Sometimes you just can’t figure it out on your own. That list picture that doesn’t want to play nice and line up. Boy, have I got a browser for you!
It’s been around long enough to fire a nerve in your brain when I mention Firefox. The open-source poster boy that slowly steals Internet Explorer uses with every fun new feature is more that a pretty face you know. Hidden among the countless pointless add-ons there’s hope for the developers yet. More...

You could say CMS is one of the core aspects of our solution.  In choosing Kentico as a key partner in this area, we weren't content to simply choose the product and not know anything more about the people behind it.  We're friendly people after all and face-to-face contact is something we favor if the opportunity presents itself.More...

Cloud computing has become one of the big technology buzz terms over the past year or so. Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Facebook are all introducing new services that leverage the "cloud" and most analysts are pointing to cloud computing as the next big thing in technology. Meanwhile, most people - even analysts - have no idea what cloud computing is or how it will really impact technology. More...

In 2008, Amplify set out to identify a Web Content Management System (CMS) partner for our small-to-medium size customer solutions.  We had been using an overly simple one that was largely homegrown. While it did the job, it was not enough for our clients' growing needs, nor our growing aspirations.

We could certainly grow the one we were using, but in the end we felt we could get there much more quickly by bringing in a strong third-party solution and focus instead on our development efforts on the rich, interactive features our customers demanded.  The CMS industry is flooded with solutions, many of which are strong and seasoned.  We thought it best to let them specialize while we focus on the whole solution (design, rich interaction, application features, "smarts," etc.).More...

What better way to spend the holidays than buried in new and exciting code?! I’m talking about JavaScript here. JavaScript has come a long way in the past few years, especially with its integration with the ASP.NET framework, AJAX.  But as you’re plugging away, I’d like to share with you some ways to get around my favorite Internet Explorer bug.More...

So this week we had a client come to us with a challenging request. They wanted a Phish filter on their blog to filter out vulgar words. I spent a few hours searching to see if someone had already written an extension for BlogEngine.Net, but couldn’t find one! So after a Google search and ten minutes of “that’s a real word?!”, I began writing a phish filter. More...

...and no, I'm not taking about train hopping.

I'm in a state of excitement working with Ruby on Rails, a full stack MVC (Model-View-Controller) framework wrapped around a powerful object orientated programming language. I recently have had the pleasure of developing with the Rails on our Virtual Office web application. Working on this project has taken me on a journey that More...

Hooray for Windows! No, I’m not about to bash Microsoft..I’m thankful for a different kind of window. Back when the use of windows first hit that threshold where multiple windows was a reality, they made use of a cool little thing called the “modal window”. This is an application window which forces a user to do something with it before they resume what they were doing. It prevents the user from touching anything else until they’ve appealed to the window's needs.

Now I’m not sure when it was, but recently there has been a big breakthrough in web, popup-like windows. More...

One of the challenges that developers at interactive agencies frequently have is writing similar sections of code multiple times. Sometimes it’s because a web application has multiple similar sections, other times it’s a matter of having similar functionality on different sites. Either way, repetitive code writing reduces productivity and stalls innovation. When a developer is re-writing code that they’ve writted several times before, they have less time to put into to new functionality.

The Don’t Repeat Yourself (aka DRY) philosphy was developed specifically to combat this problem for software teams. More...

In the software development world, there's this neat thing called "source control."  The unfamiliar may think it has to do with news organizations and their informants -- maybe, but thankfully we're not a news organization...

To us, source control (aka "version control") is simply the practice of keeping all files related to a web site or application project in a system that tracks changes to those files. More...