Thunderbird 3 Search Not Working

By Joe | Published: December 11, 2009

Mozilla recently had Thunderbird 3 Release Candidate 2 available for download. I was Thunderbird 3 Search Not Working Thunderbird3 300x113 interested in trying out the new version. I upgraded my XP machine from version 2 to the Release Candidate version. Upgrade completed successfully. I opened up Thunderbird, and all of my emails were imported fine after the upgrade, and the program proceeded to index all of my emails.

I thought I would test out some the new features being touted in the new release. To my frustration, the new search feature would never complete. I would start typing in a search phrase, and then click on one of the terms suggested to me by sqlite. Thundbird opened a new tabbed, and the interface just showed my search criteria at the top with a dialog in the middle reading “Searching…”. The first couple of tries, I thought there was no matching criteria because Thunderbird’s search seemed to never complete. Read More »

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jQuery Uploadify 2 + CodeIgniter

By Joe | Published: October 1, 2009

jQuery Uploadify 2 + CodeIgniter uploadify logo 300x48 Creating useful upload forms having become very popular on the web these days. Many people have found that flash based options create a more rich user experience. I was working on a project recently to allow a user to upload images to a CodeIgniter application. I enjoy using jQuery, and found an excellent flash based uploader in Uploadify. Read More »

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CodeIgniter Shopping Cart Library

By Joe | Published: August 4, 2009

CodeIgniter is a great PHP framework to work with. One of the items several CodeIgniter Shopping Cart Library ci logo flame developers have been asking to be included in the next CodeIgniter release, is a core library for a shopping cart. The library is being added for CI version 1.7.2, and is currently available via SVN on the CodeIgniter website.

UPDATE 09/12/2009: The shopping cart library has now been released as part of the Code Igniter stable release version 1.7.2. You can dowload it at CodeIgniter.com

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ResponsiBuilders

By Joe | Published: July 29, 2009

I’ve very excited about the launch of this product. The is a really neat game  being made by my relative. ResponsiBuilders is a creative card game to inspire your kids to complete chores around the house.  Somehow when sweeping the floor (amongst other household duties) is printed with neat artwork on a card, kids have fun doing it. Read More »

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Open Flash Chart 2 + CodeIgniter

By Joe | Published: July 27, 2009

Many of you maybe familiar with the CodeIgniter (CI) PHP framework. I was asked by a client recently about creating a graph for some data in a report. Open Flash Chart 2 + CodeIgniter ci logo flame Looking through several charting libraries at the CI website, I found a few options listed in the wiki. Open Flash Chart 2 (OFC) seemed like a nice option and was also open source. There was a couple libraries written for CI using Open Flash Chart, but the recent code for OFC has recently changed. Read More »

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Zen Cart Easy Populate

By Joe | Published: July 26, 2009

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I recently was switching a online store from using osCommerce to Zen-Cart, and realized how nice it is to have the Easy Populate add-on. For those not familiar with the Easy Populate add-on, this allows you to download the product data from your online store into a CSV file. You can open the file in Excel or OpenOffice Calc, edit the spreadsheet (ie. products, quantities, and other attributes), and the re-upload the file. Easy Populate will update your online inventory with the data in the spreadsheet. The one caveat with Easy Populate has been adding custom fields to the export/import data. This has been discussed in the Zen-Cart Forum, but I wanted a better solution than always having to edit the code.

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