Bristol IT Mega Meet

Posted by Dave Thomson on 21st May 2012
On Saturday Gravitywell attended Bristol’s first IT MegaMeet, a conference that brought together 20 of Bristol’s user groups. Over 200 delegates attended mainly made up of web developers, programmers and students. Here is a selection of just some of the user groups involved...

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Uuummmm, this is a tasty ispum!

Posted by Dave Thomson on 14th May 2012

Are you bored with the same old latin lorum ipsum for placeholder text? Samuel L. Ipsum is one bad ...placeholder text generator. It generates classic Samuel L Jackson movie quotes and also has a safe for work mode, just don't get them mixed up!

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How to set up Ctags for Sublime Text Editor 2

Posted by Dave Thomson on 4th May 2012

"Use the Source, Luke"

Obi-Wan Kenobi

 

Ctags is an excellent plugin for Sublime Text Editor 2 for giving you Jedi like powers.  It enables you to jump through function calls to their definitions in the source code saving you a whole load of parsecs in file navigation.

Setting Ctags up is easy, here's how to in linux...

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Sublime Text Editor 2

Posted by Dave Thomson on 27th April 2012
Sublime Text Editor 2 is a favourite here at Gravitywell for developing Web Applications and here's why...

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The JQuery File Upload Plugin

Posted by Dave Thomson on 18th April 2012

The jQuery File Upload Plugin by Sebastian Tschan is an excellent plugin for asynchronously uploading files. Not only is it highly functional but it also looks great as It utilizes Twitter Bootstrap.

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How to import a csv file using php

Posted by Dave Thomson on 8th March 2012
CSV (comma separated values) files of data are a common medium for importing data into web applications.  For example you may wish to import product data from a Microsoft Excel or Google spreadsheet into your Magento database.   There is no way to do this currently with the Zend Framework, however we have written a handy PHP component to make the task easy.

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