Archive for the ‘Scripts’ Category

If you are using ASPDotNetStoreFront for your shopping cart, then you know how the popup image viewer looks and to me, it doesn't look all that great. After working with ASPDNSF for some time, I am finally starting to 'get it' and I thought I would share some of my secrets for working with this shopping cart. Full story

Fast, easy and very low bandwidth. If you need or ever thought you needed buoy weather on your cellphone, you need to check this out. I was envolved in the project and I think we made soething very useful for surfers, offshore fisherman and anyone who has an interest in ocean weather. Buoy Weather Conditions and Forecasts on Your Cell Phone Full story

When you're ready for an online shopping cart, there are a lot of questions you need to ask yourself. What cart will work best for my situation? What about Visa's PABP and PCI compliance? Credit card gateways, PHP, ASP, custom carts or out of the box; which one do I need? Should you host your shopping cart or do you want to have your cart hosted? Perpetual license or a one time fee? And that's just the beginning. In this series, I will try and broach some of the pros and cons of various shopping cart and various ecommerce solutions. We will begin with ZenCart. Zen Cart is a really nice online shopping cart. Out of the box, it works. It's basic, but it does work. There's a beauty to its simplicity, thus Zen. Out of the box, you get basic image handling, easy to use and create templates and built in credit card processing gateways. You also have the ability to add a lot of features that would cost thousands extra for most pay shopping carts, but with Zen Cart, most every extension and contribution that add functionality to your cart are free. $0 is a very attractive price for a piece of such powerful software, but there's a cost. ZenCart management is not for the faint of heart. ZenCart requires a fairly high level of knowledge to really have a good shopping cart. Full story

Here's a quick little script for predicting tides. Be sure and change the high tide time on line 2. You may have to play around with the numbers a little to get it working on your site. Please, don't ever use this script for navigational purposes. Seriously, this is a rough estimate and not for marine navigation purposes. Tides depend on many factors, sun, moon, wind and some other things I don't understand. But I do understand tides differ by a set amount of time in most places - usually. I developed this code to work for Folly Beach, but it will work in locations with a 12:50 time difference between high tides. As a general rule, this works fairly well, but you will still need to update the tides occasionally or during time changes. Full story