Senior Analyst at Forrester Research Jeremiah Owyang created a flurry of activity in the Twittersphere with this blog posting. Twitter is fast becoming a important method for communicating, connecting, and finding people, news, and information. Call it social networking with an attention deficit disorder. And if you want to follow me, you can do so [...]
Read MoreWith all the social networking sites out there it’s nice to see some sort of effort to move towards standardization. Google’s OpenSocial is a set of standard APIs for social websites. The list of sites implementing it is impressive, including Orkut, LinkedIn, and MySpace.
Read MoreAccording to a study by PCWorld, the fastest Windows Vista laptop is the MacBook Pro. That’s not a misprint, but it is pretty damn funny. I may be biased since I use a MacBook Pro for all my needs, including running Windows applications via Parallels. I’m a big fan of using the right machine/technology/platform/etc. for [...]
Read MoreNice article from New York Times Technology News regarding small merchants gaining a larger presence online. Bust Out currently does quite a bit of work in this area, most recently with several Shopify implementations. Drop us a line if you need any help doing anything similar. Cheers!
Read MoreHere’s what you get when you combine 8,000 people, LAN bandwidth of 40 gigabits per second, a Cisco CRS-1 router capable of handling 1 billion simultaneous gamers, and one giant arena: DreamHack 2007. Good times. Photo from nytimes.com
Read MoreMy previous posting regarding local web development on Mac OS X was geared towards those running OS X Tiger and Apache 1.3. The new Mac OS X Leopard comes with the 2.2 version of Apache, and with it some tweaks to the way things are set up. PHP comes pre-installed, giving Marc Liyanage a lot [...]
Read MoreThe DataMapper ORM framework is forging ahead and is now on version 0.2.3. In my previous DataMapper post I wrote about how to get started using the 0.1 release of DataMapper in Rails. Today, let’s look at some of what’s new installation-wise, as well as how well DataMapper is handling relationships between our model objects. [...]
Read MoreBust Out Solutions has had the pleasure of maintaining a strong partnership with Play, one of the top branding and design boutiques in the Twin Cities. We recently launched their newly self-designed website, powered by a dynamically generated portfolio and an integrated content management system for easy updates. Check it out and try not to [...]
Read MoreOne of the most common features of an Ajax-enabled application is a “loading” animated image. You know, like a spinny thing that tells the user that “something is happening so wait for a server response.” Creating animated GIFs is not hard, especially when using web imaging software like Adobe Fireworks. But it is time consuming [...]
Read MoreIf the title of this blog posting makes you cringe (as should anything with the words IE 5.5+, at least when it comes to web design), then check the TwinHelix solution. It exploits the non-standard implementation of CSS “behaviors” developed by Microsoft for the Internet Explorer browser. The fix is a simple, non-JavaScript solution for [...]
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