Here is an interesting article about Dries’ vision for Drupal 8: http://www.cio.com.au/article/411440/dries_vision_drupal_8/ I like the focus on the editorial experience to help people mange content on-line, drupal is great CMS but it can sometimes be quite difficult for non webbies & techies to effectively manage the content on their drupal websites – in […]
Recent denials by Nokia that they are about to be taken over by Microsoft brings this line from Yes Minster to my mind: James Hacker: First rule in politics: never believe anything until it’s officially denied. ;)
I am happy to report that I have had a reasonably easy run of using OpenCV from a .NET C++/CLI project, I was initially worried that the two might not play well together, but so far – so good! I am wrapping some machine vision code that uses OpenCV in a C++/CLI assembly so that […]
Just catching up with things after Christmas, one thing that escaped my notice in December was that Google released version 1.6.1 of their Cloud App Engine SDK on 13th. of December. There’s not a huge amount of interest really in this release, but two items did catch my eye: You can now select how […]
If you are hooking magento up to realex for payment on your eCommerce website then you will most likely be using the payments module kindly provided by StudioForty9 in Cork. As part of configuring this you will need to tell realex what your cart’s ‘return URL’ is, this URL has changed since the introduction […]
I was having some trouble getting Visual Studio 2010 to stop at breakpoints in some unmanaged C++ code that’s in a C++/CLI project that I am working on, and as we all know Software Developments rapidly stops being fun if your debugger is broken! I am using C++/CLI as a thin wrapper around this vanilla […]
Some time ago I posted that some of Pride Design’s websites had got through to the finals of Irish Web Awards but I haven’t posted since to let you know how we got on….. Well the really good news is that Cheffactor won in the ‘Best Microsite’ category – so we are very happy […]
Congratulations to our favourite Mobile App Localization company Tethras who won the Dublin round of the seedcorn competition. Best of luck for the finals!
Here is a very handy article that explains how you can alter your app’s setup project in Visual studio to install an Event Log Component so that your non-service app, when installed, can write to the windows event log without getting security errors: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/f5dcf6h3(v=vs.80).aspx
Good news! Four of Pride Design‘s websites have got through to the finalists list in the Irish Web Awards 2011, my favourite – The Cork News has got through to the finals in two categories – Most Beautiful Website in Ireland & Best Online Publication Categories. Pride Design are also in the finals […]