Thai Market
The Thai Market is a massive business hub for the Thai Community. The community expands all the way from flea-markets to the grand temples. The brief for this site was to create a local community site that included blogs, user-driven forums, micro-shops, an online business directory as well as cater for the national flavours of [...]
4x4ZA / 4×4 Southern Africa comes alive
4x4za / 4×4 Southern Africa approached Orange Art with a brief to create a website that was “fun, exciting and shouted adventure”. The entire project took us just over 3 weeks to complete with a lot of research being done on our side to make sure we could achieve what we set out to do… [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Phezulu Office Supplies
Client: Phezulu Office Supplies Type: Stationery Supplies Webite: http://www.phezuluos.co.za Brief: Supply of all office and school stationery.
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 [...]
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. [...]
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