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:

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.

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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.

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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.

Cloud Server Tutorial: Sending outgoing emails for your contact form

By Joe Ybarra, Lead Developer

May 29

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ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. -- This tutorial assumes that you have a server hosted in the Cloud and runing Ubuntu Hardy distro with Apache. This turorial also assumes that you do not need your server to receive emails. If you need to have your website's contact form send out an email and you are hosted in the cloud you need to install Postfix on your server. and make some configuration changes to your server to play nice with ISP's mail servers. 

After you login to your server via SSH, the first thing to look at is the Cloud Server hostname.

Zen Cart Custom Fields and other Zen Cart Customizations

By Joe Ybarra, Lead Developer

May 27

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ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. -- If you are looking to customize your new Zen Cart project or need to update your current Zen Cart shopping cart, we can help. Here are some things we can help you do: