Archive for the ‘Web Development’ Category

Running OpenSSL in Apache2.2.x on Windows

20, Jul 2010

You can Google this to find working tutorial of the above but I’ll try to make this short and direct to the point. You should have installed by now the Apache2.2.x HTTP Server with OpenSSL version for Windows on your server. If not, Download and install Apache2.2.x HTTP Server with OpenSSL version for Windows. Copy [...]

Loading mcrypt dynamically into PHP on Mac OS X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard

29, Mar 2010

By default, mcrypt is not loaded in PHP that comes in Snow Leopard fresh install. This tutorial will come handy when you don’t want to completely recompile PHP. First, you may need an administrator account like root to execute below. When enabling the root account, make sure you know what you’re doing. It’s not a [...]

Visualization tip for your website

9, Mar 2010

Data can be pretty overwhelming when you have tons of it. Visualization gives you quick insight into your data without overloading. A genius service from Jonathan Feinburg, Wordle allows you to enter any kind of textual information and get a visual representation of that text on the screen. This is very useful for getting an [...]

IE8 promises to be more accessible

27, Jan 2009

In their recent blog post, MSDN promised to make its next version more accessible. They have added full support for Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA). ARIA defines a way to make Web content and Web applications more accessible to people with disabilities. It especially helps with dynamic content and advanced user interface controls developed with [...]

Preparing a questionnaire for your web development

13, Nov 2008

In any application development, it is a good practice not to assume things. It’s invaluable to ask questions first before starting the development, so that objectives are set first before doing anything. This questionnaire, developed by a colleague in Philippine Web Accessibility Group (PWAG), Rey Mendoza, Jr. had helped me a lot in my web [...]

Making your payment gateway work with Magento

17, Oct 2008

Did you ever get it right looking into Magento‘s guide to adding your own payment module? Me? I had no luck. So I was thinking what if I just use the configuration for Authorize.net module anyway I can rename the module in the admin setup to be in my case Netbilling payment gateway? So I [...]

Magento: working on international shipping table rates

3, Oct 2008

I was contacted by my most valued client and asked me to check why their Magento powered e-commerce site’s table rate shipping is not working for all their country-specific stores. Even how many times I referred to the Magento User Guide for shipping methods, it didn’t help much. The store have actually a few supported [...]

Which PHP web framework best works for you?

26, Sep 2008

I’ve done my research. Most common you would stumble upon while doing your google are Cake, Symfony, Zend Framework and Drupal. They were first to release and so they got a wider community user base. But what are the features in considering a web framework? Personally, I go for ease of use, maintainability, scalability and [...]

Web framework eases the job

13, Nov 2007

Stable web frameworks are developer’s special tools to depend on when starting a web application. It eases the job, saves you time and resources. With web frameworks, you don’t have to worry much on maintainability and scalability as it’s already laid out for you. In PHP/MySQL web projects, I turn to Code Igniter framework especially [...]


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