Technology
24 Apr 2013
Black Duck Software recently released the results of its 7th annual “Future of Open Source” survey, and one data point in particular caught my eye.
When you think of the world’s largest and most recognized open source communities, they tend to focus on projects that are either...
16 Apr 2013
Whenever you migrate your website, it’s easy to spoil your search rankings. Whether moving to Drupal from another CMS or a previous version of Drupal, there are a number of steps you can take to preserve your site’s Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Take a look at the steps and...
15 Apr 2013
Sites using shared databases for tables like shared users are great for sharing users between sites. It works for many other entities as well. The tricky part is using Solr indexing on this content.
The way Solr indexes things is when a new entity that should be indexed is added it is marked for...
26 Nov 2012
"Show More" buttons help content managers display less text when they want to have a more visual layout. Recently I had the task to make a "Show More" button and functionality that is as reusable as possible. Most "Show More" scripts that are out there function on word...
14 Aug 2012
If you're a WordPress developer, then the following plugins will undoubtedly make your life easier. These are a few of the plugins I've found particularly useful when debugging or migrating WordPress sites.
1. P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler)
P3 is a plugin benchmarking tool. It scans your site and...
6 Jul 2012
Titanium is a cross-platform JavaScript runtime and API framework used to do mobile development on iOS, Android, and, most recently, the mobile web, with possible future support for Blackberry and Windows. It is only similar to other popular frameworks such as Rhodes and PhoneGap in that they all...
3 Jul 2012
The buzz over the past few years has been about the creation of mobile applications (apps), and interest continues grow. Many technology and web companies are wondering what is the best way to establish a presence in the mobile app space and what approach should be taken now and for the future of...
23 Apr 2012
Recently I had the task of creating a form that utilized an auto-complete text field that filtered on a specific field of a table. This seemed like a great candidate to use the core auto-complete and after a sprint of information gathering I had what I thought would be enough. After delivery I...
16 Apr 2012
The third launch of County Health Rankings has been the most exciting out of any of the three due to the mapping component that serves as the primary way to access the rankings.
Having a map on the home page isn't new for County Health Rankings, each version of the site has had one. But where...
28 Mar 2012
For some time now we have been keeping our eyes on and following the development of Nginx. Nginx is an open source alternative to the ubiquitous Apache web server (the “A” in the LAMP acronym). Just like a lot of web development firms we have always used Apache because “that...
