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Description The technical services team at Immense Networks is looking for another member. Successful candidates should enjoy a fast-paced, young-minded environment; have enthusiasm for technical elegance and should also know Microsoft Windows Server like the back of his/her hand. Accuracy and attention to detail are the two most important performance indicators you will be based [...]

Description The development team at Immense Networks is looking for another member. Successful candidates should enjoy a fast-paced, young-minded environment; have enthusiasm for technical elegance and should also know PHP. Below are required to apply Experience of object oriented programming / modular programming Understanding of MVC design patterns and frameworks (preferably Symfony) Experience with a [...]

After searching for a solution to show a random image from the sequence using jquery-cycle, I found this post with a simple (undocumented) solution. Just add the following line to your cycle function, replacing 4 with the total number of slides: startingSlide: Math.floor(Math.random()*4),

Download Per Page Sidebar Blocks plugin for WordPress This plugin is being submitted to the WordPress repository. For now, you can download it here: Download Per Page Sidebar Blocks v1.0 The plugin is now available in the WordPress repository: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/per-page-sidebar-blocks/ Background and goals of this plugin Part of offering WordPress as a CMS to my clients [...]

The problem After much research, I can only assume this special price issue not working properly is a bug in Magento. The only accepted solution was to visit the admin page System > Configuration and Reindex the Data for Product Prices. Fine, but I can’t tell my client to log into his admin every morning [...]

I recently came across Peacemaker, an app by Futuremark, that tests your internet browser for javascript performance. The image above shows my results after running it in Chrome, Firefox, and IE9. I should also note that I had 4 other tabs going in Chrome during the test, including Slacker Radio, but it didn’t seem to [...]

What software to use? No need to over-complicate things by learning some new fancy software. You can use Microsoft Word, Wordpad, Open Office, or any familiar text editor. I prefer Microsoft Word because it helps markup my content into something search engines and browsers can understand. If you don’t know HTML, this is the route [...]

For legality’s sake, let’s say the scammer was trying to impersonate Uppercase Two Bank. Overall appearance At first glance, the email seems legitimate enough. However, I notice inconsistencies in the design. You don’t have to be a graphic designer to get an overall blegh feeling  from this email. There’s at least 5 different types of fonts, [...]

Over the years of working with the Symfony PHP framework I have had moments of conflict about whether I made the right choice to use the Propel ORM. Both Propel and Doctrine have amazing features but ultimately I like the Propel style. Development on the project waxes and wanes but as of late it has [...]

Download My Company Menu plugin for WordPress This plugin is being submitted to the WordPress repository. For now, you can download it here: mycomp-menu-v1.0.zip The plugin is now available in the WordPress repository: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/my-company-menu/ Background and goals of this plugin This plugin is intended for theme developers who build WordPress websites for other businesses. WordPress [...]