If you haven’t seen the “Pulse” area on Klout you might want to check it out. You can see the most influential people by many different categories ranging from Late Night hosts to Universities.
I don’t normally write much personal stuff on my blog but I was so proud of my son Nathan last night I have to put this on my blog so I will always have this here.
Last night my son had his “moving up ceremony” from fifth grade to sixth. This is a pretty big deal because three elementary schools merge to one school – about 240 kids total. What I did not know was what I was about to hear when the awards ceremony started. At all of these events I record as much as I can during the introduction and if my child is announced I get the video, if not I usually just delete the video. This time I was actually surprised three times!
In the end, there were five categories of awards and Nathan received three of them. I was truly impressed and proud when I heard he got the last award, which only one boy and one girl in the school get.
I posted the video on Facebook if you want to watch it.
I have been in the process of remodeling my kitchen. I am not going to mention any companies here but you can imagine two very large home improvement stores in the United States and those are the two I will be talking about. Oh yes, and I also checked Amazon. 
A bit back I was asked if one of my blog posts could be translated on a support page for a hosting company’s site. The post was originally put on this blog on 12/19/2012 and is titled “Using the XPath API to figure out my stats“. Here is a snippet of the translated post and link to the site:
Uno de los problemas principales que tengo con WordPress básico es que si bien hace un buen trabajo proporcionando tus estadísticas alrededor de las vistas (el número de vistas que obtienes por publicación), no hace un buen trabajo en lo que respecta al conteo de las publicaciones. En la publicación anterior tuve que crear un cuadro para mostrar cuántas publicaciones de blog escribí en los últimos meses y años. Estoy seguro de que existe un plugin en algún lugar para esto, así que si lo conoces, ¡por favor, dímelo en los comentarios!
http://www.webhostinghub.com/support/es/misc/usar-el-api
I have a collection of videos on my YouTube channel and most of my recent ones are about commerce and more specifically WebSphere Commerce. The commerce related videos are similar to what we would show to a customer in a meeting or at a conference but in a smaller scope and generalized.
I recently had to populate a list and make sure there were no duplicates so I immediately thought of a hash map. While this worked great, I also needed the output to be sorted alphabetically. This is where SortedMap comes into play.
While I could have done this a few ways, I found this method very simple and straightforward. The hash map provides the unique values while the SortedMap provides the auto sorting I needed. I only had about 1000 records to sort so I didn’t have to worry about performance.
In case you do not use the Jetpack plugin for your WordPress site you might want to consider it. The plugin is packed with some professional features. One of those really cool features is the Subscriptions feature. Not only is it easy to subscribe on a WordPress site – see my home page on the upper right for an example, the administration of the subscriptions is basically seamless.
Dojo is considered the most robust JavaScript framework for business applications. If you want to really sink your teeth in then you might want to check out what Sitepen has to offer. The site hosts a blog, support, and workshops to get your team up and running with Dojo very quickly. You can even schedule a free 30 minute call to talk about your project.
Sitepen - Development, support, and training from the makers of Dojo.
This blog post shows how you can use the Image Zoomer plugin by Dynamic Drive:John Davenport Scheuer for jQuery to provide image zoom capability in WebSphere Commerce. While many companies use their own package for image zoom like Adobe, a Dojo widget, or any other JavaScript framework, I wanted to show how easy it is to use this plugin on your WebSphere Commerce site. One, because most of WebSphere Commerce uses Dojo and two, I wanted to show how easy it is to do something like this with the MVC code base in the Aurora store front.
First off, you will need to read about the plugin and the instructions here. Download all of the files and images to your local machine and place them in the following directories. This article assumes you are using the base installation and the AuroraStoreFrontAssetStore.
to AuroraStorefrontAssetStore\imagesNext you are going to put this block of code in ProductDisplay.jsp which can be located in the following directory: AuroraStorefrontAssetStore\Layouts
I modified the original script from the site to use some JSP variables so the code can be reused across extended sites. For instance, the ${jsAssetsDir} variable is used to point to the correct location for the storefront.
Next, inside of ProductFullImage_UI.jspf which can be found in AuroraStorefrontAssetStore\Widgets\ProductFullImage needs to be modified to include the code below. Once again I modified the script so it points to the productFullImage and to the correct location for the load GIF:
Some additional steps you may want to implement for a full integration:
Quick video of it working in Aurora:
You can also check out this article: 25+ jQuery Image Zoom Effect Plugins
