As indicated by Saimon, a lot of people have wondered how they could use ffmpeg to produce videos that can leverage the use of the html5 tag <video>. The objective is to avoid the use of the Flash technology. In order to achieve this objective, you need to run the following command to get a WebM [...]

I always have an extremely challenging time trying to ignore files in a Subversion repository. It must be that I just don’t get it. To me, there should only be one parameter for ignoring a file, the file itself.  That’s not how SVN properties work, though. svn propset A typical command for ignoring a file [...]

In my experience the biggest danger in using code that is posted online is that you may end up investing a significant amount of time trying to understand it before realizing that it either doesn’t work as described or won’t work for your intended purpose. Having a good process that helps you make the decision [...]

Brad Shorr recently wrote a great article on Smashing Magazine’s website discussing five errors in web copywriting which can ruin an otherwise perfectly good website. Unfortunately, too often too much time is focused on the design and functionality of a website, and while those are important factors, having compelling copy that forces an action by [...]

With the release of Drupal 7 on January 5th of this year, there’s a new consideration in the mix for building Drupal sites. Is this old news? Yes. The new…news, however, is that you should begin asking this question: Should I go with Drupal 6 or Drupal 7? Drupal Version 7? When Drupal 7 was [...]

Recently, a client who displays most of his content through views asked me to address an issue with comment submission. This Drupal 6 site made heavy use of views in order to render nodes in various states. Users were being confused when they submitted a form on a page with a buy button but after [...]

How to demo and test mobile web applications using Chrome and User Agents to simulate a mobile device.

Our developers recently had a discussion on where to host a WordPress / Drupal website. One of our clients was looking to move from their existing host to a faster, more reliable one. Their criteria was to be an inexpensive, fast, yet reliable host with good technical support. Essentially the same criteria most of our [...]

ITWorld.com recently had an article on their site taking a look at the two big Open-Source CMS powerhouses, Drupal and Joomla!. The article, written by Daniel P. Dern, goes over the vast differences not only in the software, but in the development community. Taking a look at the conferences that each platform has, documentation and [...]

I never thought that I would see reverse outsourcing occur so quickly and so fast as I have in the mobile development market this year.  For all of you that might be unclear, “Reverse Outsourcing” is as it sounds, jobs and IT projects coming back to the U.S. from overseas. Last year our firm lost [...]