Archive for February, 2010
How to charge clients?
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
Trying to work out how much you're worth charging for web development work? I this question come up on a forum - here's my comments on the subject:
How many pages? If it's 3-5 pages, no worries there's no point charging this. If they want 30-40 pages and expect you to do it all - charge them! Now days CMS's are more common, so the client will do the pages themselves… Continue reading
Query of Queries
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
Query of Queries (QoQ) is great little concept, for a while I never knew when I would ever use this up until a few months ago. Web services generally return strings, but more commonly xml. Then you have some minority that return query results. This is where QoQs work perfect, check out the code snippet below:
// Let's say qryResults has 4 columns - (Name, Address, Phone, Email)
SELECT Name, Address, Phone… Continue reading
I/O Error: Cannot run program “javac”: CreateProcess error=2
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Ever got this error while building a BB JDE (BlackBerry Java Development Environment) Project?
Building
C:\Program Files\Research In Motion\BlackBerry JDE 4.3.0\bin\rapc.exe -quiet import="..\..\..\..\..\Program Files\Research In Motion\BlackBerry JDE 4.3.0\lib\net_rim_api.jar" codename= .rapc warnkey=0x52424200;0x52525400;0x52435200 C:\\.java
I/O Error: Cannot run program "javac": CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified
Error while building project
First check that you have JDK properly installed on your computer. Go to Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs.
If all that's sweet -… Continue reading
Creating a Blackberry Launcher
Saturday, February 20th, 2010
I found this great article on how to create your own blackberry launcher to open a web page. Check out this article: http://crackberry.com/how-create-blackberry-launcher…
Cfwheels
Thursday, February 11th, 2010
I've been checking out this new framework I might use for future cf projects while the fate of fusebox is still undecided. Regardless it seems like the cf version of php's code ignitor…