http://www.arzion.com/ en Arzion 28 Oct 2009 15:30:41 GMT http://www.arzion.com/internet-business/posts/Popups-with-FancyBox Hello... today I'm gonna teach you how to show a popup with FancyBox. FancyBox is a tool to show images, html content and multimedia content in a window LightBox like It was developed using the jQuery library. Let's go to the example! First of all, we should add to the page that is going to contain our b

]]> Hello... today I'm gonna teach you how to show a popup with FancyBox. FancyBox is a tool to show images, html content and multimedia content in a window LightBox like It was developed using the jQuery library. Let's go to the example! First of all, we should add to the page that is going to contain our b

]]> 27 Oct 2009 14:52:26 GMT http://www.arzion.com/internet-business/posts/Booking-Calendar---Online-booking-plugin-for-Wordpress Browsing the web, I found this plugin to make online bookings. It's a plugin that allow us to add a form into our blog to make the reservations. Your site visitors can make booking for one or several days of one or several properties (appartments, hotel rooms, cars, etc) and make online payment. Its can be interesting for hotel reservation service, rental service or a

]]> Browsing the web, I found this plugin to make online bookings. It's a plugin that allow us to add a form into our blog to make the reservations. Your site visitors can make booking for one or several days of one or several properties (appartments, hotel rooms, cars, etc) and make online payment. Its can be interesting for hotel reservation service, rental service or a

]]> 8 Jul 2009 14:14:40 GMT http://www.arzion.com/internet-business/posts/Export-a-GridView-to-Word-format-with-ASPnet Following our series of Export to... this time is the turn of Word format. (.doc). Still being really simple. We put the next code on the OnClick event of the button, and that's all!. Response.Clear(); Response.Buffer = true; Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=GridViewExport.doc"); Respons

]]> Following our series of Export to... this time is the turn of Word format. (.doc). Still being really simple. We put the next code on the OnClick event of the button, and that's all!. Response.Clear(); Response.Buffer = true; Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=GridViewExport.doc"); Respons

]]> 13 Jun 2009 22:11:54 GMT http://www.arzion.com/internet-business/posts/Importance-of-Sitemaps  The sitemaps importance is today out of discussion, it's been more than 2 years since yahoo, microsoft and google jointly announced the sitemap submition in robots.txt, according to a study presented in the WWW 09 in madrid by Uri Schonfeld, sitemap files submission has almost tripled over the last year

]]>  The sitemaps importance is today out of discussion, it's been more than 2 years since yahoo, microsoft and google jointly announced the sitemap submition in robots.txt, according to a study presented in the WWW 09 in madrid by Uri Schonfeld, sitemap files submission has almost tripled over the last year

]]> 1 Jun 2009 16:09:17 GMT http://www.arzion.com/internet-business/posts/Export-a-GridView-to-Excel-format-with-ASPnet With the next code you will be able to export a GridView to Excel format (xls), it's very simple: protected void btnExportExcel_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { Response.Clear(); Response.Buffer = true; Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=GridViewExport.xls"); Response.Charset = ""; Respon

]]> With the next code you will be able to export a GridView to Excel format (xls), it's very simple: protected void btnExportExcel_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { Response.Clear(); Response.Buffer = true; Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=GridViewExport.xls"); Response.Charset = ""; Respon

]]> 27 May 2009 15:08:58 GMT http://www.arzion.com/internet-business/posts/Export-a-GridView-to-CSV-with-ASPnet This example is very easy to implement. We only need to put the next code in the desired button: protected void btnExportCSV_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { Response.Clear(); Response.Buffer = true; Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=GridViewExport.csv"); Response.Charset = ""; Resp

]]> This example is very easy to implement. We only need to put the next code in the desired button: protected void btnExportCSV_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { Response.Clear(); Response.Buffer = true; Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=GridViewExport.csv"); Response.Charset = ""; Resp

]]> 17 Apr 2009 01:29:31 GMT http://www.arzion.com/internet-business/posts/Automatic-documentation-for-PHP-part-2 This time, we are going to talk about the standard PHPDoc. A PHPDoc documentation is a set of Doc Blocks. These blocks must be placed inmediately before each declaration that we want to comment. The blocks have the form: /** *short description *long description *tags (see below) */ Using packages Fir

]]> This time, we are going to talk about the standard PHPDoc. A PHPDoc documentation is a set of Doc Blocks. These blocks must be placed inmediately before each declaration that we want to comment. The blocks have the form: /** *short description *long description *tags (see below) */ Using packages Fir

]]> 23 Mar 2009 16:15:17 GMT http://www.arzion.com/internet-business/posts/Working-with-ASPnet-and-the-Flickr-Api Today, I'm going to teach you how to work with the Flickr API, more precisely with FlickrNet First of all we'll need an API key to use the library. We can get the key in www.flickr.com/services/api/keys. Once we have the key we proceed to download the library from FlickrNet website:

]]> Today, I'm going to teach you how to work with the Flickr API, more precisely with FlickrNet First of all we'll need an API key to use the library. We can get the key in www.flickr.com/services/api/keys. Once we have the key we proceed to download the library from FlickrNet website:

]]> 23 Mar 2009 15:40:04 GMT http://www.arzion.com/internet-business/posts/Automatic-documentation-for-PHP How many times we developed a class, and after an intensive test to ensure it works correctly, we are proud of our work and consider the task finished? A lot of times. But 5 minutes after, we say: "oh no, I forgot the documentation!!".

]]> How many times we developed a class, and after an intensive test to ensure it works correctly, we are proud of our work and consider the task finished? A lot of times. But 5 minutes after, we say: "oh no, I forgot the documentation!!".

]]> 4 Mar 2009 12:10:09 GMT http://www.arzion.com/internet-business/posts/Kernel-compiled-with-the-Intel-CC-plus-plus-Compiler Exciting news from the LinuxDNA project, which earlier this month successfully compiled a recent Linux kernel with the Intel C/C++ compiler (ICC). This is not just a compile without errors, this is — for the most part — a fully bootable, compatible Linux kernel that

]]> Exciting news from the LinuxDNA project, which earlier this month successfully compiled a recent Linux kernel with the Intel C/C++ compiler (ICC). This is not just a compile without errors, this is — for the most part — a fully bootable, compatible Linux kernel that

]]> 4 Mar 2009 01:23:51 GMT http://www.arzion.com/internet-business/posts/Export-to-PDF-with-WinNovative-WnvHtmlConvert In this example, I'll teach you how to export an URL to a PDF document, using the WinNovative WnvHTMLConvert library. Sadly this library isn't free, but you can download the DLL wich has only one restriction and that is every time you export, it prints over the PDF a message saying you are using an evaluation version. The link to download the DLL is the next one:

]]> In this example, I'll teach you how to export an URL to a PDF document, using the WinNovative WnvHTMLConvert library. Sadly this library isn't free, but you can download the DLL wich has only one restriction and that is every time you export, it prints over the PDF a message saying you are using an evaluation version. The link to download the DLL is the next one:

]]> 4 Mar 2009 00:42:16 GMT http://www.arzion.com/internet-business/posts/List-files-from-a-FTP-server In this little example, I'll show you how to list files from a FTP server. We need to import the following namespaces:   <%@ Import Namespace="System.Net" %> <%@ Import Namespace="System.IO" %> <%@ Import Namespace="System.Collections.Generic" %>   Then, we add a Grid

]]> In this little example, I'll show you how to list files from a FTP server. We need to import the following namespaces:   <%@ Import Namespace="System.Net" %> <%@ Import Namespace="System.IO" %> <%@ Import Namespace="System.Collections.Generic" %>   Then, we add a Grid

]]> 11 Feb 2009 20:33:53 GMT http://www.arzion.com/internet-business/posts/LXDE-lightweight-X11-desktop-environment "Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment", is an extremely faster, performing and energy saving desktop environment. It is maintained by an international community of developers and comes with a beautiful interface, multi-language support, standard keyboard short cuts and additional features like tabbed file browsing. This desktop uses less CPU and less RAM. It was especially designed for cl

]]> "Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment", is an extremely faster, performing and energy saving desktop environment. It is maintained by an international community of developers and comes with a beautiful interface, multi-language support, standard keyboard short cuts and additional features like tabbed file browsing. This desktop uses less CPU and less RAM. It was especially designed for cl

]]> 9 Feb 2009 19:23:11 GMT http://www.arzion.com/internet-business/posts/Cut-and-paste-big-files In this mini tutorial I will show you how to cut and paste big files on Linux. There are just 2 simple commands that will be very helpful to you, in case that you need to split any file, or to move it from one folder to another, or whatever you need to do. Suppose we have a 1GB file, and we want to split it in 10 parts... well, first of all tip the next command:

]]> In this mini tutorial I will show you how to cut and paste big files on Linux. There are just 2 simple commands that will be very helpful to you, in case that you need to split any file, or to move it from one folder to another, or whatever you need to do. Suppose we have a 1GB file, and we want to split it in 10 parts... well, first of all tip the next command:

]]> 1 Feb 2009 20:40:56 GMT http://www.arzion.com/internet-business/posts/Hide-PHP-extension-with-htaccess Hi, this time i'm going to teach you how to rewrite an URL using the .htaccess file. Using this technique you will be able to "hide" every physical file extension such as product.php to be shown as product.html in the address bar of the browser but the actual file name remains product.php and you don’t need to rename the file extension. Furthermore you can rewrite th

]]> Hi, this time i'm going to teach you how to rewrite an URL using the .htaccess file. Using this technique you will be able to "hide" every physical file extension such as product.php to be shown as product.html in the address bar of the browser but the actual file name remains product.php and you don’t need to rename the file extension. Furthermore you can rewrite th

]]> 30 Jan 2009 13:13:18 GMT http://www.arzion.com/internet-business/posts/Learn-Jquery-from-scratch--day-1- Javascript potential and its enhacement by web 2.0 revolution has made lot of js frameworks appear to allow us create the same scripts in a more easy and intuitive way. Among all available frameworks, Jquery is my choice, for its simple syntax and as their slogan says "Write less, do more". But you'll want to know why you have to choose among all the other f

]]> Javascript potential and its enhacement by web 2.0 revolution has made lot of js frameworks appear to allow us create the same scripts in a more easy and intuitive way. Among all available frameworks, Jquery is my choice, for its simple syntax and as their slogan says "Write less, do more". But you'll want to know why you have to choose among all the other f

]]> 15 Jan 2009 23:33:00 GMT http://www.arzion.com/internet-business/posts/Paging-with-ASPnet Many of the problems at the time of paginating results come at the moment when we mix our HTML design with the code to show the results. Default pagers, barely works for us, or if they do, not meet the things we want to do. So, I bring you an example of pagination that is easily adaptable to almost any idea that we have in mind. First of all, let's start with the HTML code and the A

]]> Many of the problems at the time of paginating results come at the moment when we mix our HTML design with the code to show the results. Default pagers, barely works for us, or if they do, not meet the things we want to do. So, I bring you an example of pagination that is easily adaptable to almost any idea that we have in mind. First of all, let's start with the HTML code and the A

]]> 15 Jan 2009 13:14:38 GMT http://www.arzion.com/internet-business/posts/15-Blogs-that-a-web-developer-must-read In our job change its change its the only constant (and this could change too), and because of this keep us informed es an advantage.  Here you have a list of the best blogs to add them to your google reader. Javascript frameworks and ajax world

]]> In our job change its change its the only constant (and this could change too), and because of this keep us informed es an advantage.  Here you have a list of the best blogs to add them to your google reader. Javascript frameworks and ajax world

]]> 2 Jan 2009 04:11:55 GMT http://www.arzion.com/internet-business/posts/Using-Curl-to-Post-Data Curl its a php library that alow us to comunicate between servers using diferent protocols such us http, https, ftp, gopher, telnet, dict, file and Idap. It's very useful, for example we can create a web crawler or even upload files using FTP. Something interesting that we can do with this library, is to simulate a user surf in a site. In this case, we are going to use

]]> Curl its a php library that alow us to comunicate between servers using diferent protocols such us http, https, ftp, gopher, telnet, dict, file and Idap. It's very useful, for example we can create a web crawler or even upload files using FTP. Something interesting that we can do with this library, is to simulate a user surf in a site. In this case, we are going to use

]]> 26 Nov 2008 04:52:36 GMT http://www.arzion.com/internet-business/posts/Speed-up-your-javascript-libs-with-google-technology Always thinking about user experience,our development load speed its very important. Maybe a way in wich web 2.0 had impacted in our applications are the better integrated elements needed. This has raised the amount of javascript libraries we have to embed in our sites. Google always thinking about the user, has decided a few months ago colaborate with us, and they provide us

]]> Always thinking about user experience,our development load speed its very important. Maybe a way in wich web 2.0 had impacted in our applications are the better integrated elements needed. This has raised the amount of javascript libraries we have to embed in our sites. Google always thinking about the user, has decided a few months ago colaborate with us, and they provide us

]]> 11 Oct 2008 22:09:24 GMT http://www.arzion.com/internet-business/posts/The-war-of-smartphones--Apple-vs-Lg-vs-Samsung- The war of smartphones The Iphone from Apple, start the war of the movil phones. See in this video the comparatives bettween APPLE, LG, SAMSUNG

]]> The war of smartphones The Iphone from Apple, start the war of the movil phones. See in this video the comparatives bettween APPLE, LG, SAMSUNG

]]> 3 Oct 2008 02:27:09 GMT http://www.arzion.com/internet-business/posts/Nokia-5800-XpressMusic   While it may not be Nokia's first touchscreen phone (anyone out there remember the 7710?), the

]]>   While it may not be Nokia's first touchscreen phone (anyone out there remember the 7710?), the

]]> 29 Sep 2008 04:31:09 GMT http://www.arzion.com/internet-business/posts/Search-engine-visibility--Part-I- In the last weekend, I began read a book about SEO called "Search Engine Visibility" writed by Shari Thurow. I will try to transcript in this post some ideas from the first chapters which I found very interesting. To get the best overall, long-term search engine visibility, three components must be present on a web page:

]]> In the last weekend, I began read a book about SEO called "Search Engine Visibility" writed by Shari Thurow. I will try to transcript in this post some ideas from the first chapters which I found very interesting. To get the best overall, long-term search engine visibility, three components must be present on a web page:

]]> 19 Sep 2008 02:04:19 GMT http://www.arzion.com/internet-business/posts/Design-Patterns-for-PHP The design patterns are software solutions that have been developed and refined over time. Therefore, this is not the designs that people tend to generate when it initially starts to develop an application or a project, but reflect the entire redesign and recoding that developers have done as they struggled to achieve greater reuse and flexibility in their software. Reuse and flexibility ar

]]> The design patterns are software solutions that have been developed and refined over time. Therefore, this is not the designs that people tend to generate when it initially starts to develop an application or a project, but reflect the entire redesign and recoding that developers have done as they struggled to achieve greater reuse and flexibility in their software. Reuse and flexibility ar

]]> 18 Sep 2008 18:08:43 GMT http://www.arzion.com/internet-business/posts/Installing-Samba-in-Ubuntu Samba is an open source implementation of the shared file protocol created by Microsoft. It allow us to share files and printers from a Linux PC to a Windows PC. Let's get down to business: installation and configuration. 1º) Open a console and type the next: user:localhost~$ sudo apt-get install samba smbfs 2º) We proceed

]]> Samba is an open source implementation of the shared file protocol created by Microsoft. It allow us to share files and printers from a Linux PC to a Windows PC. Let's get down to business: installation and configuration. 1º) Open a console and type the next: user:localhost~$ sudo apt-get install samba smbfs 2º) We proceed

]]> 12 Sep 2008 21:14:07 GMT http://www.arzion.com/internet-business/posts/Hackers-infiltrate-Large-Hadron-Collider-systems Hackers have mounted an attack on the Large Hadron Collider, raising concerns about the security of the biggest experiment in the world. As the first particles were circulating in the machine near Geneva where the world wide web was born, a Greek group hacked into the facility, posting a warning about wea

]]> Hackers have mounted an attack on the Large Hadron Collider, raising concerns about the security of the biggest experiment in the world. As the first particles were circulating in the machine near Geneva where the world wide web was born, a Greek group hacked into the facility, posting a warning about wea

]]> 12 Sep 2008 20:56:52 GMT http://www.arzion.com/internet-business/posts/Cuil-is-saying-goodbye Google's shadow Cuil, is slowly dying. In the few short weeks of its existence, the highly-promoted new search engine Cuil has dropped to almost zero usage share. The share drop comes amidst massive criticism of Cuil's search results, where reports of unrelated results to what was being searched were common. See it before it disappear in

]]> Google's shadow Cuil, is slowly dying. In the few short weeks of its existence, the highly-promoted new search engine Cuil has dropped to almost zero usage share. The share drop comes amidst massive criticism of Cuil's search results, where reports of unrelated results to what was being searched were common. See it before it disappear in

]]> 9 Sep 2008 22:12:47 GMT http://www.arzion.com/internet-business/posts/Google-cuts-data-retention-time-in-half Under pressure from European regulators, Google is halving the amount of time its stores Internet Protocol addresses. In a blog post, Google said it would keep IP addresses on its server logs for 9 months before anonymizing them, down from the 18 months it had previousl

]]> Under pressure from European regulators, Google is halving the amount of time its stores Internet Protocol addresses. In a blog post, Google said it would keep IP addresses on its server logs for 9 months before anonymizing them, down from the 18 months it had previousl

]]> 26 Aug 2008 03:39:53 GMT http://www.arzion.com/internet-business/posts/First-steps-with-ASPnet-MVC MVC is a framework that divides the implementation of an application in three roles: models, views and controllers.     • The "models" of an application based on MVC are the components responsible for maintaining the state. Suppose in this case, a database.    • The "views" are the components responsible for displayi

]]> MVC is a framework that divides the implementation of an application in three roles: models, views and controllers.     • The "models" of an application based on MVC are the components responsible for maintaining the state. Suppose in this case, a database.    • The "views" are the components responsible for displayi

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