Matter of Time (iDude Dreamy Remix) – Shannon Hurley
By Chaz Scholton - March 21st, 2010
A Free MP3 music file for download, a fan created video posted on YouTube. The inspiration, production and the truth revealed regarding the experimental stereo field cocktail mix poured into it. Yes, this remix was spiked and I’m coming clean about it.
I truly love music and it’s been a very big part of my life over the years, it’s a topic however that I’ve not written much about. But Mr. iDude who doesn’t love music? My love of music surpasses just listening to it, I enjoy playing it and in the last couple of years rediscovered my love for recording and production.
The meaning of iDude
By Chaz Scholton - May 22nd, 2009
Since I brought part of my idude.net website back online, I thought I’d Google up the word "iDude" to see what came up in the results. You know just for the hell of it. I noticed a link to the Urban Dictionary for the meaning of iDude and decided to check it out.
Data Integration with Jitterbit
By Chaz Scholton - May 16th, 2009
Jitterbit is an amazing Open Source data & application integration suite. A Free Community Edition is available for download and use.
Face it, manually importing and exporting Data between applications or databases in csv text files to keep data synchronized in rather old school. It’s simply a stone age method from the primitive dinosaur era. Technology has evolved and so have the tools. You may have heard the Buzz about Data Synchronization or Data Integration. It’s well worth your time and investment to explore it. Tools such as Jitterbit can save you literally days or weeks in data migration, import, export, integration or synchronization, including the scheduled automation of such tasks.
Migrate MS Access to SQL Server Express 2005/2008
By Chaz Scholton - May 16th, 2009
Considering that Microsoft has released Express Editions of MS SQL Server 2005 and 2008, I would hope that many people were encouraged to Migrate from using Access to MS SQL Express for their website or web application back end.
iHTML Merchant 2.x Tip: Using Banner ADs to promote Products.
By Chaz Scholton - May 13th, 2009Many people devote a lot of time, energy and resources at attracting visitors to their website, the last thing they want is for customers to quickly leave and loose prospective sales. For this very reason they have opted to not use the Banner AD management feature of the iHTML Merchant. However, the Banner AD system can be a powerful marketing tool in promoting products & services for sale on the website itself.
iHTML Merchant 2.x – Home page modifications to boost sales
By Chaz Scholton - May 13th, 2009This might sound rather too much like common sense, but an e-commerce website should be focused upon presenting products and services to customers in order to generating sales. If products & services are presented right from the start on the home page, this makes a big difference in sales.
Customers who bought also brought – iHTML Merchant 2.x Modification
By Chaz Scholton - May 13th, 2009Here’s a feature that I’ve added product detail pages on iHTML Merchant Enterprise websites for a number of clients. It’s the Classic "Customers who bought this item also bought" feature that appears on many eCommerce websites. It selects and displays the top selling products according previous sale order history of other products ordered.
The above example is using a one row HTML table layout placed. You can display products in a bulleted ordered list or however you like. I’m going to share with you the basics of how to code this feature. The rest is up to you where you position and place things. I generally place it after the related products code.
Icons for your iHTML Applications
By Chaz Scholton - May 11th, 2009So you’ve just designed a killer iHTML web application and you’re looking to add some professional looking touches to it. One of the most challenging task is finding good icons for your Graphical User Interfaces. I managed to recently stumbled upon a couple of great sources for Free icon sets and those at a reasonable price.