Independent Software crafts beautiful, professional websites and database solutions in Maputo, Mozambique.

I recently developed a WordPress website with various custom post types. Some of these CPTs had a metadata field called attachment , and it would store the URL and filesize of a PDF file attached to the post. All was well until I uploaded the website do a new server, with a different domain name. All of a sudden, none of the thousands of custom posts had an attachment.

Read more

So you’re trying to copy the website you just developed using the Avada theme to a webserver. Upload done, all you need to do is export the local Avada theme options to a JSON string, and import them again on the server. And then it fails: You land on a 404 page that says that options.php  could not be found.

Read more

We’re sure you’re using the fantasic FontAwesome CSS library in all your web apps. Great icons and easy to use! But are you using all the tricks that make FontAwesome even easier to use? Check out these 7 FontAwesome tricks that you may not have spotted in the documentation.
Read more

I had been using the Slim PHP Microframework with great success building an AngularJS single page web application with a REST backend. Everything was fast, only minimal amounts of data was exchanged between client and server — and then I ran into trouble. Most of my REST responses would set a HTTP content type of application/json . While this worked fine on IIS on Windows, on Apache/Linux the content type would always revert to text/html .

Read more

Originally, a Matroid is a mathematical structure in combinatorics. It is now also the name of a company that detects people and objects in video feeds, and allows users (and devs) to build their own custom detectors.

Read more

Objects are JavaScript’s most important data type. They behave much like associative arrays (or hashes) in other languages in that they allow you store and retrieve values by name. In this tutorial, we will look at what a JavaScript object really is, and at three different ways of creating them and the advantages of each approach.

Read more