We at Reflect Studios would like to welcome in the new year of 2013 and hope every one had a great holiday!

We have been pretty busy the past months on many projects ranging from the usual suspects of websites to a complete and custom iPad app for a very large fortune 500 company! Please excuse the lack of content during those times, as we have just updated the site with new projects that we have completed. We are excited to welcome in the new year and any new clients that wish to use our services! If you have any questions or would like to know more of what we do just go ahead and shoot us an email or give us a call at 323.590.7095

Well I spent the past couple weeks on and off doing major upgrades to my one of my web sites called Job Hustler. Job Hustler is a job listing site that populates it’s data from the ineterwebs into a single easy to use software platform. It has a lot of benefits for free lancers, job seekers, employers and any one looking for a job pretty much.

I added a bunch of new features to the site that will allow the users experience of applying to a job much easier and faster! I am calling this new feature-package a Pro Hustler account. Here is a quick list of what is included with a Pro Hustler account.

• Ad Free Site
• Instant Emails
• Unlimited Quick Blasts
• Unlimited Resumes!
• Change Email Subject Title!

If you have never been to the site before, these features might not make any sense to you. So here is a link to learning more about the features and what exactly the site does Job Hustler 411.

A lot of time was also put into upgrading the sites functionality across the map to all members, I re-visited the emailing software and customized it so it would try its hardest not to be flagged by spam. That was an issue I was experiencing with gmail accounts, any time an email was sent out to a gmail account it was auto-sent to the spam folder. So I did some pretty heavy research, looking trough my logs and founds some items that needed to be improved! I went ahead and update the PHP’s pears Mail and Mail_Mime library including doing some customization to the Mail.php file under Pears Mail plugin. I noticed that by default settings that when you sent an email by the Mail->send() function, no “Reply-To” header is supplied, so it leaves the sever to decide what to put there. Even if you add a variable to headers array with the key/value set to “Reply-To”/you@example.com the logs still showed that it was being sent by the servers default email alias.

After doing hours upon hours of searching I found out that you needed to add a special flag. Where you needed to add this flag was in the constructor of Pears Mail object. What is that flag you might ask? “-f you@example.com” replace with you@example.com with the senders email of course and BAM! you have now set the Reply-To header value. That seemed to add that extra kick I needed to make the emails more legit and not easily sent off to the spam folder.

The goal of this site was for you to easily browse this site on both computer and mobile devices with out worrying about the old flash site that I had. This will allow you to easily look at my services I offer and my pervious and upcoming projects. On top of that I wanted to be able to post up blogs that will help other developers and designers such as my self. I will be posting up custom jQuery plugins, wordpress plugins, PHP tips, HTML tips, jQuery and Javascript tips and a bunch of other web development tips and info to help spread my knowledge of this community.

With saying that this will be a great tool for other web developers to collaborate with my tips and plugins to help out both you and I out. I know that there is always some one out there that is better then me, and I will be more then willing to admit that and allow other users put there two cents in to come up with a great resource for others.

So stay tuned while I update this site with more and more blog posts regarding tips and future projects I will be working on!

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