My Monkey Do

There are a ton of video player that use HTML5 with flash fallback.  A few years ago I found one named JW Player.  This was a great player that was fully featured.  Keyword being “was”.  I was developing a website that would be using this player, but for the time being I used the free version [...]

Lemonstand is an eCommerce solution that lets you try before you buy.  It is very simple to use and virtually no learning curve to develop for.  It uses PHP and mySQL.  Check it out for yourself here. Below are just a bunch of notes I jotted down while using and developing for Lemonstand. Docs are [...]

On install I got an error that said the php_pdo_mysql extension is required.  I added the extension to php.ini, restarted apache, and tried again.   I got an error similar to this: Exception printing is disabled by default for security reasons. Error log record number: 600807966   I looked around the web and found that [...]

Every version of IE requires its own special little hack to make it look how it’s supposed to.  Developers can go crazy trying to fix an issue for a version of IE that only their client has.  To make things worse, you cannot install more than one version of IE on Windows.  That’s just Microsoft [...]

I’m in the hunt for a e-commerce open source framework that is easy to use and easy to extend.  Wordpress is the perfect combination of easy to use and easy to extend.  It also has great community support.  Before WordPress I used ExponentCMS.  While that is a good CMS, it is nowhere near the level [...]

To add a hyperlink to a google spreadsheet enter the following into a cell: =HYPERLINK(“www.mymonkeydo.com”, “My Monkey Do”) Do not put in the “http://” part otherwise it may not work. See the Example Spreadsheet.      

Some great tools for optimizing images so that it downloads faster: http://www.webdesignbooth.com/12-really-useful-image-optimization-tools-for-web-designers/

I recently was asked the age old question “what CMS is the best?”.  So I asked back “What will the CMS be used for?”, and of course that wasn’t specifically known.  This post is not a complete post.  It is here to jot down findings and notes about CMS’s.  Wordpress and Exponent CMS are the [...]