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GetSimple: Simple Image Gallery Plugin
I think I’ve become addicted to GetSimple CMS. In 5 days I have fully developed 2 plugins (check out -> TweetMeme reTweet Button plugin) and started development in another. If you are a free-lance developer doing small websites for your clients, or you are just a regular guy trying to set up your small site. I recommend you check GetSimple. It’s easy to install, since it does NOT need a database. It pretty much works right out the box. Read more…
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GetSimple: TweetMeme reTweet Button Plugin
This is my first attempt at creating plugins for Get Simple CMS, an awesome CMS system I’ve been playing around lately. So, I recommend you guys check it out, if you are looking for a “Simple” content management system for your next project.
This plugin allows you to easily add TweetMeme’s reTweet Button to the content pages in GetSimple. It also includes a settings panel in the settings section of the administration area when you can customize the plugin. Read more…
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Working with Google Charts and Visualization API
This week I had the chance to play around with Google’s charts API, and let me tell you that I’m loving it. In the past couple of years I’ve had to integrate charts into the different projects. I have used everything from Fusion Charts, to PHP/SWF Charts, and DOJO’s charting engine. But, since I learned that Google provided developers with an API to create charts on the fly, I wanted to give it a try. Read more…
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Installing Zend Studio on Ubuntu 64-bit
Today I tried to install Zend Studio 7.0 on the latest 64-bit version of Ubuntu (9.10). Initially, it would just throw an error. (exec: 2481: /tmp/install.dir.2855/Linux/resource/jre/bin/java: not found). Since, the error was related to the installer not being able to find the java JRE that came bundled with the installer, I decided to install with the system’s JRE using:
./ZendStudio7_0_0.bin LAX_VM /usr/bin/java
That seemed to do the trick, but, once the installer had finished. Trying to open Zend Studio would give me an error (Failed to execute child process “/usr/local/Zend/Zend Studio-7.0.0/ZendStudio” (No such file or directory)). At this point I was about to give up, until I did a little bit of research and found that the problem was more simple that I imagined. Read more…
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Best Practices – Displaying Application Messages and Alerts
On my last post I wrote on how to debug and log error messages using Zend Framework and Firebug. Today I wanted to write on how to properly display messages and alerts to users.
There are different type of messages you can display to a user in a web application. From the typical validation messages, to a dreadful fatal error in your app. Here are some rules I tend to follow when alerting the users that they must take an action without causing confusion:
- Use the same massaging system to display all messages
- Stick to 3 different types: warning (yellow), success (green), and error (red)
- On system error, do not display the system error to the user
- Display informative messages when interface can be confusing
