Archive for November, 2009

Adobe Flash Gets Serious About Mobile, Video

We all know Adobe’s Flash is as major player in desktop video, as most of the major streaming video portals use Flash technology.  Today, we hear news of Adobe releasing Flash Player and Air updates, specifically aimed at augmenting both their video and mobile footprint.
What Flash has been missing, from our point of view here [...]

WordPress Tutorial: How to Highlight a Menu Item When Viewing a Page or any Child of a Given Page

A common need that arises when building WordPress templates is that of highlighting a menu item, when the page which represents that menu item (or any of its child pages) is being displayed. Even if a page has many pages beneath it — when we are viewing any of the child pages, we will want [...]

14 Best Practices for WordPress Installation

We love WordPress and we find the standard setup process  to be very easy and elegant.  Additionally, since we use WordPress as a CMS for the majority of our website builds, we have outlined and documented a set of “best practices” which we like to follow.
To follow the steps outlined in this tutorial, we will [...]

Adobe Introduces Mobile Version of Photoshop on Android

A mobile version of Photoshop?  It’s here, Adobe Systems announced today.  Now you can edit those Facebook photos on-the-go, before they go up on your profile.  One more reason to check out the Android platform.
The fact that Adobe is porting a version of an application which is traditionally used by professional media creators over to [...]

We are Now on Facebook

Become a fan of Heaven Interactive on Facebook — the world’s largest social network! The benefits are endless — immediate prestige, an incredible boost to your social status, a level of grandeur as yet unseen by Hollywood starlets and socialites, and constant information and tips for improving your web presence and e-commerce platform.
Join us [...]

iPhone and E-Commerce — Heaven Interactive forms Strategic Partnership with Van Gogh Design

We would like to say hello, and thank you to our newest design partner, Van Gogh Design.  Van Gogh Design is a global design and marketing firm specializing in creating engaging  iPhone applications with compelling user experiences and interactivity.  Its principal, Veronica Van Gogh, brings over a decade of web design and media [...]

We Welcome Natasha Lovas, SF Mortgage Broker and Real Estate Expert

Heaven Interactive is very happy to welcome our new client, Natasha Lovas. Natasha is a San Francisco-based mortgage broker with over 17 years of experience.
Natasha came to us with a need to expand her network and customer base through her blog, as well as her principal website. Natasha has written many articles and [...]

Getting Started with Eclipse PDT and Zend Community Server for PHP Development and Debugging.

Eclipse PDT is a great solution for application developers who want to create code within an intelligent environment, with code assist, syntax coloring and awareness, PHP references, and more.
It is important for many developers to have a built-in debugger through which you can test and debug code locally.  One solution is to use the Zend [...]

PayPal opens up platform to increase transparent payments

Good news on the e-commerce front, PayPal recently announced that is was opening up its API to help businesses conduct transactions more transparently.
This comes at a very good time in the evolution of e-commerce. With PayPal’s new attitude towards transactions, developers will be able to integrate payments into mobile devices and games in a [...]