posts tagged: development

devbutton.com re-styled (and shoutouts to: HTML5 BoilerPlate, Font Awesome & PHPStorm)

devbutton.com re-styled (and shoutouts to: HTML5 BoilerPlate, Font Awesome & PHPStorm)

i did a quick re-style of my consulting site (http://devbutton.com) yesterday.

it’s just a simple “business card” site. funny how making something for yourself never seems to be a priority. one-day i’ll update it with a project case study or something relevant. fortunately 99% of my consulting work comes from referrals, so the site serves only …

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rendering templates in Sitefinity 3.7 for use by external applications

rendering templates in Sitefinity 3.7 for use by external applications

Imagine you have Telerik’s Sitefinity CMS powering the main portion of your website, but have a public 3rd party e-commerce system, an internal 3rd party CRM system interface, and yet another internal 3rd party HR employee portal. Wouldn’t it be nice if the graphics guy could update the company logo on all the sites, or …

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how-to: website icons for all browsers/devices (favicon, apple-touch-icon, etc.)

how-to: website icons for all browsers/devices (favicon, apple-touch-icon, etc.)

the favicon.ico

works in Firefox, IE, Safari, Chrome (and others). also works in Windows when dragging a shortcut to the desktop.

at the minimum create an 8-bit 16×16 .ico format icon file
name the file favicon.ico and put it in the root of your website
add this code between the <head> and </head> tags of your html:
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HowTo: install Sun/Oracle Java SDK on Ubuntu

if you Google “ubuntu java sdk install” you’ll see i’m not the only one that wasn’t sure the “right” way to get the official Sun/Oracle Java SDK onto Ubuntu. Ubuntu has it’s own “standard” JDK and that just confuses things if you’re after the Sun version.

you can of course download a file directly from Oracle. …

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