Today our partners at Pride Design in Cork put the new Gael-Taca (http://www.gael-taca.com/) website live, once again we worked closely with pride on its development. It is fully content managed site built on drupal 6, but the really interesting thing about it is that it’s multi-lingual – as Gaeilge agus as Bearla! (in Irish and English). […]
Good news, this just out on the wire – Drupal has won ‘Best open source PHP Content Management System‘ for the second year running! Congrats to our favourite CMS and thanks to all the many who volunteered their time to make it so great!
The new Flame By Design (http://www.flamebydesign.ie) website has gone live. We worked closely with Sinead at Pride Design to get it up and running. It is another classic content managed drupal 6 website – setup so that the client can easily add and manage the product line up and associated data via a set of specially tailored administration […]
Software development can sometimes be a comical affair, I have just been caught out badly by a strange gotcha – it appeared that #pragma once stopped working on a Visual Studio C++ project on which I have been working. I was getting plenty of error messages about redefined classes! Well it turns out that I had left […]
I ran into a problem the other day with .NET’s Convert.ToDecimal() , it turns out that it doesn’t handle scientific Notation! Pass it something like “8E-5” and the poor thing just throws an exception… The software in which the problem surfaced was developed as a web application that must deal with numbers read from an Excel […]
I have been developing a web application for one of our clients using drupal, it’s a dashboard type data visualisation system that consumes and displays data over an intranet from their software systems. I have been using google charts with great success. The Chart API module for drupal is very nice, it lets you quite […]
I ran into a funny problem recently with Ridge’s debian fileserver – I connected a second external USB drive to it and it stopped working! It always had one external USB drive connected, this was mapped to /dev/sda1 and auto-mounted in /etc/fstab along the lines of: /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb auto rw 0 0 Everything […]
Here’s an interesting thing, the Register reports that the whitehouse has moved its website over to drupal – http://www.whitehouse.gov/ It’s a fairly pedestrian website but it’s good to see that the fledgling administration know their web technology!
Chris Horn will give the Engineers Ireland presidential address tomorrow at Clyde Road. The talk is entitled “Software Engineering: how can we make it better?” It is great to have Engineers Ireland address software engineering topics and Chris always has something interesting and worthwhile to say and he is a no-quibbles heavy weight in the […]
Man oh Man it can be though keeping a blog on the road, and some of yee may have noticed that as well this Blog, I have been keeping a Web development blog on Pride Design for the past while now, this blog deals mostly with the fanaticising (!) world of web development and the issues […]