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Google Chrome: Log Message To Chrome Console

By Joe Ybarra, Lead Developer

July 13

Tags: chrome,development best practices,javascript

Don't use javascript alerts and freak out your clients. Use Google Chrome's console to log run time messages. Here is the simple javascript method:

javascript: console.log('hello world');

This provides an unobtrusive way to understand what your javascript script is producing while your clients or audience is looking at your site.

Facebook Connect Help: cURL Error 77 Problem with reading the SSL CA cert

By Joe Ybarra, Lead Developer

June 24

Tags: facebook connect,php

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — If you are starting out with Facebook Connect and playing with the Facebook PHP SDK, you may run into a cURL error that has an error code of 77. If this is the case you may need to install the ca-certificates package to your Ubuntu installation. Here is the command line code to use:

sudo apt-get install ca-certificates

Facebook Connect Projects can really help your marketing efforts. Contact Focal55 Designer Development to create your Facebook Connect Project.

Vertical Response Tutorial: Auto Submit Contact Information

By Joe Ybarra, Lead Developer

July 11

Tags: curl,php,vertical response

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Need mailing list collection?

The following tutorial will show you how to integrate your existing form with vertical response so that you can auto post contact information into your mailing list. We hate asking users to fill out multiple forms and when we are lucky enough to get a complete form filled out we maximize it. With some good old PHP cURL magic we can accomplish this easily. This tutorial assumes you are working with PHP and that cURL works on your server. It also assumes you already have a form and it posts to a PHP script.

jQuery Tutorial: Add Class to All Outbound Links on Your Site

By Joe Ybarra, Lead Developer

June 22

Tags: jquery

This tutorial will show you how to add one line of jQuery to programmatically add a Class to any anchor link that points to another website. This tutorial assumes that you already have included the jQuery library on your page.

Here is the jQuery statement

Drupal 6 Tutorial: Find the Menu Parent Item for the Page Being Viewed

By Joe Ybarra, Lead Developer

August 31

Tags: drupal 6

ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. — If you have created a page in Drupal 6 and you need to programmatically find the page's menu parent, Drupal has a very handy function for this. In other words, you have nested your page in one of your menus so that the structure looks like this:

jQuery Tutorial: Change URLs in text into Links Automatically

By Joe Ybarra, Lead Developer

June 21

Tags: jquery

ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. -- If you need to change text URLs into HTML links automatically you can use jQuery to easily make this happen.

Use JQuery to turn text string into a anchor links automatically

First we need to use jquery to search through a chunk of text that is on our page.

Project Management Tools: Why the need?

By Matthew Castilleja, Project Manager

June 24

Tags: agile,project management tools,scrum

BOULDER, Colo. — What if we lived today without an organizer, an agenda or a smart phone — would it be possible?

What would we use? Better yet, how could we function?

Organization is key in any facet of life.

In the world of Web development — project management platforms are the difference between a successful project and a project with no end.

Web Designers: 18 more fonts provided by Google

By Joe Ybarra, Lead Developer

June 9

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ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. -- Web Designers always need more font options to make the typography on that page compliment the design. As developer for designers, we often find ourselves telling designers that they can not use their specialized font effectively cross browsers. Google Font Directory and API now open the door to 18 more font families. Take a look at the options at http://code.google.com/webfonts.

As developers, we simply include the stylesheet and assign the font family to your css element. Like this:

Flash Advertisements for Breckenridge Resort Chamber

By Joe Ybarra, Lead Developer

June 8

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ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. -- We are fortunate to be the Flash programmers for Breckenridge Resort Chamber's new Flash advertising campaign playing on Tripadvisor.com. Check out http://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g28927-Colorado-Vacations.html for one of the 300x250 spots. Its the square advertisement on the right side.

If you are looking for great Flash programmers to bring your rich media advertisements to life, contact Focal55 for Adobe Flash programming. We are experts in Actionscript 3.0 as well as good ol' AS 2.0.

Drupal 301 Redirects

By Joe Ybarra, Lead Developer

May 31

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ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. -- While working on the new website project, it became necessary to focus on maintaining content that was created in the legacy content management system. The system generated long alpha-numeric strings to retrieve content from the database. The path of the URL would be the same across a content type but the URL would also have a parameter string which represented the content in the database. Since there was no way to create a list of all the possible URLs it was critical to create a programmatic method to deal with this.