Web Development
SOPA – Cutting Through the Hype
I was asked recently by a local tech startup attorney, Dave Gillespie, to comment on some of the technical details of the DNS system as they relate to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Below is an excerpt of the full article “SOPA – Cutting Through the Hype” written by Scott Brown, intellectual property attorney at The Gillespie Law Group. Much has been written about the Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA) in recent months – most of it important, all of it passionate, but through all the fervent positioning, the [...]
Developer Resources I’ve Started Using
I thought I would share some helpful tools I’ve been using the past couple weeks to make my coding workflow easier. Feel free to let us know what tools you use in your workflow that better your coding skills. All of these apps are for the Mac and available in the Mac App Store for FREE. LittleIpsum – For those times when you need to input text as space fillers for your client’s website. This sits in your status bar and you can grab as little as 1 word to [...]
Incorporating Twilio API into Client Project
I’m really excited about one of our new clients and the technology that we’re going to be able to create for them. The project is going to give me a good excuse to incorporate Twilio’s API! There are some competitor’s out there but I’ll outline the reasons why I’m excited to use Twilio and where to go for more information if you want to try out Twilio. It’s pretty. The reason I’m excited most about Twilio is that their website makes a complicated matter, telephony API calls, seem easy. And [...]
The Best Way to Learn Ruby on Rails by a PHP Developer
One of the things I like best about working at Buckeye Interactive (BI) is the community of learning that is fostered here. We are always experimenting, tinkering, breaking, and building with the latest technologies, tools, and widgets we can find. Currently, all of the web solutions we provide for clients use PHP as the underlying language. I’ve been hearing nothing but good things about the Ruby language and more importantly Ruby on Rails (RoR). I have been contemplating making the switch on my personal projects and if you’re wondering how [...]
Inspirational Web Design Sources
With the web being an ever changing world new web design trends are constantly rising and falling. It is a constant effort on my part to keep up with or even try to get ahead of the curve in the online design world. There is a wealth of gallery type websites featuring different works by artists displaying excellent examples I use for my personal inspiration. I have hand picked a few of my favorites that I check on a daily basis: AWWWARDS Daily updated feed of the best of the best [...]
We Packed the House with our first Workshop!
On May 25, our team took on a whole new challenge - teaching a room of 17 to build a WordPress site in 2.5 hours! The experience was great one and we have already planned our next one for July 6. Check what one of the attendees left with after the workshop!
So you want to build a website | What is the Process?
Some of our readers may want to build their own websites, or at least understand the process from start to finish. If you’re an adventurous do-it-yourself kind of business owner, hopefully this guide will give you enough information to launch your own basic website. Before jumping into this process, you should definitely put some thought and planning into the goals you have for your site. In this series, though, I’m focusing more on the technical steps than on the business side of things. We’ll save that for a future series! [...]
Pricing Models: Time & Materials vs. Fixed Price
A developer friend of mine, Tian Davis, posted a little commentary about Five Skills Every Freelancer Must Have. He based his comments on his experience as a developer and on a talk given my Nathaniel Talbott some time ago. See Tian’s post for a summary and an embedded video. I agree with most of Nathaniel’s points, and they’re ones most freelancers don’t do well (i.e. taking every project/client they can get, not collecting promptly, failing to deliver value continually). There’s one point I don’t agree about, though, and it’s the one [...]
