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Night Shuttle Family Portrait

In case some of you have wondered, I haven’t been talking much about photography lately in my blog. Even though I’ve been heads down in programming lately, I’ve still been trying to keep up to date with my photo-instructional surfing. With great blogs like Strobist combined with Google Reader, this is fairly easy. The Strobist …

Using Google Spreadsheets to Collect Form Data

Google Spreadsheets recently offered the ability to create a form that will collect customer information into the spreadsheet. This is great for people that don’t have access to storing data in a traditional database (which is our preferred solution). They offer you the code to either link to for this form, email the code (great …

Google Voice for Android Supports Non-Gmail Accounts!

The title says it all! Ever since I got my Google Voice account, I’ve not been able to use it with my Google ION phone (the latest developer platform phone) because I set up my phone using my Google Apps account rather than a Gmail account. This presented a problem not only with Google Voice …

Skin Templates in AspDotNetStorefront

I’m not sure if you knew this or not, but AspDotNetStorefront ML and ML/Express both use different default templates in the skin directory. Recently, a new file has begun showing up in the shipping SKIN_1 folder called expressTemplate.ascx.  I had kind of assumed that this file was a bare bones template, much like the standard …

Using a Google Spreadsheet as a Database

I recently had the opportunity to attempt to create a simple little CMS for a single page on a website hosted on a Linux box somewhere out there in the cloud. We wanted to offer the client (who had no experience or patience to work in HTML) the ability to update the content on this …

Running Ecommerce Store from Google Spreadsheet

Google has recently released announced a Google Store Gadget that relies on Google Spreadsheets as the database in an attempt to make it easier for people to set up electronic shop on the world wide web with little effort and no cost (assuming you have SOME sort of presence on the ‘Net).  While this is …

Best. Comment. Ever. ? You Bet

TechCrunch spun a comment to a posting about AT&T… I mean Apple pulling Google Voice applications off the iPhone store. Whoever ‘JÂ’ is an extremely whitty guy. Come to think of it, this speech could be spun in any number of different ways’… This is, without a doubt, the best comment ever on TechCrunch. Left …

Site Design updated...

We’ve updated the ExhibitA.com website design to more closely match the Arthemia skin we’ve been running on the blog lately. Please use the comments below to let us know what you think!

SEO SPAM and Blogs

Ok, forgive me but it is time for a little rant here… SEO SPAM (aka comment spam) is getting out of hand these days. Previously, it was only the SEO contest people that I had to worry about but now I’m seeing a dozen or more requests per day (it is growing rapidly) to moderate …