HTMLgraphic Designs

Merchant Accounts vs. Stripe

Jason Gegere — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:08:25 +0000

You need to accept credit cards for your business. What do you do? Well, let me tell you a story about what I did. I run a small web design business that averages between $1500 – $2000 in recurring credit…

oAuth is pain with Mac OS X running XAMPP

Jason Gegere — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:44:36 +0000

I am running Mac OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopord) and would like to install the pecl module into Apache to not have a bunch of files all over my web directory. I am experimenting with this implementation.

This installation turned…

Setup local DNS for testing with mobile devices

Jason Gegere — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:26:14 +0000

Overview

As a developer I typically develop in many environments. Often times this is done locally and when the product is tested again and again and ready it is pushed to the staging server via one method or another. The problem…

RSS: What is it? How do I use it?

Muse Seymour — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 14:46:43 +0000

Real Simple Syndication or, RSS, as it is usually called, is a way to publish frequently updated works such as blog entries, news headlines, etc. An RSS document is typically referred to as a feed.

RSS feeds beneit publishers…

Why Gowalla has a Space in foursquare’s Court

Muse Seymour — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:42:29 +0000

I have had a number of people ask me why I use both Gowalla or foursquare. Most of these people don’t really understand what Gowalla has to offer or don’t even know what Gowalla is. Now,…

WordPress – This is somewhat embarassing, isn’t it?

Jason Gegere — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 04:36:48 +0000

WordPress is a great tool to help people create content. Sometimes their are issues and these are not fun. While setting up a new website that will manage hundreds of posts there was a uncommon issue we had darken our…

The Importance of foursquare for a Business

Muse Seymour — Thu, 19 May 2011 22:50:09 +0000

An often overlooked, yet simple to use and fun way to promote your business is through the use of foursquare. So first, of all what is foursquare? Well, foursquare is a mobile social media application that allows the over 10…

Class ‘OAuthSignatureMethod_HMAC_SHA1′ not found

Jason Gegere — Fri, 13 May 2011 19:55:50 +0000

If you’re getting an error to the tune of It’s because you’re trying to use the PEAR OAuth library + abraham’s library at the same time or some other oAuth library. I suggest finding your php.ini and commenting out what

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Creating Quick, Structured Forms with PHP and HTML_QuickForm

Jason Gegere — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 03:11:05 +0000

While working with many website designs over the years I found the most time consuming yet most important role of a website is the use of input from users. Its what makes the website interactive. One tool to help create…

Creating a SSH key – using rSync and SSH

Jason Gegere — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 22:38:31 +0000

I need to generate a private/public pair of keys to allow a ‘ssh’ connection without asking for a password. This may sound dangerous, and it is, but it is better than storing a user password (or key password) as clear…

What the heck are Hashtags?

Ann Mollica — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:31:34 +0000

Twitter user or not, you may have seen this number symbol(#) being placed in front of various subject titles and wondered what was going on. Well, it’s what’s known as a hashtag, which is like a label you put on…

Passing variables through get_header and get_footer

Jason Gegere — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 01:15:17 +0000

While working on a integration between a custom shopping cart solution and WordPress I found the get_header() and get_footer() to not correctly with variables and functions I needed to call.

I have two possible solutions:

First solution.

I can…

Using Sessions in WordPress

Jason Gegere — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 01:00:15 +0000

When needing to take a custom shopping cart and checkout solution and tie it into WordPress. We needed to have thousands of unique products available within the custom WordPress and have a customer’s name and cart total visible within the…

Remove Update Checks for a WordPress Plugin

Jason Gegere — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:45:13 +0000

You can add the following snippet to plugins' main file to prevent WordPress from checking for updates when loading the plugin list.

Comments within WordPress

Jason Gegere — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:47:15 +0000

Comments posted are your website are a great way to build loyalty from your customers and visitors. If you “approve” a post it will be displayed on your website. If you “do not approve” the comments it will remain on…