When I first started looking at Zen Cart templates, I approached the task from the perspective of creating a WordPress theme. The Zen Cart template documentation, such as it is, does a good job of explaining the directory layout to use for a custom template, but it doesn’t actually explain what PHP functions can be [...]
One of the services we provide at Communications Tool & Die is custom Zen Cart integration. Unfortunately, the existing documentation on Zen Cart template creation is…limited. I have been working on documenting the template page functions internally for our developers but once I have this in a presentable format I am going to release it [...]
The proliferation of web browsers is a real pain from a development standpoint. Every new browser is yet another platform to be supported. Every site now has yet more idiosynchrocies to take into account. So when Google announced Chrome recently, I was curious to see what the carnage would be for our design and development [...]
I recently wrote about the Dojo Docs project and how the existing Dojo documentation leaves something to be desired. There was a Stack Overflow question asking for Dojo resources and a really good list was provided. If you’re looking to learn more about Dojo, the Stack Overflow response is a great starting point.
The other day I wrote about the Stack Overflow Beta. The site is now publicly available. The creators are continuing to add improvements and you can follow along with their back end work at their blog and podcast. As I predicted, while the beta was very Windows-centric due to the social group involved, as the [...]
I have been checking out the beta of Stack Overflow, a soon-to-be-launched developer Q&A web site. The concept of the site is that you ask a question pertaining to anything in the realm of software development, and people answer. It’s a community site, and the community votes up the best answer which then [...]
Communications Tool & Die has set up a profile on the social bookmarking site del.icio.us. Check out our page here. Personally, I’m more used to furl but delicious seems to have won the mindshare of the digerati so…if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. Nevertheless, it will take a little bit of [...]
We are big fans of the Dojo Toolkit, but unfortunately the Dojo book that is linked to from the main Dojo web site is of limited utility. A lot of the information is out of date and there are limited programmatic examples. While the #dojo IRC channel on irc.freenode.net is a wonderful resource [...]
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