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I'm a technologist at heart, assisting companies best utilize the Internet to market themselves and sell their products and services online. This includes organizations as large as Google and as small as one or two individuals.
At Over The Top and Exhibit A Communications, I've programmed solutions for Google as well as at least one other company that was later acquired by Google.
I've been CTO of an Internet SaaS company and spent my time pretty evenly between guiding the future technical strategy of the company, architecting software solutions for my dev teams, designing and running a data center to service our clients world-wide as well as being a technical evangalist/sales engineer to our media clients large and small.
I've also been Chief Photographer of the Daily Sun/Post newspaper back when it was a 5-day a week daily newspaper.
I also spent a great many years as a beach lifeguard for the City of San Clemente as well as Jr. Lifeguard instructor and then as it's program coordinator.
Bragging rights
Private Pilot with Instrument rating and proud husband of soon to be 25 years (and counting).
A good friend of mine, Marty over at LAOutdoorFurniture.com recently posted about how some of the their furniture provides a highlight in Lisa Ling’s newly redone Santa Monica home: http://laoutdoorfurniture.com/la-outdoor-furniture-customer-lisa-ling/
Check out the video, especially if you are intested in some inexpensive, designer patio furniture
Say you have a client who’s come to you to build them a new website; great, congratulations. You do some research and find out that the links on their old site all pointed at the raw domain (no www preceeding it). You’ve also decided that based on their needs, the new site should be set up on the WordPress platform.
Easy peasy, right? Well not so fast there… Let’s say you built the new site, took it live and everyone on the Internet can see the new site BUT your client. More accurately, your client can’t see the site when they are at work but can from any other location. Hmmm…
If you’ve ever worked in the codebehinds of the latest versions of AspDotNetStorefront, you’ve probably run into this problem before. Or perhaps you’re smarter than me and already knew this in which case, this isn’t for you. 😉
With the new Multi-Store feature in v9.x of AspDotNetStorefront, there are instances where you need to access the StoreId for one reason or another. The problem is, none of the available classes (this, order, page, etc) seemed to be exposing this value. You could look at this.SkinId but this is not an optimum solution since you can add multiple stores to the same Skin.
*UPDATE*: 9/25/2019 to reflect changes in Google’s signup process
Note that the below directions still work but you also now get here easily from a Sign In link on any Google page. Just click on “Sign In” link and on the dialog box, click “Create account”
This will take you to the screens mentioned below:
*UPDATED*: 4/29/2013 to reflect changes in Google’s signup process
Want to join Google+? Have been invited to to join a Google Hangout or edit a Google doc or spreadsheet? What do you do if you don’t already have a Google Account to access these services? If you are one of the lucky few who use an email account that is serviced by Google Apps, then you are good to go as most Google services now support Google Apps accounts. But what do you do if your email address is @hotmail.com or @yahoo.com? Well never fear, we can show you how to get a Google Account without creating a Gmail account (address).
By goint to https://accounts.google.com/newaccount (as shown below) you’ll be able to not only sign up for a new Google Account, but they make it easier than ever to do so using your existing email address.
Can’t be there myself, so figured I’d post this up for you and for me to catch up on what’s new at Google I/O. Click through to the full article to view the keynote tomorrow morning…
Yes, you heard that right. The much talked about v9.3 of AspDotNetStorefront has been released today. However, is it right for you?
In a word, Yes! This release incorporates not only a slew of code adjustments (aka bug fixes) that will benefit existing site owners but also two big new features as well as a slew of new mini-features/configuration options.
I was doing some research recently on generating screenshots of web pages using an ASP.NET page and found a link to a post on DotNetClassic.com that appears to disappeared into the ether…
Thanks to the magic of the WayBackMachine, this code lives on. I haven’t tried it yet but present it for your edification and amusement:
v1.0.1.1 of the InfusionSoftDotNet library has been released to support functions and changes related to the Spring 2012 release of InfusionSoft API as well as the latest CookComputing dll (v2.5.0) to handle the XMLRPC communications.
You can download the source code, pre-compiled binaries and or the History.txt file of all changes from http://infusionsoftdotnet.codeplex.com.
Using a class provided by Chris on stackoverlow, I finally found a quick and dirty way to download data to a CSV file locally.
Have you run into this problem? In Quickbooks Point of Sale v10 (or in various versions of Quickbook proper it appears) you might change over to the Shipping Manager and when you try and print you get the following error:
Printer Not found: ::{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}\::{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}\HP Laser
This appears to happen under Windows and may happen under Vista as well. The printers are properly configured in QBPOS (or in QB) but for some reason the Shipping Manager isn’t properly enumerating the name of the printer from QBPOS (or QB) configuration.
Can’t be there myself, so figured I’d post this up for you and for me to catch up on what’s new at Google I/O. Click through to the full article to view the keynote tomorrow morning…