Boonex’ Dolphin platform is widely used to support various communities. By itself it is fairly full-featured and can, for instance, be used to quickly build a private Facebook clone. It’s also pretty well programmed and can be extended in various ways. However, its development documentation is lacking. In this post I show how to integrate your module with the Spy module that shows user activity.
More …One question many small business owners struggle with is how much to spend on software. Should you get existing software off the shelf? Open Source or proprietary? Or should you invest in custom development? But how much does that cost and is it worth it?
More …2011 has been a transformative year for Streamhead. Due to some major work and planning behind the scenes, I haven’t been able to post as much as I would have liked. But all this hard work is about to pay off and you, my dear reader, will enjoy the fruits of it. In 2012, I plan to double down on in-depth articles, tutorials and case studies. All practical hands-on information. Read on for a review of 2011 and my goals for 2012.
More …My latest project is ExpensesSpreadsheet.NET. It is the simplest and easiest solution I could come up with to track and categorize expenses … in a spreadsheet. Let’s call it a niche web application, so it’s probably not for every one, but it should fit some extremely well. It runs on Heroku’s Node.js stack.
More …For SEO reasons it’s important to make sure that users only visit your site through a single domain name. Either www.example.com or example.com, but not both. In most cases a .htaccess change is the easiest fix. But not when you’re deploying to an environment that doesn’t have Apache, like Heroku. Here’s a quick way to get this functionality using Express on Node.JS
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