Proud moment for Orange Art as we launch Aluna Ice
As far as portfolios go, we are certainly very proud of what we have achieved with AlunaIce. More than just a Shopping Cart and Ecommerce solution; the site features a very impressive “Ring Configurator”, that enables clients to customise their own rings with diamonds and various other exact specifications; tailoring their very own master-piece. The [...]
Mar 28th
2011
By admin
Posted in Latest Blog
Comments Comments Off
Experiments with Varnish / NGINX / Apache on Centos
Ok so here’s the scenario: We currently have a stock standard LAMP stack running all of our PHP applications – Forum / Blog / Wiki and a few other bits and pieces. All of them are connecting to a separate dB Server sitting on an internal VM with a hand full of default / out-the-box [...]
Feb 17th
2011
By admin
Posted in Latest Blog
Comments Comments Off
Flashplayer for Chrome on FC14 x64
Ok so apparently the folks at Adobe still think there’s no need to create a direct / auto plugin for us 64 bit users. I mean really, why would they…? Anyway; it’s fairly straightforward to setup yourself, so if you’re struggling; here’s how: Grab the latest version of flashplayer from Adobe: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/?no_redirect Once you’ve got [...]
Aug 7th
2010
By admin
Posted in Latest Blog
Comments Comments Off
Phezulu Office Supplies
Client: Phezulu Office Supplies Type: Stationery Supplies Webite: http://www.phezuluos.co.za Brief: Supply of all office and school stationery.
Apr 7th
2010
By admin
Posted in Latest Blog
Comments Comments Off
Installing / Upgrading Thunderbird on Linux
I’ve been trying to figure out how to gracefully upgrade my Thunderbird 2x to the new 3.x without having to migrate profiles and waste a lot of time. After reading up a few forum posts and release docs I figured out it was much easier than I thought it would be! Just grab a backup [...]
Apr 3rd
2010
By admin
Posted in Latest Blog
Comments Comments Off
MySQL – PHP Pagination
A quick HOWTO: Split long MySQL results into seperate pages. Note that this tutorial assumes you have at least basic knowledge in both PHP and MySQL. First of all, let’s see how it will look: < (R) Previous Page | Next Page (R) > Where (R) is the number of results left of to come. [...]
Apr 2nd
2010
By admin
Posted in PHP Quickies
Comments Comments Off
A quick introduction to OoP (yes, again)
One of the most common programming concepts in the world is OOP, which stands for Object-Oriented Programming. Using this technique, programmers manipulate objects, which are made of functions and variables, instead of manipulating the functions and variables themselves. Let’s say that you develop an e-commerce web-site. You could use an object to manage a shopping [...]
Happy Easter!
Happy Good Friday to you all! Hope the Easter Bunny spoils you and you have a super long weekend with your loved ones! The Orange Art Team
World Cup Special
Hi Everyone! April has started already – only 2 months to go to the World Cup! Hope you are all prepared, got your team shirts and schedules planned! While you are enjoying the World Cup, why not let a Website promote your business? We are running a new special : NO Design Fees will be [...]
Nov 5th
2009
By admin
Posted in Tips & Tricks
Comments Comments Off
Emogrifier… you absolute life saver <3
It’s not very often that I “praise” another website for services or products, but I came across this beauty of a site and have used it constantly over the last 2 weeks for newsletter campaigns :: http://www.pelagodesign.com/sidecar/emogrifier/ If you need your html / xhtml converted into an “Outlook” friendly format then you absolutely have to [...]