July 1, 2010 is quickly approaching. I know this, because I am currently working on a couple of ecommerce projects. One thing that struck me is the number of custom built shopping cart solutions out there. Personally I like these custom solutions, because they can be tailored to the specific needs of a client’s customers. You can support odd configurations and logic that an off-the-shelf solution may not support. The challenge is making sure the solution is compliant with credit card regulations otherwise known as PCI-DSS.
It took some trial and error to create an appropriate paint method for inactive items in an item delegate for QT’s list view. Here are some pointers.
Some Wordpress plugins and themes require you to supply a list of page ids. This brief video tutorial shows you how to get those IDs for a page or post.
Mary of ProVirtual Solutions suggested the Reveal IDs for WP-Admin plugin to help get the IDs .
Unfortunately I don’t get much time to read, but when I do I like things that combine inspiration with action. Here are some great reads in relationship to Web Application developer or business in general. These have certainly shaped the way I approach application development and business.
- The Agile Manifesto
- Getting Real
- The Mythical Man Month
- The Cathedral & The Bazaar – Amazon or Online.
- The Pragmatic Programmer
A friend in his newsletter, BLIANESWORLD asked:
Have you ever switched your email address? I know it is a pain, but I’m thinking
of doing so sometime in the future.As such, I have heard that there are services that make this much easier for you
to make such a switch. If so, have you ever used such services? And if you have,
what was your reaction to them?
My answer, don’t consolidate instead.
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Yesterday I read in the Wall Street Journal weekend addition that Google may be purchasing Yelp. A web application that contains over 8 million reviews by people like myself. It also contains a community of people who want their voice to be heard and a large volunteer base that has promoted the site. That’s a lot of crowd sourcing to build quite the asset. $500 million’s worth to Google and possibly $750+ million to other potential buyers. Now that others have outbid Google.
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If you are running with the latest version of PHP & SQL Server on Windows. Make sure you control how dates are formatted especially for smalldatetime. If you let PHP use its built in function you could get strange results ranging from Chinese to French. Jui isn’t the same as Jul and that confuses strtotime().
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