While moving a SugarCRM installation to a different server I found this problem - “MySQL not available”. Firstly I had a blank page and then decide to re-run the installation script. During the system check it listed MySQL as not available, so I checked for the status of the mysql server and it was running. [...]

[Read more →]

IE8 Beta has been released specially for developers and web programmers. It comes with some interesting features:
* IE7 Emulation
* Developer Tools for debugging, with similar functionality to the Firefox Ad on  (mentioned just as a reference not as a comparison).
*  IE8 activities - Providing quick access to external services from any webpage by sending information from the page to another application or fetching external information related to data on [...]

[Read more →]

the get_excerpt function on Wordpress shows the first 55 words of your post, striped out of any special formatting eg: links, bold, etc.  I wanted to change it for a blog I was developing so I traced it back to the function wp_trim_excerpt in the file \wp-includes\formatting.php. In this file you can change the value [...]

[Read more →]

On my previous post I wrote about e-comerce tutorials. As part of the system I’m buiding I was looking for a pre-coded shopping cart in PHP (the cart only with nothing else attached to it).  I was getting very fustrated with the ammount of stuff that came with every single shopping cart I found out [...]

[Read more →]

I’ve embarked in a journey of building  a tailor-made E-commerce system. I need to be able to have everything my client needs so I’m coding it from scratch, with the help of some good tutorials I found online. Sometimes having to search for  while to find a good tutorial. My plan is to share here [...]

[Read more →]

I’m in the process of learning vs2005.net. Every once in a while I run into a problem that makes me run to Google. This is no exception. I wanted to validate the the asp.net CheckBoxList control to make sure that at least one item from the list was checked. I found [...]

[Read more →]