I am trying to use Netbeans PHP and have a LOCAL copy of WordPress with a remote mysql database. This was an obscure error which the following php revealed some hints. Note that the @ is NOT in front of the mysql_connect statement – this means you will see all the errors generated when something […]
I will do my best to give everyone credit where credit is due – I have looked at so many websites. Is your app waiting for the network or an online resource and are you ensuring your users know that there is something going on? If you don’t take care of this or give your […]
The human request was to see all the video camera feeds from the preschool classroooms on an iphone. Great: This is an app for a non-profit organization that has preschool classes and other ages above this. The intent is that parents can take the material and continue mentoring their kids ALONG with the organization. This […]
To allow macs to see other drives other than local ones (see link below), you basically edit a setting on your mac create a sparse bundle using some unix commands – make it at least 3 times larger than your expected data to be backed up MOVE that sparse bundle to a remote machine and […]
Macs are not perfect even though one’s productivity is much higher with one. When things go wrong – they can sometimes really go wrong. One customer had issues with a critical branding font that installs fine on everyone else’s Macbook but not theirs. I now know more about fonts that I ever wanted to know […]
The service providers and even the Applestore do not know the simple art of setting up an email account NOT as an iCloud account or provider account. It is simple to do knowing a few basics of what you can do. A lot of us have our own domain names or preferred email accounts that […]
Bonita Open Source (BOS) is a system to allow an organization that is local or across the globe to work a process from start to it’s finish and know where in the process one is. You can start one or dozens of the same one or different ones. As a friend of mine said – […]
I am now a fan of WordPress. It is not that it is the best for myself or my customers but it is the penetration into the market and how well it gets along with its friends like Google, Facebook and so many other web services. There are more plugins that do the same thing, […]
The title is meant to be catch your attention – and even I sometimes ask that question. It bothers me because people are so much more than just a programmer – but a solutions provider and go waaaaaay beyond technical know. Soft skills learned in the leadership masters degree for example, is primarily people related […]
One customer wanted a booking system that allowed 3 bookings at most at one time with a 15 minute buffer in between. So was born www.bookmedanno.com (you have to be old to get that joke). Coming is the ability to book and pay for a booking – but that aside … The big challenge was […]