How my Computer Science Degree Actually Hurt my Internet Business
Most online entrepreneurs that I have met are not technical people. More often than not they are visionaries with some other specialize skill set like accounting, investment banking, or general business to name a few. For these people the fears and difficulty they have is the technical stuff: putting up their website, search engine optimization, ...
Install SSL Certificate in OpenCart
Installing a SSL certificate is a breeze in the open source e-commerce system OpenCart. First make sure you purchase a SSL or Secure Certificate and that it is activated for your domain where OpenCart is installed. Next, login to to the admin section of your OpenCart site at http://www.example.com/admin/. Then go to System > Settings, Click ...
Twitter Bootstrap Theme for Drupal 6
I decided to give Twitter Bootstrap a try for my new mobile theme and design website. Unfortunately, I was unable to find a Bootstrap 2 theme for Drupal 6, so I ported it over myself. Since I use so much open source software, I decided a few months back that I want to start contributing more ...
Drupal Imagecache Setup
One of the biggest benefits of Drupal is that it is highly flexible. But with great flexibility comes great complexity. Such is true when configuring our mobile design marketplace with imagecache in order to watermark, resize, and link the uploaded mobile themes to the proper url. The trick is finding what to configure and where ...
[SOLVED] PhoneGapDelegate::shouldStartLoadWithRequest: Received Unhandled URL about:blank
Using ChildBrowser with PhoneGap on iOS: On iOS, the web view that PhoneGap provides doesn’t handle about:blank. After updating Xcode and iOS 5.1 SDK I began receiving the following error when I launched a browser on my actual device: PhoneGapDelegate::shouldStartLoadWithRequest: Received Unhandled URL about:blank Thanks to <a href=”http://www.jamesjoycewaskorean.com/#20110908150931″>James Joyce</a> for this fix: The fix is twofold and ...
How to Parse a RSS Feed in Java
A while back I was required to parse an rss feed on my company’s website. Having little experience with Java Tag Libraries (.tld), I decided to give one a try. The following is how I implemented RSS into a JSP page. Import and include the tag library into your project. In this case it is ...
Release Early, Release Often
As a software developer, I have repeatedly heard the phrase release early, release often. But in the back of my mind, I have always wondered how companies handle customers when they release buggy software. Well, the other day I finally got my answer and found it quite amusing. After downgrading a failed major upgrade on ...
Easily Parse XML
How to Easily Parse XML XML is used a lot on the internet and in business . For instance, it is used by Blogs in a format called Real Simple Syndication, or RSS , to allow people to read a blog without actually visiting the blog’s website. XML is also used to store reference information ...
Rounded Corners with The GIMP
Creating Round Corners These days more often than not, people want rounded corners instead of the regular squares on images for websites, print work, and photographs. It is true that this can be done in Photoshop and other expensive programs . However, why pay all that money when it can be done very easily with ...
Call Web Service in Java
Consume a Web Service with Java As I stated before, calling a web service in .Net is easy . However, using a Java Web Service is a little more difficult . This is not because .Net is superior to Java, but instead because of the various standards that Java allows for since it is open ...
