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• Form Validation with Jquery

  on November 17th

  This blog will show you how to use jQuery to validate your form by looping over the form elements.

  

• Email Customers Automatically in PDG Commerce using MySQL Triggers & Bubblegum

  on October 14th

  Our latest blog will show you how to generate automated emails to notify shop customers when their category has been upgraded by an administrator in PDG Commerce.

  

• CMS: Can't Manage Site?

  on March 26th

  This months blog entry discusses how web developers should better educate their clients on how to use the CMS's that are sold to them for the benefit of both the client and developer.

  

• Start Screen Sharing Remotely [OS X]

  on February 23rd

  Have you ever had the need to access a Mac that's not in close proximity. Perhaps it's running headless without a display but screen sharing was never enabled. What do you do?! I'll show you...

  

• Compiling QSvn on OS X Leopard

  on January 12th

  QSvn is an excellent GUI Subversion client that runs on Linux, UNIX, Mac OS X, and Windows. Unlike a lot of other free options, QSvn is a real client and not a GUI wrapper for the command line. However, getting it to compile in Mac OS X 10.5.8 was a bit problematic. I thought I'd post the process in case anyone else needs assistance.

  

• Overflow Property and Floating Elements

  on December 8th

  From time to time I receive questions in regards to issues with building table-less layouts. I'll try and touch on a few of these over the next few months in the hopes that it can enlighten someone plagued with a similar issue. This topic covers how to deal with floating child elements within a parent div.

  

• The Challenges of a Product Rollout

  on October 27th

  In our field, it's all to easy to over simplify in words any given web project. For our latest product, WEBPAD (a Content Management System/Online Business Builder), it was no different. Simply build a website that highlights the features of our latest offering and provide visitors with a chance to test drive it. Sounds easy enough right?