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How To Watch Netflix Outside The U.S.
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How to Upgrade Magento from 1.6.2 to 1.7 Using Magento Connect
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Mobile App Of The Week: Movies
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Interesting Current Natural Disaster and Emergency Website
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How To Use One JavaScript Function to Slide Any HTML Element Up and Down with JQuery
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How To Watch Netflix Outside The U.S.
First you’ll need a Netflix account. If you don’t have a Netflix account and want to sign up, but can’t because you’re overseas this is where Spotflux also comes in. Secondly you’ll need to install and run Spotflux. Your internet connection might drop for a minute after installing. Spotflux needs to makes some changes to [...]
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How to Upgrade Magento from 1.6.2 to 1.7 Using Magento Connect
In this tutorial I will explain how to upgrade the Magento ecommerce solution from 1.6 to 1.7 using Magento connect.
Mobile App of the Week
Mobile App Of The Week: Movies
Movies, otherwise known as Flixster, is the best app for finding movie times at your local theater, reviews, and trailers all in one place. It’s an extremely nice app to have while deciding which movie to watch on-the-go.
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Interesting Current Natural Disaster and Emergency Website
Here’s an interesting website that displays the current natural disasters and emergencies throughout the world.
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How To Use One JavaScript Function to Slide Any HTML Element Up and Down with JQuery
In this guide I’ll show you how to use one JavaScript function to slide any HTML element up and down with JQuery by simply sending the JavaScript function the id of an element.
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How To Fix Android Studio Not Opening
Posted May 19, 2013 by Nick Escobedo
Google recently released an Android Studio. Developers have been wanting this for sometime now. I was super excited to try it out and after installing it wouldn’t open. I did some searching and some people are having problems with it detecting the JDK installation path and the system environment path. It’s a real easy fix. [...]
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How To Watch Netflix Outside The U.S.
Posted March 1, 2013 by Nick Escobedo
First you’ll need a Netflix account. If you don’t have a Netflix account and want to sign up, but can’t because you’re overseas this is where Spotflux also comes in. Secondly you’ll need to install and run Spotflux. Your internet connection might drop for a minute after installing. Spotflux needs to makes some changes to [...]
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Xampp Send Email Issues
Posted January 22, 2013 by Nick Escobedo
After upgrading my xampp installation I had issues sending email. I wrote a small test PHP page and it was saying my emails were being sent, but I never received them. Obviously something was misconfigured. I thought I correctly edited my php.ini file, but it turns out all the tinkering I did with it may [...]
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Interesting Wind Map Website
Posted November 13, 2012 by Nick Escobedo
An interesting website displaying wind direction information was floating around the internet and I thought I’d share with everyone. It’s neat to visually see patterns the wind makes throughout the entire U.S. There isn’t too much to the website, but an awesome idea nonetheless. http://hint.fm/wind/
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SoapClient Error after enabling FedEx Shipping Method on Magento Ecommerce Solution
Posted November 12, 2012 by Nick Escobedo
In this tutorial I will explain how to fix the SoapClient error and why it happened. My server threw this error after enabling the FedEx shipping option in Magento running 1.7. I isolated the issue to the FedEx shipping option because every time I enabled FedEx the shopping cart. The next step was to check [...]
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How to Upgrade Magento from 1.6.2 to 1.7 Using Magento Connect
Posted October 15, 2012 by Nick Escobedo
In this tutorial I will explain how to upgrade the Magento ecommerce solution from 1.6 to 1.7 using Magento connect.
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Build Email Message Dynamically From Submitted Form
Posted August 8, 2012 by Nick Escobedo
I wrote some code to dynamically generate an email message based on the names of form elements being sent through post. In this post I’ll describe how it’s done. Sample HTML Here’s the php to make it happen. The foreach loop grabs the keys from the post array. An example key for this $_POST['Name'] would be [...]
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Understanding AJAX In WordPress Plugins
Posted July 30, 2012 by Nick Escobedo
For me it’s difficult to retain and grasp the programming concept, especially if it’s new, if I don’t understand the why behind the concept. I didn’t understand how to properly use AJAX in WordPress. I started searching google and found many article explaining how to use it. The problem was it didn’t go into enough [...]
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Mobile App Of The Week: Movies
Posted October 18, 2011 by Nick Escobedo
Movies, otherwise known as Flixster, is the best app for finding movie times at your local theater, reviews, and trailers all in one place. It’s an extremely nice app to have while deciding which movie to watch on-the-go.
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Interesting Current Natural Disaster and Emergency Website
Posted October 13, 2011 by Nick Escobedo
Here’s an interesting website that displays the current natural disasters and emergencies throughout the world.
