Most developers would agree that Magento is hands down, a great platform for e-commerce. One of the pitfalls of Magento however, is it’s lack of true content management. The system lacks any real plugins to extend the platform significantly enough to have a real content manager. Futhermore, there are very few Zend based platforms in existence,...
Internet advertising is a relatively young industry, yet in a decade we’ve seen skyrocket. While Google holds the most advertising space on the Internet, we’ve watched as Facebook has pushed it’s way into our lives reaching over 500 million users with a platform that they can totally control. Advertisers are discovering that Facebook is very...
I was stoked to hear about the alpha launch of jQuery Mobile recently, and immediately started playing with the framework. In just an hour I built a small mobile application for budget tracking, and put it up on our dev site for testing. It doesn’t do much yet.. just account creation, login and some simple credits/expenses tracking, but given the...
I’ve worked with all the major players in the PHP framework space, and there are good and bad takeaways from all of them. My goal isn’t to bash on any of the others, because they all have fairly equal strengths and weaknesses.. some obvious and others not so much. This post will instead be focused on one of my favorite frameworks, Kohana. Holy...
Buddypress is an awesome add-on for WordPress, turning an average blog into a full-featured Social Media Network or multi-user blog or forum. Buddypress Features new and robust tools built in for leveraging internal communication and promoting user interaction. Here are some highlights of why it’s often best to just build on Buddypress from the...
First, let’s grab the PEAR installer: curl http://pear.php.net/go-pear > go-pear.php sudo php -q go-pear.php Press enter to use default until you get to the file layout and edit the first to be /usr/local 1. Installation prefix ($prefix) : /usr/local 2. Temporary files directory : $prefix/temp 3. Binaries directory :...
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