iOS 5 has now added functionality so the TinyMCE javascript tools will work in Safari. Editing rich text in applications has been very limited up to this point. We tested the latest TinyMCE.com demo on the iPad running iOS5 and it works. This opens a whole new realm of possibilities for developers that want to offer html editor functionality within their apps. We have a bunch of new applications in the pipe that will be leveraging this technology.
We’ve been using the SQLite Manger plugin for FireFox for a while now with no problems. The FireFox SQLite Manger is an awesome way to create, build, and edit sqlite databases for iPhone and iPad applications.
Current configuration:
MacBook Pro 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Mac OSX 10.6.8
FireFox 5.0.1
SQLite Manger Plugin 0.7.5
This week we had a problem opening sqlite files. We browsed to open sqlite databases through SQLite Manager and the files were grayed out.
We looked through the SQLite Manager project page and we could see other Mac users having the same problem (http://code.google.com/p/sqlite-manager/). So what changed?
Well, if you select the sqlite database files and look at the get info (Command i) we noticed that the file extensions were wrong. Changing the visible extension name was only changing the file name, not the file extension. We created the files with .sql not .sqlite so the extensions were wrong. Changing the visible file name to [filename].sqlite did not help.
The solution was to change the file name in the Get Info window Name and Extension field. When updating the extension correctly in the Get Info window you get an alert that confirms the correct extension is being selected.
Now we can once again open our sqlite database files with the FireFox SQLite Manger plugin.
There’s a long list of reserved words when using SQLite:
http://www.sqlite.org/lang_keywords.html
A good rule of thumb is to always use backticks (“) around database table and column names to avoid reserved keyword errors when running SQLite queries.
Below is some example Objective-C code from the iPhone SDK that shows SQLite queries being done through a wrapper class.
We upgraded a few client Joomla sites to version 1.5.32 and the Main Menu entries disappeared from the admin area. We looked through a bunch of web posts that detailed different ways of solving the problem. Some recommended replacing the list.php page buried deep in the site with an older version. Others recommended changing the entries in the menu and menu types database tables.
Here’s how we fixed it:
The menu and menu types database tables are linked through the Main Menu module. The code in version 1.5.32 seems to automatically add a hyphen (-) for any menu type names that have a space. Our main menu was called “Main Menu” and in the top of the Main Menu we could see it named “Menu-Name” before we made any changes.
In the database we opened the menu_types table (ours was named jos_menu_types) and updated the menutype column for the main menu from “Main Menu” to Main-Menu”.
We opened the Main Menu module … Extensions->Module Manager then selected the module to show the module settings. In the Module Parameters section we picked the Menu Name ”Main-Menu.”
In the database we opened the menu table (ours was named jos_menu) and replaced all values for “Menu Type” in the menutype column with “Menu-Type”.
Voila! Now the Main Menu appears correctly on the live site and the menu items are listed in the admin area.
LED SOURCE®
3101 Fairlane Farms Rd., Suite 4
Wellington, Florida 33414
Contact: Marcel Fairbairn
Phone: 866-900-4LED
Web site: www.LEDsource.com
For Immediate Release
June 1, 2011
Media Contact: Sanderson & Associates, Ltd.
Christine Picchietti
Phone: 312-829-4350
E-mail: christine@sandersonpr.com
LED SOURCE® LAUNCHES MOBILE APP TO HIGHLIGHT
SAVINGS FROM LED LIGHTING
(Wellington, Fla.)—A new lighting energy audit mobile application for iPhones and iPads has been launched by LED Source®, a national and international supplier of LED lighting. The Lampinator™ app sheds new light on the benefits and cost savings gained by switching to LED technology.
In the past, customers had to wait days for a sales person to create a lengthy, unsightly spreadsheet depicting their potential savings, but with the Lampinator™ they are presented with a polished, easy-to-understand report right on the spot. The report is a snapshot comparison that provides information on a location’s current lighting energy and maintenance costs, along with the savings an LED lighting retrofit could offer.
“We can quickly and easily do a preliminary energy audit with a prospective client and deliver a report that will clearly show them how much they’ll save on energy and maintenance costs if they were switch to LEDs,” said Marcel Fairbairn, president and CEO of LED Source®. “The customer can then walk into a board room meeting and present the savings to their boss without having to waste time deciphering what’s what. If they want a full energy audit, we can provide that too.”
LED Source® specializes in hands-on LED consultation through to delivery via its entertainment, architectural and retrofits LED divisions. At this time, the Lampinator™ is only available to LED Source® sales experts not the general public.
“We provide expertise in the design, selection and procurement of all things LED,” Fairbairn said. “A client can come to us with drawings or a simple idea and we can take it the rest of the way.”
LED lights are mercury and toxin-free, 300 percent more energy-efficient than compact fluorescent lighting (CFL) and about 1,000 percent more efficient than incandescent bulbs, while using up to 90 percent less energy to run, and lasting 50,000 to 100,000 hours. Fairbairn said, “LED is a unique ‘green product’ because over time, it is one of very few green solutions that don’t add to companies’ operating expenses.”
Increasing usage of LEDs is also being promoted through federal tax incentives and local utility rebates that can cover anywhere between 30 to 100 percent of the cost of LED lighting for retrofit projects and other programs.
LED Source® was launched in 2005, followed by the franchising program four years later. It gained the recognition of becoming North America’s first and only franchisor of LED lighting, leveraging its huge buying power to provide discount pricing and cost-saving retrofits to customers as it seeks to play a key role in a fast-growing marketplace with unlimited potential.
“Some people have no idea they need LED,” Fairbairn said. “Even if they want it, they have no idea where to get it. LED Source® is seeking to eliminate that problem.”
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About LED Source®
Founded in August 2005 by Marcel Fairbairn, a veteran of the automated lighting industry, and Gavin Cooper who relocated to the USA from a UK based LED Manufacturer, LED Source® is a national and international supplier of LED lighting that specializes in full-scale evaluations and retrofits through its Retrofit Division in addition to providing consultation all the way through to supply on new projects within their Architectural and Entertainment Divisions. Applications include commercial office space, schools, churches, theaters, art galleries, restaurants and nightclubs, special events, residential and landscape lighting and much more, including the world’s largest cruise ship and the stadium that played host to Super Bowl XLIII. The company recognized a fast-growing marketplace for LED lighting with boundless potential. As a result, LED Source® has consistently grown an average of 40 percent each year. Additionally, the company launched a franchise program in October 2009 and expects to have a network of 150 franchise offices throughout North America within three years. For more information, please visit www.LEDsource.com
SignalmanPublishing.com
Orlando area based web development company DiSalvo Technologies, LLC, announces the launch of the new Signalman Publishing WordPress Website at signalmanpublishing.com.
“We were looking for a way to easily add and edit books and page content on our website, ” says John McClure, founder of Signalman Publishing. For two years Signalman Publishing updated their basic website manually. The book and title content was all there but the site needed a modern template, a blog, and the administrative tools for a non-programmer to be able to easily update multiple parts of the site. The site also needed a way to publish news articles and press releases.
Wordpress Admin Tools
“WordPress offers blog software and top notch javascript admin tools for free,” says John DiSalvo, founder of DiSalvo Technologies, LLC. “Using PHP we link the WordPress blog and admin tools with the customer’s website,” added DiSalvo.
DiSalvo Technologies uses a 3 step process to design and build modern dynamic websites:
1. Pick out a Template. Websites like TemplateMonster.com and Themeforest.net provide modern website theme designs at a very inexpensive price. The themes include all the HTML, CSS, images, and blog elements needed to build a complete website. DiSalvo Technologies uses PHP along with a basic MVC structure to build dynamic websites. Page parts are separated into areas that include the header, footer, application top, content, and navigation. Parts are included on each page to avoid repetition of code. Parts are updated in one location and the changes take place across the whole site.
2. Install WordPress. WordPress.org brags that their install only takes 5 minutes. They’re not kidding. Simply create a new empty MySQL database on your webserver, download and unzip the WordPress files into your website blog directory, and run their quick install wizard.
Custom PHP Integration
3. Link WordPress to the Website. By including a WordPress header on website pages, it is easy to add widgets that display dynamic content. Dynamic widgets include recent news, tag cloud, categories and the archive. It’s also possible to write custom MySQL queries that search by specific categories in the WordPress database. Using PHP these custom queries allow for dynamic post and page content anywhere on the website. As a final touch, the CSS theme from the website is added to the WordPress site. WordPress makes it easy to duplicate the standard theme and modify all the standard pages so the CSS matches the rest of your site.
“Using this creative three step process we are able to provide inexpensive yet very complicated dynamic websites with premium administrative tools,” says DiSalvo. “Charging customers to build administrative tools is not always necessary when storing simple page and article content,” concluded DiSalvo.
About DiSalvo Technologies
DiSalvo Technologies, LLC is an Orlando area based information technology company specializing in iPhone/iPad App development, mobile website development, database development, website design, hosting, and a wide range of technical support.
Contact: John DiSalvo, 407-497-4075
About Signalman Publishing
A unit of Kissimmee, Florida-based Signalman Enterprises, LLC, Signalman Publishing is an electronic book publisher with a mission to bring classics of non-fiction literature to the Kindle reader through the Amazon.com portal.
Contact: Urmila McClure, 407-343-4853
Protecting Time® LLC, America’s preeminent resource for productivity improvement, announces the availability of its first iPhone application: The Distraction Timer.
Developed in partnership with Florida-based DiSalvo Technologies, the Distraction Timer is designed to help users track the amount of time wasted on daily distractions and interruptions. Manhattan-based Protecting Time® has already introduced an Interruption Analyzer and High-Payoff Time Calculator for the iPad.
“Distractions and interruptions can wreck the best-planned day,” says Protecting Time’s Jim Moore. “The average person loses more than three hours per day to random distractions – a ringing telephone, an e-mail chime, have-a-minute encounters with others, reading junk mail – and the Distraction Timer is a terrific, cost-effective way to track that wasted time and create awareness of the hours slipping away.”
Developer John DiSalvo notes that the Distraction Timer generates a pictographic representation of the day’s interruptions and distractions. “At the end of the day,” DiSalvo says, “you can see what distracted you most … and more importantly, see where the time went.”
Moore believes the $.99 application will help users better appreciate the value of their time. “Time is not an infinite resource,” Moore says, “although many people treat it that way. All we’ve done is make it possible for someone to track the time they waste on specific distractions. Focus is the key; we believe that it’s not how hard you work that counts, but what you get done.”
Protecting Time® markets innovative productivity-enhancement programs to professionals and staff in medical, chiropractic and dental practices, law offices, and to management teams and executives. The company is represented nationally by a network of authorized Licensees.
DiSalvo Technologies is a Florida software development company based in Orlando.
Download the app now:
http://itunes.apple.com/app/distraction-timer/id395130967?mt=8
Contact: http://www.protectingtime.com
Developed in partnership with Florida-based DiSalvo Technologies, the High Payoff Time Calculator is designed to help users spend more of their high-value time on high-payoff activities. Manhattan-based Protecting Time® has already introduced an Interruption Analyzer application, and intends to release a Distraction Timer for iPhone users later this summer.
“Many people confuse hard work with results achieved,” says Jim Moore, founder of Protecting Time®. The reality is that most of us spend very little time each day on the things that produce the greatest benefit to our enterprise. Our High Payoff Time Calculator allows users to see just how much time they’re spending on the things that really matter. When you focus on increasing your High Payoff time, you can often produce four or five times as much benefit to yourself and your organization.”
First made available in a Protecting Time® program called Protecting Professional Time, the High Payoff Time Calculator allows the user to create up to six High Payoff activities, then monitor the amount of time actually spent in those areas.
“If you work a ten-hour day,” Moore says, “you may be spending two hours or less on High Payoff items. If you correctly plan your day and manage your time according to achievement priorities, you can become up to 500% as effective as you already are.”
Developer John DiSalvo notes that the High Payoff Time Calculator allows the user to create a pictographic representation of a full week of work activity. “At the end of the week,” DiSalvo says, “you can see how every day was actually spent … and more importantly, see where the time went.”
Moore believes the $2.99 application will help users better appreciate the value of their time. “Time is not an infinite resource,” Moore says, “although many people treat it that way. All we’ve done is make it possible for someone to track the time spent to achieve specific results. We believe that it’s not how hard you work that counts, but what you get done.”
Protecting Time® markets innovative productivity-enhancement programs to professionals and staff in medical, chiropractic and dental practices, law offices, and to management teams and executives. The company is represented nationally by a network of authorized Licensees.
DiSalvo Technologies is a Florida software development company based in Orlando.
Download the app now:
http://itunes.apple.com/app/high-payoff-time-calculator/id383598431?mt=8
Contact: http://www.protectingtime.com
Jim Moore
Protecting Time LLC
347 640 2323
Protecting Time® LLC, the nation’s preeminent resource for productivity enhancement in small enterprise, announces the availability of the Interruption Analyzer.
Developed in partnership with DiSalvo Technologies, the Interruption Analyzer is designed to help users better control time spent on workplace interruptions.
Manhattan-based Protecting Time® and Florida-based DiSalvo Technologies intend to market several Protecting Time® iPad applications during the second half of 2010.
“Executives and staff members alike waste hours daily on interruptions,” says Protecting Time® founder Jim Moore. “All of us have the opportunity to stop interruptions before they happen. To do that, we have to know the source of the interruption – someone walking into your office, an e-mail chime, an unplanned telephone conversation. The Interruption Analyzer allows users to see at a glance how much time they’re losing to interruptions. Identifying the cause is 90% of the challenge of recouping all that lost time.”
First made available in a Protecting Time® program entitled Protecting Professional Time, the Interruption Analyzer allows the user to create interruption “timers” up to six staff members, and has built-in times for “have-a-minute” encounters, e-mail interruptions, unplanned telephone calls and repeating instructions.
“Users will be amazed at how much time they spend daily handling interruptions,” Moore says. “Every time you’re interrupted, you require from 45 seconds to 16 minutes to refocus on the task at hand. If you’re interrupted a dozen times a day, the sheer amount of time required to get back to what you were doing is staggering. ”
Developer John DiSalvo notes that the Interruption Analyzer keeps track of time spent on specific personnel- and task-oriented interruptions throughout the workday. “At the end of the day,” says John DiSalvo, “the user is presented with a tally of time spent for each interrupting individual or category, along with practical suggestions for better time management. At $2.99, this application represents a superb investment and will pay for itself several times over the first day it is used.”
Protecting Time® markets innovative productivity-enhancement programs for physician offices, dental practices, law firms, chiropractic staff, management teams and executives, and is represented by a national network of authorized Licensees.
DiSalvo Technologies is a software development company based in Orlando, Florida.
Download the app now:
http://itunes.apple.com/app/protecting-time/id373454208?mt=8
Contact: http://www.protectingtime.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
DiSalvo Technologies offers “Pure Words of Encouragement”
WINTER GARDEN, FL – May 22, 2010 – Orlando based software development company DiSalvo Technologies, LLC, in partnership with artist A.J. Alley, announced the release of its next iPhone application named “Pure Words of Encouragement”.
”I’m filled with an excitement I’ve never felt before about all the awesome cartoons that we will be able to share with users via this app,” said artist, A.J. Alley.
“Pure Words of Encouragement” is a simple application that displays a new original cartoon by artist A.J. Alley every day. Each cartoon includes a positive message that helps give you a boost in your day. Brighten your morning, day, or evening. Feel yourself lifted up and stimulated spiritually. See the world as a place of encouragement!
“We are so lucky to be able to partner with such talented people”, said software developer John DiSalvo. DiSalvo continues, “Looking through the cartoons provides such a positive springboard for any time of the day.”
Priced at $1.99, “Pure Words of Encouragement” for the iPhone is a wonderful lifestyle enhancing application. Enjoy a new cartoon image for 365 days (366 on a leap year). The same images repeat again each year. Miss a few days? Not a problem. The cartoon image browser allows you to see cartoons seven days back. Convenient previous, next, and today buttons allow you to navigate effortlessly between the cartoons. You also have the option to swipe your finger left and right on the screen to navigate to previous and next images. An internet connection is required to run the app.
Get the iPhone App Now:
http://itunes.apple.com/app/pure-words-of-encouragement/id373004578?mt=8
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DiSalvo Technologies, LLC is an Orlando area based information technology company specializing in iPhone/iPad App development, mobile website development, database development, website design, hosting, and a wide range of technical support.
A.J. Alley is an Orlando area artist. Since his childhood, Alley has been recognized for his artistic abilities. Alley’s story reaches back to when his Grandmother created an art gallery for him!
Contact:
John DiSalvo
DiSalvo Technologies, LLC
2303 Wintermere Pointe Dr.
Winter Garden, FL 34787
Cell: 407-497-4075
john.disalvo@disalvotech.com
http://www.disalvotech.com
“Providing top quality solutions with premium customer support!”
