Web Development
9 Highly Useful WordPress Plugins
One of the great things about WordPress is the wide range of plugins available to be installed to add, modify, or remove core functionality. There are over 25,000 plugins freely available in the WordPress.org repository and thousands more premium plugins. There are plugins for SEO, discussion, social media, integration with third party services, and almost anything else you can think of. Not all plugins are built equally, though; some live at the perfect intersection of form and functionality that make them a pleasure to use. Other plugins are kludgy heaps [...]
Buckeye Interactive presents Google Workshop: The Science behind Search & Online Advertising
Buckeye Interactive team members are excited to announce the presentation of our very own lunch and learning event, Google Workshop: The Science behind Search & Online Advertising, with demonstrations by Brad Griffith, CEO, and Sarah Davis, Digital Strategist. The event will begin at 12:00 p.m. with a deli lunch on us where attendees can network with one another and get settled in until 12:30 p.m. After lunch, Sarah will explain how to measure and analyze your traffic with an introduction to Google Analytics. Next, Brad will demonstrate how to attract the [...]
Buckeye Interactive Continues Company Growth with Two Additional Web Developers
NEW ALBANY, Ohio (March 6, 2013) – The Buckeye Interactive team increases and improves development by hiring two additional web developers, Mike Butsko and Josh Costello, to its expanding team. Mike is a PHP/Ruby Web Developer and Administrator from Columbus, Ohio. After earning a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from The Ohio State University, he spent four years working for The Graham Family of Schools as an IT Coordinator. He also spent an additional 16 months developing a large multisite Drupal platform and other WordPress, PHP, and Ruby on Rails projects [...]
Steve's Recap of CodeMash 2013
Last week I was one of the lucky thousands of developers, designers, and business software types to attend CodeMash at the Kalahari Resort in Sandusky, Ohio. 2013 was the 7th year for CodeMash and it drew in technical types from all around North America (that’s right, even Canada). When tickets went on sale back in October the conference sold out in less than a minute, almost unheard of among development conferences. I was lucky enough to grab tickets for myself and a former colleague for our first CodeMash adventure.
A Beginner's Guide to SSL Certificates
The security of a website is one aspect of development that should never be taken too lightly. As more and more of our personal information is stored online, it is important to take steps to make sure this information is kept safe. While it is impossible to make any web application completely secure or “unhackable,” there are techniques and best practices that should be followed to make your site more difficult to steal information from. The first step is to use SSL certificates. When you click a link to go to a [...]
Proprietary vs. Open Source: Meritocracy and Innovation
“The next generation of computing is being led by users, rather than vendors.” —Jim Whitehurst at OSBC 2011 (via Matthew Aslett) Tech and business media outlets, from Business Insider to Information Week to Computer Weekly‘s Open Source Insider, have lately been trumpeting Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurt‘s clarion call to open source. Red Hat is a profitable self-described “meritocracy” that thrives by providing paid support and service packages for their popular Linux distribution, a business model that’s becoming increasingly popular in the industry. While many fans of open source wax [...]
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 [...]