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jQuery plugin to postback an ASP.NET button 20 Aug 2012 | 10:52 pm
We use jQuery a lot here at LavaBlast, but we also use ASP.NET webforms. We needed a simple reusable way to cause a postback on an asp.net managed Button or LinkButton. Here is how it would be used f...
Style ASP.NET Web Forms Validators with qTip 2 13 Aug 2012 | 08:20 pm
View demo | Download source The default validators inside ASP.NET Web Forms are quite uninteresting and require some styling work to look adequate. Recently, we’ve been using the qTip2 jQuery librar...
Microsoft Excel on Multi-Monitor Machines 5 Jun 2012 | 11:51 pm
All of the developers at LavaBlast use three monitors; utilizing multiple monitors has significantly increased our efficiency. However, Microsoft Excel doesn’t work particularly well in a multi-monito...
FranchiseBlast Wins Bootstrap Award 28 Feb 2012 | 04:07 am
We’re proud to announce that 2012 is off to a great start! We’ve recently received lots of local recognition and thought we’d share this great news with you. First, we’ve been listed as a Startup To ...
FranchiseBlast Now Member of the CFA and CQF 18 Feb 2012 | 05:25 am
LavaBlast Software Inc. (creator of FranchiseBlast) is proud to announce that it is now a member of both the CFA (Canadian Franchise Association) and the CQF (Conseil Québécois de la Franchise / Quebe...
New Grant for Canadian Franchises to Adopt Tech 16 Nov 2011 | 05:18 am
Yesterday, the Minister of Industry announced a new grant pilot program (DTAPP) offering up to $99,999 in financial support to Canadian small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to facilitate the ado...
LavaBlast and Boomerang Kids: When helping local families meets the Cloud 15 Nov 2011 | 02:17 pm
LavaBlast, a leading provider of cloud-based franchise management solutions, announced today the deployment of its flagship product, FranchiseBlast, to the first of four Boomerang Kids locations. This...
LavaBlast POS v4.0.0 7 Sep 2011 | 05:49 am
We’re just about to release the version 4.0.0 of our franchise point of sale system. One of the most noteworthy change is the fact we’ve given the look & feel a major overhaul, thanks to jQuery Mobile...
Gotcha: Reporting Services Viewer bugs on Google Chrome 29 Jun 2011 | 03:09 am
We include the ASP.NET ReportViewer which comes with Microsoft SQL Reporting Services inside some of our applications. Simply put, it generates a web-based version of the report and can easily be inte...
Using Microsoft POS for .NET in 2011 7 Jun 2011 | 12:41 am
Five years ago, we decided to utilize Microsoft’s Point Of Service for .NET (POS for .NET) in our point of sale (POS) to integrate with the various peripherals used by POS systems. Simply put, POS for...