Validate Your Magento Module’s System Configuration
by David Joly | Wednesday, February 9th, 2011If you are in the business of making Magento extensions you have likely dabbled in Magento’s system.xml files. Let’s face it, if your extension is going to have any flexibility, it’s an absolute must to provide administrators with configuration options. And if you are providing configuration options, you know to validate Read More…
Building an Integrated Magento Blog: Part 1
by David Joly | Tuesday, December 14th, 2010If you’re reading this, chances are you are a relative newbie when it comes to developing with Magento. Before you continue, I must advise that this tutorial is for Magento developers that already have a basic idea of how Magento works. Read More…
Php 5.3.3 Upgrade, Mysql 5 Connection Problem Solved
by David Joly | Wednesday, September 1st, 2010Today I decided to upgrade PHP on my Windows 7 64-bit development machine. I downloaded PHP 5.3.3, configured it, made sure my environment variables were all good, installed pear, xdebug, and phpunit. Everything looked good, so I fired up Apache, and went back to work. BAM! Read More…
Meet the GEM Project
by David Joly | Thursday, July 22nd, 2010GEM is an open-source project currently in its formative stage. The main purpose behind the project is to provide an easy to use, extendable system to aid in the rapid development of custom web applications. Visit gem.zeletron.com Read More…
Zend Framework: Where Did the Model Go?
by David Joly | Thursday, July 22nd, 2010The Zend Framework is an excellent code base to work with, providing PHP developers with an ever-growing library of loosely-coupled components to aid in application development. Most notably, the Zend Framework provides developers with an MVC architecture, a pattern of modern software design which separates an application into clearly-defined layers: Model, View, Controller. Read More…
Youth Ministry Social Network Goes Beyond Facebook
by David Joly | Sunday, May 16th, 2010Gospel Contenders, an upstart youth ministry, has lofty goals. Finding Facebook® to be inadequate for group networking, Gospel Contenders is determined to fill the void.
The main requirements for the site, which differentiate it from Facebook, were to have an open network of youth groups and the network be closed to the public. Read on to see how Zeletron made this website a reality.
Rudy’s Mexican Grill, Unleashed and Online
by David Joly | Sunday, May 16th, 2010Zeletron delivers Rudy’s a modern marketing tool, bringing this small Mexican restaurant a professional web presence.
Rudy Garza, owner of the restaurant, is not one would call “computer savvy.” Lucky for him, Zeletron was there to take his business to the web. Learn how.
Managing Ajax Errors
by David Joly | Wednesday, May 5th, 2010Ajax is an incredibly powerful asset in the world of web development. Developers can create web applications that no longer need to load a new page for every request. This can make using the web application faster and more enjoyable. Read More…
Discovering jQuery’s data() function
by David Joly | Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010If you have programmed an Ajax web app, you know that manipulating the DOM from a callback function is easy. Manipulating data can be a little bit tricky though, because previously declared javascript variables are not available to the callback function. Read More…