Archive for category Development
Graphic Designer - Sara C. Moe
Posted by Sine Post in Content Management Systems, Creative, Development, Website Design on June 29th, 2009
Doing a lot of work with a few up and coming graphic designers in the Twin Cities by fleshing out frameworks and giving them some specs so they can have input in the creation of their online portfolios.
First is Sara C. Moe - Graphic Designer. Built on a javascript jquery backbone, images can be swapped out easily just using a file structure that Sara was given a crash course in.
Enjoy! - Sara C. Moe
Thriving Ink
Posted by Sine Post in Content Management Systems, Creative, Development, Services, Web Hosting, Web Services and API Integration, Website Design, Website Development, eCommerce, projects on June 1st, 2009
By far our largest project, and one we are certainly very proud of!
Thriving Ink came to us at first just to do some tweeks and changes to their website. After some investigation, we pitched a full redesign rather than just patching up problems.
Built on the Drupal framework, Thriving Ink is a full viral, e-commerce website. We setup a backend that will allow the owners to add their own products and change slideshows as well as other content throughout the site.
Down the road we will be doing ongoing SEO tweeks and other changes to keep this site and business cutting edge and able to take anything that’s thrown at it!
Please take the site, hope you think it’s as great as we all do!
In-Line Consulting
Posted by Sine Post in Creative, News, Website Development, projects on March 23rd, 2009
Chalk up another finished site for Sine Interactive. In-Line Consulting has gone live! A totally static site with a PHP based contact form that sends a copy of the claim report back to the user. In-Line Consulting, LLC is a full-service loss estimation and construction consulting firm.
Debian Linux and OSX Leopard Screen Sharing
Posted by Ben in Development, Website Development on February 11th, 2009
As the developer toolbox grows, you’ll start to have “fun times” connecting to all the test machines. Of course there are times when you just want to use one keyboard and mouse. My desk would be a nasty place to hang out without SSH and VNC.
Imagine, if you will, a debian based gnome desktop. Nice, they have remote desktop built-in. Hey, lets connect to our nice OSX box which also has VNC client/server built-in. Oops. Doesn’t work.
Just make sure you setup your OSX Leopard preferences as follows in this screenshot:
On your Linux desktop you’ll need to install the apt package version of xtightvncviewer:
box$ sudo apt-get install xtightvncviewer
You’re good to go. Connect to your OSX box now.
box$ xtightvncviewer [ip address]
Erin’s Simple Solutions
Posted by Sine Post in Content Management Systems, Creative, Development, Services, Website Design, projects on January 30th, 2009
Erin’s Simple Solutions came to us via word of mouth from some friends from college who now live in Los Angeles. Her problem was simple… “almost all other personal organization coordinators websites are awful…”.
We were glad to help :) Erin’s new site provides a form on the right hand bar of each site, a new logo, color scheme, and blog where Erin will be posting her latest projects as they come along.
OSX Leopard SVN client outdated - Komodo
Posted by Sine Post in Development, Web Services and API Integration on January 15th, 2009
Recently in a middle of a debugging frenzy, I thought I would up the ante and use some more powerful tools. Of course, most of the time all you need is CLI and a nice text editor. Textmate, for life. So the said extra juice is provided from the latest offering from ActiveState. Komodo IDE is great cross-platform fun, so it seems like a great fit. Oh, did I mention their editor is free (and doesn’t suck)?
Meanwhile, I’m excited to fire up an Xdebug session. I drop my svn repo into the project, done. Wrong, it barfs up an error svn: This client is too old to work with working copy '.'; please get a newer Subversion client
Looks like there is a different format in the way that local working copies are stored for SVN 1.5, which Leopard does not have installed. OK, I’ll just grab the latest update from Apple. Wrong. CollabNet to the rescue for putting together a separate universal binary.
Go grab it: http://www.open.collab.net/downloads/community.
The new version is installed in /opt, so go ahead and add it to your path. Easier yet, just point Komodo IDE to the new bin directory.
SVN Binary Location
Now go forth and watch the glorious repo status icons populate, sweet!
Your PHP timezone matters
Posted by Sine Post in Content Management Systems, Development, Web Hosting on December 20th, 2008
So… you are working on the next killer web app, with an international touch. Giving your LAMP based applications a locality is quite important when considering the scope of your users. Since most modern apps will be accessed globally, give your users a valid timezone for a starting point. It isn’t a great practice to rely upon your server’s default configuration… especially when using shared hosting.
Lets change it! In your php.ini config, locate and uncomment your date.timezone line. On Debian based servers, you can check in (/etc/php5/apache2). Change your config to read something like:ndate.timezone=America/Chicago
Here is a full listing of all the available PHP timezones
Light Touch E-Commerce solution
One of the things we at Sine Interactive talk about over and over is, how can we provide a range of amazing quality products and services to a range of clients with different needs and resources.
Often after our clients see the work we provide them and the possibilities of their projects, they get it excited and hope to take it further and further down the road, so we want to provide everyone with the path to grow, starting small sometimes.
Our Light Touch E-commerce site is a simple, flexible separate page that can be dropped on any site, regardless of server capability (it’s 100% javascript, no PHP server conflicts here). It’s a snap for us to setup and skin to match the look of the rest of your site, providing an affordable e-commence solution to any site.
This does however lack some features that are prominent in our High Touch E-commerce solution such as; full credit card authorizations, login features for community building, content sensitive advertising, content management systems, etc.
The great news is that you can start with either our Low or High Touch solution and add features you want to Light Touch, or scale down features from the High Touch!
Take a look! Low Touch e-commerce | Wine Store
Bridge-Medical site & portal
Posted by Sine Post in Content Management Systems, Creative, Development, Flash Advertisments, HTML Mailers, News, Search Engine Optimization, Services, Updates, Website Design, Website Development, eCommerce, projects on September 30th, 2008
We created Bridge-Medical and Dealer Portal to provide information on the company, products and access to dealers to place their orders for their retail. We built both the easy to navigate and find information front end as well as a very specific back end built for Bridge-Medical product suppliers and customers.
We also do HTML Emailers for Bridge-Medical on a regular basis and other ongoing graphical and technical support for the company as it grows.