each release and the whole experience just gets that much better. As far as open source...
Read MoreUser Friendly Design: Attachment Icons
Last October I helped launch www.psylabstudios.com, an online store for my friend Lars so he can hawk merch for his band Oneiroid Psychosis. This was my first foray into ecommerce, one that went pretty smoothly all things considered. We couldn’t use SSL, so we ended up using the Google Checkout API. I wrote a custom shopping cart for the site using the Google Checkout PHP...
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