If you aren’t interesting in porting C\C++ code to VS2010, nor are you interested in Image Processing Servers; you probably want to stop reading right about ….. here. For the rest of you, this is a rough documentation of what I have done to get IIP to compile under Windows 7 Ultimate (x64) using Visual Studio 2010 (version 10.0.30319.1). There are my notes for getting it to compile, there are still a few issues, but it compiles and it runs under Apache on Windows. Even though this is a x64 OS, we are relentlessly targeting an x32 architecture in the build. Created an IIP_Port directory structure...
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I have had the opportunity over the past year to do some extensive work with Zend Framework as we have been porting our legacy code to said framework, and it has been a lot of fun. It turns out that I very much enjoy the MVC framework, and have had great fun in the implementation. Our primary goal has been supportability and maintainability in moving to the framework, but we aren’t opposed to performance and scalability gains as well. A key factor in the migration to the framework has been, and will continue to be, ensuring that we do not lose any of the scalability and performance that we currently...
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I recently had a conversation with the fellows I work with that went something like the one on the left. Perhaps, it looked almost, exactly, precisely like that. The simple fact is that I really do pray that I not have to support IE6. I woke up this morning, and as is typical, I had a number of questions posed to me by a number of different individuals, many of whom do not even know each other. Here’s a a quick sample of the questions asked this morning: - What is the difference between dirt and cement raised pigs, why do I care, and where do I buy them?- Since I'm not a MS guy, can u explain...
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This tool is awesome! Well, for me anyway!
As anyone who is familiar with the Hines57 sites will realize, we recently made a massive change to not only the look and feel, but also the underlying engine(s) and hosting. Part of this change was moving to Wordpress for this blog.
I enjoy writing, and blogging comes somewhat natural to me, but the niceties of MS Office have ruined me. That is, I like cut and paste, I want images in my content and I want them in a certain place, the whitespace needs to make me happy.
Typically, this is somewhat difficult to do given a web interface, a text box,...
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JQuery is a relatively powerful Javascript library that can be incorporated into webpages and used to extend them in some exciting and creative ways. Not only does it provide AJAX functionality out of the box, there are literally hundreds of ways to manipulate your page in the browser. A friend of mine (Joseph Szobody - Signature Tech Studio) has been encouraging me to learn to leverage this library and suggested this book as a method of diving in.
I found the book itself to be quite well written. It begins by making no assumptions regarding your knowledge of JQuery (although it does assume...
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