.NET Framework
Subversion On Windows?!
It’s no secret that I have been contact almost daily by Technical Recruiters , often the job advertisements that the technical recruiters…
Category: Programming
Magento
Magento – Stuck in Maintenance Mode
After upgrade magento to 1.5.0.1, my client’s website was stuck in magento maintenance mode. I wasn’t able to easily find a way…
SQL Server
SQL University & #SQLHelp On Twitter
In the last three months, I can say that I have learned more about SQL Server than ever before because of the…
Firefox
Component returned failure code: 0x805e000a
Error: uncaught exception: [Exception… “Component returned failure code: 0x805e000a [nsIXMLHttpRequest.open]” nsresult: “0x805e000a ()” AdBlock interferes with the XmlHTTPRequest object and is known…
PHP
PHP MS SQL Truncated VarChar(255)
I don’t often have fields much longer than 256 char, but a web application I am working on makes use of varchar…
PHP
Resolving Session Not Saving
Tonight, I’ve encountered a very strange situation where the session data was empty after each page reload. Have you ever had an…
Magento
How do I upgrade magento?
Before you upgrade magento you should be sure to make a complete back up of your files and your database. (It also…
Magento
Magento – Adding Feaured Products to Front Page
The owner of Nature Bumz wanted to be able to add featured products to the home page of their magento store each…
CSS
Table Based Layouts Unnecessary (Part 1)
More and more often as I develop websites for companies located around Niagara Region (Fort Erie, Niagara Falls, St Catharines, Welland) I…
Magento
Magento – Setting Paypal to Redirect Back
Quick steps on how to redirect back to your magento store upon a successful purchase. Unfortunately, you can only redirect to one…
Wordpress
WordPress – Auto Tweeting
A couple of visitors have asked me how I am automatically tweeting my post title to twitter: I’m of course using a…
Programming
Canadian Software Developers on Twitter
I am very honoured to say that I have been mentioned by John Bristowe as one of the developers in Canada You…
Magento
BRCline Consulting – 1st Magento Site
BRCline Consulting has been busy working on its first ecommerce site to create Niagara Fall’s Natue Bumz Cloth Diaper Shop. The owner,…
PHP
Magento – How to Enable Logging
Magento is an excellent project that so far hasn’t been too difficult to program for. Initially learning how to use magento has…
MODx
MODX Base HREF
There’s a lot of sites incorrectly showing how to use site_url in both MODx Evolution and MODx Revolution. Primarily, I use site_url…
Book Review
Book Review: jQuery in Action
jQuery in Action, First Edition is written by Bear Bibeault and Yehuda Katz and is probably the simplest and easiest to understand…
MODx
MODx Code Mirror
<a href="http://modxcms.com/extras/package/?package=693">Code Mirror</a> is a great addition to MODx Revolution that serves as a very useful EditArea replacement.
Drupal
Drupal CCKEditor
Installing CCKEditor for Drupal is pretty easy, but does require the two downloads. CCKEditor Module and the actual editor. If you haven’t…
Firefox
Easily Take Screenshot of Page in Firefox
Every web developer or computer programmer spends time taking pictures of websites for their portfolio. Taking screenshots of pages that have a…
JavaScript
jQuery + PHP to parse XML
jQuery is very well suited for cross browser JavaScript development, but I bet you didn’t know jQuery is also fairly well suited…