It wasn’t so many years ago that hashtags were called pound signs and microblogging sounded like something biology students did in lab class. In fact, it took Twitter 3 years, 2 months and 1 day to reach…
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Alter images on the command line with ImageMagick
If you’re a front-end web developer chances are you’ve had to resize existing images found on a server to fit your needs. There’s nothing more annoying than downloading the image, firing up photoshop, resizing it and then re-uploading it to…
Send emails with attachments from the command line
Ever needed to send someone a list of files in a directory on your server? Wouldn’t it be nice to just navigate to that folder and email the list directly from there and go on with your day? Here’s how:
A Custom List Collection for Bidirectional One-To-Many NHibernate Relationships
In most cases, when using nHibernate to map your .NET domain entities to a relational database, a bidirectional parent-child relationship is defined as an Inverse mapping on the parent’s child collection and a normal (non-inverse) mapping on the child’s reference…
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Loading png images using UIImagePickerController causes them to lose transparency and what to do about it.
I’m currently working on an application that uses PNG images as its content. I was writing a feature to let users load any images they may have in their Camera Roll or Photo Library into the application. After setting up…
Posted in Development Tagged iOS4, iPhone development, JPEG, ObjectiveC, PNG, Transparency 1 Comment
Using Drupal’s Built-in Caching Mechanisms (D6)
There comes a time in every programmer’s life when it just doesn’t make sense to make that HTTP request or run that giant query every time. Luckily for Drupal developers there is a handy solution: cache_set() and cache_get().…
Defining a Route for a Magento Store’s Homepage
Today’s post is about defining a route for a Magento store’s homepage. The default Magento homepage is a CMS page called “home”. While using the CMS allows you considerable control in defining your blocks on the page, there are some…
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The crossroads of healthcare and technology. Part 1 — The sales story.
This is the first of a five-part series discussion about the intersection of healthcare and technology. It is exciting, interesting and filled with opportunities for improvement. And the best part, we don’t have to invent anything new,…
Posted in General, Leadership, Sales Tools, Trends Tagged biotech, healthcare, ipad, marketing, medical products, sales, Sales Tools, technology 1 Comment
Getting Started with HTML5
HTML5 is a group of standards that was developed to succeed HTML 4. The HTML 4.0 spec was finalized in 1998 and since then the web has evolved to require many features that HTML 4 was not designed to…
Spelling Failure is Not an Option
The Internet is indeed the great equalizer. In removing the middle man in publishing, we’ve seen record labels crumble, bloggers get six figure book deals and more cute kitten videos than America’s Funniest Home Videos can shake a stick at.…
