I am now running 3 Sites with Magento. Two are Traditional Shopping cart sites, but the my newest one had to be an affiliate style site. What I mean by an affiliate site is that when you click on the buy it now button you are taken to a 3rd party website to complete the sale. Magento does not do this out of the box, it took a long sleepless night for me to figure out how to do this. Not too many people are willing to share how they did this either. I have to thank Platinumtackle.com for their help. I will be releasing the template that I created to do this very soon. I need to test it some...

UPDATE 6:40AM EST We Have released Black Jack Basic Strategy v1.0 This is a chart of proper Basic Strategy in Black Jack. This is our first app we have ever released. This is still in beta and we know it needs work. We have a range of updates coming soon. Upcoming Features: - Set location (Vegas, Atlantic City, Other). - Set number of Decks in use. - And more. Thank you for trying this out, Please leave comments. Hopefully today we will release our first Android app. This post will be updated as things progress. If you have the app, please leave a comment. Bookmark It Hide...

As you may have noticed this site received a major update today in the way the site looks and feels. I would appreciate comments and feedback if you’d like the new layout. My goal the layout was to simplify and make reading the site easier. Bookmark It Hide Sites

When I started on this adventure to learn Java and in turn learn android I thought this journey was going to be easy. My assumptions were based on the fact that I had previous programming experience. Granted that experience was well over 10 years ago and involved QBasic, Pascal, and Visual Basic. Java and object-oriented programming are difficult and confusing subjects to master. I am continuing on my journey and I am fully dedicated to teaching myself the skills. The time involved in this endeavor is much greater than I anticipated. My advice to anyone trying to accomplish this task without a...

So I have been diving thru all the java books and online videos I can find. The one thing I seem to find it that alot of books focus on getting you to start writing code and alot of the code you just don’t understand fully (Well at least I didn’t). They really don’t explain what and how things are working. I started looking more at Java text books and that really spent too much time on theory and high level coding ideas. I watched some great Videos on line, but they started with test driven development, but I really needed the basics in simple to understand english. What I needed...

After loosing some money in some low/micro stakes cash games and a few MTTs I was getting a little upset. I didn’t really think that these guys were better than me. I did some more searching, reading and trial and error and figured out some of my issues. GOALS First, I think you have to establish your goals. What do you want out of poker? When I started I don’t think I could have answered that question. Do you just want to play for fun and entertainment? If so, that is fine. Learn the basics and then go gambling. Treat it just like any casino game, over the long run you are going...

I took a serious interest in poker a few months ago. This does not mean I just found out about poker. I can remember playing poker with my grandmother when I was 5. It was 5 and 7 card Poker. My family would have monthly Poker games and get togethers, but after my grandmother past away we never seemed to get together anymore and the games were lost. On a recent trip to Atlantic City (AC), my brother in law really wanted to play poker in a casino. It was a little to imitating to just sit down without an understanding of hold’em in a casino worked. When I got home that night I statred reading...

I took a detour on my way to learning Android and Java. I have been busy working on permanent employment things and other nagging issues. I have also been working on my Poker game. More Android antics to come soon. Bookmark It Hide Sites

In continuing my Android Programming saga. On 6/10/2009 I started doing some of the samples on the Android Dev site. At first it was pretty easy, but soon the instructions starting using terms that I didn’t understand. It was now time go back to where I should have started and learn Java. I was soon following some beginner tutorial videos, but found the Videos really skipped the Meaning of certain terms and ideas. I needed a book. Tho I am generally not a fan of the For Dummies books, the Java for Dummies (4th ed) really helped clear up some confusion I was having. I was now able to...

In continuing my Android Programming saga. On 6/9/2009 On my main machine, now running Windows 7 RC I installed the following: Java JDK The Eclipse IDE The Android SDK The Android plug-in for Eclipse. I set up the Virtual device and got the hello World running on the Android emulator. Bookmark It Hide Sites