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In between dreaming up visions for the future of retail, Darren and WebLinc have been busy making their way around the globe, sometimes without even leaving Philadelphia. If you plan to fly Southwest Airlines before the end of April, look for a picture of Darren cleaning the sand from his briefcase in the airline’s Spirit [...]
This is a very eventful week for the tech community in Philadelphia and WebLinc is excited to be part of it! Come see us on April 26th at the Mobile, Marketing, and eCommerce Trends event hosted by URBN at 3 p.m. Darren Hill, co-Founder and CEO of WebLinc eCommerce will share his vision for the [...]
Method chains are commonplace in jQuery. A typical jQuery pattern is to chain several method calls onto a jQuery object representing a selection from the DOM:
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$('#nav li') .removeClass('selected') .filter(':first') .addClass('selected'); |
In order to continue a chain, each method must return an object to be the subject of the next method call. If you want to execute a function [...]
Internationalization is the process of designing an application with the flexibility to adapt to any language or region. Developing for internationalization/localization (i18n/l10n) quickly illustrates how common front-end techniques prove to be problematic. How can we adapt techniques to serve the international user? In any language? And in any region? Let’s examine how we can overcome [...]
Last year, we questioned whether Thanksgiving is the new Cyber Monday. This year comes word from benchmarking service Coremetrics that Thanksgiving Day online shopping rose by 39 percent over last year, with estimated U.S. sales of $400 million. And according to Internet Retailer, this is the first time Thanksgiving Day sales have beaten Saturday’s sales. [...]
Sally McKenzie, a 20-year veteran of eCommerce and brick-and-mortar retail, posted a great article today regarding lessons learned on the job over the years. An excerpt: Lesson #1: This will be harder and more expensive than you think. This lesson is particularly important for executives new to the online channel, many of whom have little [...]
Findings from a new report from Forrester Research and GSI Commerce are somewhat surprising, in that the study suggests that social media has very little impact on purchasing behavior. The results seem contrary to other reports with headlines such as Social Media Marketing Spend to Hit $3.1 Billion by 2014 and 5 Ways Facebook’s Open [...]
One of the big stories from last week is that Walmart.com is testing Walmart To Go, enabling consumers in its San Jose, CA test market to buy groceries online. While Wal-Mart has offered a similar service in the past, this is the first time they’re giving consumers the option of buying fresh foods (produce and [...]
Word came this morning from TechCrunch that eBay has agreed to buy GSI Commerce for $29.25 a share, or total consideration of approximately $2.4 billion. The news comes on the heels of Oracle’s November 2010 announcement that they are purchasing ATG, and the acquisition of Fry Inc. by MICROS in 2008, among others. Whether GSI, [...]
Sitting around the TV with my family on Thanksgiving this year, I noticed a trend: While the football games buzzed from the flat screen, instead of asking to change the channel or playing cards or playing with the dogs, my sisters sat on the couch with their laptops and shopped. One was looking for advance [...]