Refresh Detroit March Meeting
So I attended the Refresh Detroit meeting a few days ago in Ann Arbor, MI. The speaker was Barb Hernandez, User Experience Manager at TechSmith. She talked about refreshing the UI of SnagIt.
SnagIt is a screen capture application for Windows. I am not familiar with too many trialware applications for windows since its not part [...]
PHPSimpl 0.8.5 Feature Release
Long awaited features now implemented. Main highlights include cross database join’s. Functions on DisplayList() fields and a way to change where the required indicator (*) is on forms and the character that is displayed after the label.
A rundown of the complete changes include:
Updated example
Completely rewritten Export class with CVS, JSON, XML and SQL support
Export() function [...]
PHPSimpl 0.8.4 Feature Release
Yay! New Year, New Release. Its been a while since our last release and we apologize, all of us have been pretty busy and we were down two full time developers in the department. This release is a mix of additional features and bug fixes. We hope to release more often this year since we [...]
Road to validation.
Overseeing the current Wayne State University homepage is like running with a tiny pebble in your shoe. You feel it every step but your going so fast you cannot stop to take it out.
Working with a site so large it can become discouraging but taking one step at a time one can accomplish anything. Yesterday [...]
Battling massive amounts of email
Sending email from a web site using PHP’s mail() function is a pretty routine task. Contact forms, friend requests, alerts, errors… Servers hosting one or two sites the time to send an email is not even noticeable, but on a server that hosts 200+ sites the time creeps up the two to three second range.
In [...]