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.htaccess: Options not allowed here

Tim Selaty — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:04:38 +0000

If you’re getting the above error message, check to make sure that your httpd.conf file has AllowOverride All on. This basically tells Apache to check the HTACCESS file for rules, otherwise, it may ignore it or throw errors. Additionally, if [...]

Backstretch, the jQuery dynamically-resized background image plugin

Tim Selaty — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:04:50 +0000

Most developers know that you can take a single image and making sure it scales to 100% width and 100% height of the window size. But things get complicated once that image needs to be a CSS background image, [...]

Mac OS X Lion – Setting up Django, pip, virtualenv, and homebrew

Tim Selaty — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:18:26 +0000

We over here at TLS Web Solutions snagged ourselves yet another productive and time-saving piece of machinery — a MacBook Pro. While it ran smooth, we wanted to setup a Django dev enviroment pretty quickly and had a couple issues [...]

CSS3 Hyphens / Word Wrapping

Tim Selaty — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 07:02:09 +0000

Kenneth Auchenberg solved a great CSS3 mystery for me — using hyphens to automatically break words to a new line. “When you have an element with a dynamic width word-wrap: break-word, isn’t having any effect. Today’s browsers don’t use the [...]

Raven Tools – SEO and Social Media Tool for Professionals

Tim Selaty — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:52:59 +0000

Reasons why we think Raven Tools rock: 1. Their interface is smooth and easy on the eyes. 2. You can view and track your Search Engine Optimization efforts, Social Media insights, and Google Adwords stats all in one place. 3. [...]

Stunning Data Visualization Tool (You’ll forget what PowerPoint is) – Visual.ly

Tim Selaty — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:15:29 +0000

Visual.ly is a free data visualization tool which helps create quick, easy, and most importantly fun ways to chart all kinds of data. Remember those sleek data presentations you see all the time? Visual.ly will help you build one in [...]

Gist > Pastebin

Tim Selaty — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:59:37 +0000

I’m a fan of the free paste & go service Pastebin.com has offered while pushing out code snippets and error log entries to other developers. The only problem is… it’s not alone. If you’re not using it already, GitHub has [...]

Are you ready to develop a Mobile App?

Tim Selaty — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:42:45 +0000

Developing a mobile site is one thing, but developing a mobile application which targets specific business needs is another. David Tucker over at Mashable wrote a great article for ten simple things you should note and plan before sailing the [...]

OK-Studios, wicked parallax and 3-D design

Tim Selaty — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:33:36 +0000

I could’ve sworn I was watching an animated comic as I slowly scrolled down the page on OK-Studio’s beautifully designed and architected website. They utilize modern JavaScript libraries to give a 3-D illusion to their one-page site. Clicking any one [...]

Kodingen – Socially Program In A Cloud

Tim Selaty — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:08:51 +0000

Managing developers, developer files, servers, version controls, databases, and just overall the deployment process (zip, unzip, upload to FTP, restart server, export database & import dev database, change URL’s, etc) can be a humongous pain. Kodigen has developed a heavy-duty [...]