The Technology Station
3 May
If you have installed your WordPress blog to a sub-directory only later to determine you want to attach a sub domain to your site to point to your blog, you may find that all your SEO urls are now broken. The fix to this problem is a simple Apache url rewrite that can redirect your users to the new article.
26 Apr
Yesterday, the developers at Facebook announced the Send Button to its list of social media plug-ins. This button is similar to the Like Button but allows you to send messages relating to the website that the button was found on. Continue Reading
29 Dec
Many times when developing your website you will want to require your website to be accessable using http://www.example.com as opposed to http://example.com. This is easily accomplished using the .htaccess file and the mod_rewrite plugin.
20 Dec
Cron is a essential website tool to automate tasks on your website. Cron is a process that runs on the same server as your webserver that allows you to run scripts at specific times and dates such as once a month, once a week, every 20 minutes or the 4th day of November at 2pm. So you spend some time developing your cron PHP scrip and you believe the script is setup correctly to run, you wait for the time it is expected to run and…NOTHING! Now what? Continue Reading
2 Nov
Coyne Technology Systems is pleased to announce the development of the Fairways and Roughs website. This website design is a custom developed website for golfers and golf enthusiasts. The design uses a custom CMS style website with the capability to hold polling events, calendar events, and user-to-user messages. It also includes friend and group capabilities. We have also created statistical details for tracking golf games and golf history from a site and user perspective. The site allows users to track golf games and discuss golf games and golf topics.
If you would like to check out the site, you can follow the link to Fairways and Roughs website and signup for a free account to start tracking your golf game now!
28 Jun
We are pleased to announce the release of the AVR Logic Analyzer plug in Version 1.1 to the Atmel™ AVR Studio 4 development environment. The AVR Logic Analyzer displays IO port information for the AVR processor as defined in the AVR Studio project in a graphical manner. It records all of the IO port values as they are updated and allows you to see historical port value changes. Continue Reading
2 Jun
WHMCS is a client management, billing, and support solution and is widely used as the back end system to manage Web Hosting sites. WHMCS includes a built in knowledge base system where the administrator can create categories and articles to support clients in performing common web hosting tasks. In version 4.1.1 of WHMCS, the ability to use Search Engine Optimized (SEO) file names from the knowledge base (KB) is available. Creating sitemaps for theses were often tedious and error prone since each sitemap entry had to be added manually from the KB article title. This article describes the WHMCS admin add on module to overcome this manual entry and automatically generate the sitemap file from the WHMCS database entries. Continue Reading
25 May
We are pleased to announce the release of the TailWin log file viewer for Winodws™. TailWin log file viewer watches a text file in the Windows™ file system and prints out the newly added lines of text in the file in the program’s main window in reverse order showing the most recent text lines last. Continue Reading
1 Apr
We are pleased to announce the release of the AVR Additional Tools plug in Version 1.0 to the Atmel™ AVR Studio 4 development environment. The AVR Additional Tools plug in allows the user to define custom programs to be executed from within the AVR Studio 4 menu system. Continue Reading
22 Mar
WHMCS is a client management and billing support system primarily used as the back-end system for managing web hosting websites. Among other things, WHMCS includes the ability to send announcements to clients as messages in the hosting area, RSS feeds, or emails. Many articles have been written on how to include the announcements into custom developed webpages outside of the WHMCS billing system such as including them in a static home page for the site. In some cases you may wish to send an announcement about a potential change or upgrade that you would want to send to your clients, but may not be appropriate for your home page. This article will explain what is needed to selectively display announcements on the home page and create a WHMCS add-on module to allow control over which announcements are displayed on the external page. Continue Reading
