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Add Manufacturers in carousel box in OpenCart

Muhammad Jawaid Shamshad — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:56:04 +0000

The default installation of OpenCart has the brands/manufacturers displayed in a carousel at the bottom of the home page. Updating the manufacturers in Admin->Catalog->Manufacturers will not affect that. If you want to change this you’ll need to update the manufacturers’ banner. To update the banner go to Admin->Setting->Layout->Banner. Here you can update the Manufacturer banner … Continue reading »

2011 in review

Muhammad Jawaid Shamshad — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:18:57 +0000

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 6,400 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 5 trips to carry that many people. Click here to … Continue reading »

Insert new rows as a result from other SQL query

Muhammad Jawaid Shamshad — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:11:54 +0000

There were numerous times where I needed to insert records in table as a result of another query, or copy data from one table to another. And every time I forgot the syntax of insert…select query. So I thought I should write it somewhere and blog is the best place for this A very basic … Continue reading »

Create new Box in osCommerce 2.31

Muhammad Jawaid Shamshad — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:04:14 +0000

osCommerce has changed the way to create your own infobox in v2.3x. Majority of the links on internet are for older versions and which does not work on v2.31. If you want to create your new info box in 2.3x which modules now then follow the below instructions. Copy catalog/includes/modules/boxes/bm_information.php and give it a new … Continue reading »

Displaying all categories and sub-categories in category box in osCommerce

Muhammad Jawaid Shamshad — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 19:12:41 +0000

osCommerce by default displayes only top level categories in category box. To display all categories and sub-categories hierarchy in category box follow these instructions. Steps: index.php – change on around line 37: if ($category_depth == 'nested') { To: if ($category_depth == 'nested' && isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['cPath'])) { includes/application_top.php – change around line 437: $cPath = ''; To: … Continue reading »

How to check if DLL is compiled as 32-bit or 64-bit?

Muhammad Jawaid Shamshad — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:47:24 +0000

Open visual studio command prompt Use this command: dumpbin /headers C:\path\name.dll at the very beginning you will find “FILE HEADER VALUES”, the first value will have a “(x86) ” for 32 bit and “(x64)” for 64 bit. Filed under: .Net, C#, C/C++, Microsoft, Technology, Windows Tagged: .Net, 32-bit, 64-bit, C#, compile, dll

Give a new look to your osCommerce store

Muhammad Jawaid Shamshad — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:25:03 +0000

That’s how the osCommerce theme looks by default in version 2.3.1 What we want to do is, to change the light blue of the buttons, infobox headings and breadcrumb line (thats the line just under the header). In other words, we’re going to change the color theme of the store. The whole process won’t take … Continue reading »

Connecting to Amazon Linux/UNIX EC2 Instances from Windows Using PuTTY

Muhammad Jawaid Shamshad — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 17:08:46 +0000

To connect to your Linux/UNIX instance from a Windows machine, use an SSH client. The following instructions explain how to use PuTTY, a free SSH client for Windows machines. Converting Your Private Key PuTTY does not natively support the private key format generated by Amazon EC2. Fortunately, PuTTY has a tool called PuTTYgen, which can … Continue reading »

Map Windows Live SkyDrive to access via Windows Explorer

Muhammad Jawaid Shamshad — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:16:36 +0000

Windows Live SkyDrive provides 25GB of space which you can use to backup your stuff. But using Browser is sometimes not desirable. But you can access your Windows Live SkyDrive storage in Windows Explorer. 1. Visit SkyDrive (http://www.skydrive.com) and login with your Live ID. 2. If you have not used SkyDrive before click on the … Continue reading »

How do I: check if DLL has been loaded

Muhammad Jawaid Shamshad — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:21:53 +0000

Few days back I developed an ISAPI filter and when I installed on IIS server and tried to test it was not running. To troubleshoot I thought how would I know that DLL has been loaded by the IIS server successfully and there is no error. If you used Windows Task Manager it does not … Continue reading »

Windows 8 installation error: HAL_INITIALIZATION_FAILED

Muhammad Jawaid Shamshad — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 07:46:21 +0000

I downloaded the Windows 8 Developer Preview from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/home/ and tried to install on Virtual PC, but got the following error. Your PC ran in to a problem that it couldn’t handle,and now it needs to restart. You can search for the error online: HAL_INITIALIZATION_FAILED I also tried VMWare Player, but to no avail. To fix … Continue reading »

What kind of IIS documentation is this from Microsoft?

Muhammad Jawaid Shamshad — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 02:47:37 +0000

Today I was searching online MSDN library for IIS ISAPI filter development, and you know what? I came across a MSDN page which was a bare template and didn’t have any content. Look at the snapshot taken on August 15, 2011 If page is still not updated then you can visit now: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee532515.aspx Filed under: … Continue reading »

jQuery Image SlideShow

Muhammad Jawaid Shamshad — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 15:03:21 +0000

So to get started you’re going to need jQuery and the Orbit plugin (make sure jQuery is attached first). <script src="js/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="js/jquery.orbit.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script> Now we can quickly hookup the CSS we need: <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/orbit.css"> And finally, let’s dig into the markup. <img src=”overflow.jpg” alt=”Overflow: Hidden No More” /> Now, just a couple notes before … Continue reading »

Xdebug in WebMatrix

Muhammad Jawaid Shamshad — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:58:41 +0000

Xdebug is a very popular PHP extension that helps with debugging and profiling of PHP scripts by providing a lot of valuable debug information. Microsoft WebMatrix is a development tool for building web applications. When WebMatrix is used to build or modify a PHP-based web application the debugging tasks can be greatly simplified if Xdebug extension is used. … Continue reading »

Windows Live Writer

Muhammad Jawaid Shamshad — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:29:25 +0000

I installed Windows Live Writer today to see how it works with my WordPress blog. So, this is a test post using Windows Live Writer. I’ll post a new blog entry if I find any useful feature of it. Well it has one good feature at least. To add a Bing map to your blog … Continue reading »

How to delete your Facebook account?

Muhammad Jawaid Shamshad — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:52:37 +0000

1) Click on the following link: http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account 2) Login with you UserID and password 3) Click “Submit” 4) You’ll be asked to confirm, Type in your Password, and then Solve the Captcha. Click Okay to continue. 5) Your Account will be deleted after 14 days. Acknowledge the message by clicking “OK”. Filed under: Technology, Web … Continue reading »

Using Response.Redirect in try…catch block

Muhammad Jawaid Shamshad — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:57:26 +0000

Use overload Response.Redirect(String url, bool endResponse) if using in try catch block. Continue reading »

Approach!

Muhammad Jawaid Shamshad — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 09:45:50 +0000

If you're not getting results, change your approach. The best way to get unstuck is to change your approach. You learn the most from trying something different. Sometimes this is uncomfotable, but that's what growth feels like. (MSDN Patterns & Practices Blog) Continue reading »

REST Web Services calls with C#

Muhammad Jawaid Shamshad — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:15:52 +0000

Its really easy to call REST based web services from C#.Net. There is an excellent article on Yahoo! Developer Network explaining this. I’m pasting its contents here for convenience. Make Yahoo! Web Service REST Calls With C# The .NET Framework provides classes for performing HTTP requests. This HOWTO describes how to perform both GET and POST … Continue reading »

XML with C#

Muhammad Jawaid Shamshad — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:50:38 +0000

The .NET Framework provides excellent support for XML. Combined with the databinding support of WinForms and ASP.NET applications you have an easy and powerful set of tools. ASP.NET 2.0 takes databinding another step further by providing the DataSource control which lets you declaratively provide data access to data-bound UI controls. Continue reading »