Category Archives: Development

PhoneGap 1.0 Released

The PhoneGap open source mobile development platform released their 1.0 version on Friday at the first ever PhoneGap Day in Portland. The platform originally launched in 2009 and after some iPhone App Store hiccups, they have steadily improved by fixing … Continue reading

Using Modern Techniques for Great Web Typography

Great typography use is one of the most important factors in creating beautiful design. Unfortunately, at the same time web typography has been the most limiting and frustrating technology in web design and development for some time. Not too long … Continue reading

Using .NET to Handle Sophisticated Error Scenarios

When developing a site in ASP.NET, it’s a good idea to create one or more custom error pages for the site. These pages are called when an unhandled exception occurs in your code so that rather than display an ugly … Continue reading

Three (Somewhat) Easy & (Really) Important Ways to Improve Your Site with jQuery

Web developers have been using JavaScript to layer on enhanced user interfaces and add dynamic content since the days of Netscape Navigator’s dominance. Today JavaScript can be used to build huge advanced web applications but it still remains a valuable … Continue reading

MarketNet Creates iPhone App for New LifeStyles

The New LifeStyles iPhone app, developed by MarketNet, offers a free, quick and easy way to find nearby retirement communities, senior living communities, nursing care and Alzheimer’s care.   The matching locations are color-coded so that you can filter your … Continue reading

After Long Beta, Drupal 7 Finally Released

The Drupal community has released version 7 of its powerful open source content management platform. Over three years in the making, Drupal 7 proclaims to be the most flexible and easy to use version ever. Administrators and moderators will be … Continue reading

How to Customize Your Navigation with an Older Premium Theme

Someone else out there is like me: you’ve upgraded your blog to WordPress 3.0.1, but the creators of your premium theme hasn’t been upgraded. You want all that awesome navigation structuring functionality but the best you can do is to … Continue reading

YouTube Mobile Redesigned, Now Using HTML5 for Video

YouTube has updated the mobile version of their site with several important improvements, including now serving videos using the HTML5 video tag. If you’re using an HTML5 compliant mobile browser, which includes the iPhone and Android phones, you’ll get the … Continue reading

EPiServer Releases New Version of Relate+ Community Package

MarketNet partner EPiServer has released version 2.0 of their excellent community product Relate+. The package builds on EPiServer CMS 6 and EPiServer Community 4 to ease the deployment of full featured online community sites. EPiServer Relate+ 2.0 focuses on improving … Continue reading

Cisco Show and Share: YouTube for the Enterprise?

Last week at an event in Las Vegas, Cisco surprised the tech blogs when they announced their new Android-based tablet dubbed the Cius. Without a cool new gadget to go with it, their new social video system didn’t cause as … Continue reading