Installing Magento Commerce on Windows and IIS (part 1)

If you are like me that still love to stick around with IIS but want to try out Magento Commerce, I have good news. Magento Commerce works quite with some tweak. I have tried this approach on both IIS 6.0 and IIS 7.0 (each have a bit different steps).
First make sure you [...]

AspDotNetStorefront Ashland and Beyond

I just came back from the AspDotNetStorefront Developer Conference, along with Guidance CTO, Jon Provisor. This year’s conference, held in Las Vegas, was filled with announcements, including the launch of version 9 of AspDotNetStorefront, which they have called Ashland. AspDotNetStorefront executives unveiled the product map for Ashland at the conference, which proved this was a major release for the platform and a critical foundation for their Enterprise-level support. Guidance is proud to be AspDotNetStorefront’s first Enterprise-level partner.

Web Prediction – What are the next BIG things?

The Web 2.0 and Social Media development have been taking more and more spotlights in the last twelve months. Every discussions about web technologies have always been either the new Web 2.0 apps or integration with Social Media.

Here are some of the things that I predict will be BIG in the next 6-12 months: Facebook Connect, OpenID, HTML 5.0, Google Wave.

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The evolution of social web

I stumbled upon Jeremiah Owyang’s blog site and reading his opinion regarding the five eras of the Social Web. He described the social web evolving into 5 different overlapping eras:

1) Era of Social Relationships: People connect to others and share
2) Era of Social Functionality: Social networks become like operating system
3) Era of Social Colonization: Every experience can now be social
4) Era of Social Context: Personalized and accurate content
5) Era of Social Commerce: Communities define future products and services

Do you need OO programming for CF?

I think programmers outside ColdFusion community will be amused by the question as most (I didn’t say all, mainly I refer to Java and Microsoft-Camp developers) learned from day one that they have to architech their solution in OO way They must be laughing at us on this discussion.
Here’s the original URL [...]

Adding webcam interaction to jazz up the ecommerce

Papa John’s Pizza added an unorthodox but seems fun webcam interaction to their ecommerce site.
“The campaign’s plot is simple. Weird, but simple. Consumers go to a Papa John site and grab an icon of the “1972 Z28 Camaro that founder John Schnatter sold 25 years ago to open his first restaurant,” the chain [...]

Mobile phones: The fourth leg of your business

Using the Internet on a mobile phone was not widely adopted in the United States until the birth of the Apple iPhone. Before the iPhone, the mobile Internet experience was very cumbersome and difficult for common people. The screens were too small and sometimes it took a lot of effort to make the Internet work on your cell phone.

With a 20 million and growing user base and with 80% of them using the Internet every day, iPhones and other smart phones now offer retailers a whole new market segment that retailers can no longer ignore.

Smart Marketing :)

Young Chuck moved to Texas and bought a donkey from a farmer for $100.
The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey the next day. But, the next
day he drove up and said, “Sorry son, but I have some bad news, the
donkey died.”
Chuck replied, “Well, then just give me my money back.”
The farmer said, “Can’t do that. [...]

Embedding Fonts through CSS

Some of you may not know but now you can embed font file directly via CSS. Starting at Safari 3 and Firefox 3.1 beta both support direct linking to OpenType (.otf) font files. Presumably Opera will soon support this too. For IE user, it supports direct embedded open type file instead (.eot). [...]

Free CSS Drop-Down Menu Framework

Click on the link below to check out the Free CSS Drop-Down Menu Framework. It is cross-browser compatible and easily styled.
Features highlight:
* Modular, with themes. Not only HTML is separated from CSS, but even CSS definitions are categorized into structural and thematic types. Thus creating a new drop-down means [...]