It sounds more like a rock band, but it’s actually a tool for rapid prototyping in html and css, and a fairly easy way for a css-vapid guy like me to give my websites a basic ‘good look’ in about 5 minutes and still have some control over the design. Plus it’s very flexible, they aim to make it so that you can show your website on multiple different devices.
Foundation is a complete framework, and includes both the javascript, the css files and some instructions to get you going. And if you drop a mail, they are quick to respond, even if it is a stupid question like I asked.
I’ve been playing around with their open-source foundation download code, and I must admit their examples ‘click’ for me. For example to add a button, you specify a css class like this class=”nice blue radius button” which is almost human english ! This way I can focus on my python skills and still produce some nice-looking pages !
Yes, really, I totally missed this one. I was sure that I had XCode, that I had installed it from the AppStore.
Several frustrating moments finally led (via StackOverflow!) to the realisation that XCode is only downloaded, and still needs to be installed afterwards. So just go to your application folder and find the “install xcode” app and double-click it.
Duh (slaps forehead) !
Oh well, onwards with the show of getting mysql-python to install on 10.7.
I know that most technical people can do this themselves, but in case you need something a bit more worked out and documented, here is a link to a great facebook-like button (+free analytics if you buy it at the same time) for facebook. 39 dollars if you use the coupon code he mentions in the video.
There’s another plugin out there that costs only 5 dollars, and it includes Google+ and Twitter, but I felt uneasy on buying it because it seemed unfinished + seems to be based on copying shareit code from the shareit website (where you have to agree to basically letting them piggyback your traffic for their purposes). No thank you.
Installation of the basic functionality is a piece of cake or as they state in my part of the country : 2 fingers up the nose easy. Upload the code you purchased and downloaded from the retailevolved website and upload it to your magento directory. Plus the documentation is included and is very clear on what you can do and any variations.
Done !
Plus you can go a step further, and get more functionality like the “send” button if you setup a facebook dev account and get an application id for your website.
I just read the announcement on macrumors.com on the upcoming iCloud beta that Apple will soon be launching.
Here is the pricing that Apple will set :
5 GB free, 10 additionnal GB is 20 dollars / euros a year.
Bought books, music, apps etc are not counted into this.
Compare that to Dropbox, where I currently have 2,5 GB free storage (thanks to jumping through all the hoops that they wanted me to, default you have less).
The next step up is 50GB for 9.99 $ a month, which works out to about 120 dollars, which is too much for me, both in size and price.
On iCloud I would pay for the same amount (actually more than 50GB, the original 5 GB is also there) 100 dollars yearly, so substantially less.
Maybe Apple will only offer iCloud to Apple Mac users, in which case Dropbox still has a large amount of windows users that it can keep, but I doubt it.
My guess is that Dropbox will either lower the prices or give more GB for the same buck, and perhaps even dramatically so in order to stay competitive.
Update : seems that my calculations are a bit off. A deeper look with more nuance about dropbox and the different pricing can be found here via macstories.net.
I’ve been looking at setting up a jewelry shop and Magento seems to fit the bill as an opensource solution for me.
I have to admit, that the learning curve is a bit steep, and installing it locally for a test drive is a hellish ordeal, where you need to configure your localhost file so that your computer has a dns name (at least for version 1.5.1 this was the case) with barely some explanation why this or that is not working.
Blogs aplenty with explications, each with slightly different errors and/or solutions, so while there is information, it’s not always clear if it is relevant.
Anyway, I got it up and running, hosted, and it works fine ! Oodles and oodles of config options, but there’s a logic in there (sometimes twisted logic, but still !)
Here are some sites / blog posts / magento modules I find useful:
As long as Apple doesn’t activate the NTFS driver that is supposed to be hidden in Snow Leopard, here is a quick way to format a drive (say, an external usb drive) to NTFS.
1/ Install the free MacFuse, which is a base for installing additional third party file systems on the mac
2/ Install the free open source driver NTFS-3G written by Tuxera (if you need this mucho times, you might want to think about buying the commercial driver which is more advanced, is only 25€ and comes with a lifelong upgrade). Otherwise the open-source driver works just fine.
3/ In the Mac’s Disk Utility, choose the drive and format it to NTFS-3G (an option which is only shown after installing the above).
4/ Done !
