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by Matthew Mombrea

  • Use your cell phone as a WiFi VOIP phone

    Posted Sep 11, 2013 - 12:00 am

    Does your home or office use a VOIP based phone system? Wouldn’t it be great if you could use your cell phone as a VOIP phone instead of running back and forth to your desk whenever the phone rings? It turns out that this can be a reality quite easily, provided you can wrangle the proper details from your IT folks.
    mobile VoIP, voip

  • When to use cloud platforms vs. dedicated servers

    Posted Nov 09, 2012 - 09:00 am

    A decent dedicated server can take you well beyond an initial launch for most companies but a small cloud instance may be cheaper in the short term. Here are some Pros and Cons to each to help with the decision.
    cloud computing, hosting

  • Adding keyboard shortcuts to your web application

    Posted Feb 15, 2013 - 09:00 am

    Keyboard shortcuts might seem kind of old school since they’re mainly associated with desktop applications, but bringing some basic shortcut functionality into your web application can easily enhance the user experience.
    JavaScript

  • Automatic conversion of web form submissions to AJAX with jQuery

    Posted Feb 27, 2013 - 09:00 am

    If you’ve got a data heavy web application, chances are you’re doing a lot of form posting. Here is a quick solution to automatically convert all of your full form posts into quick and user friendly AJAX posts.
    ajax, jquery

  • Choosing a virtualization strategy for general purpose web hosting

    Posted May 24, 2013 - 08:00 am

    The concept behind server virtualization is simple - you have a powerful piece of hardware that no single application or service can fully utilize, so you allocate many smaller servers (virtual machines) to run simultaneously on a single device.
    Hyper-V, virtualization

  • Creating a Twitter proxy for mobile development

    Posted Aug 21, 2013 - 12:00 am

    It’s been several months now since Twitter switched over to version 1.1 of the Twitter API. Headaches were expected, and headaches are being had. A primary cause of these headaches is the move to enforce OAuth for every API request, but a second culprit - rate limiting - is responsible for drastic restructuring of existing code.
    mobile apps, Twitter API

  • Discourse - A new type of forum

    Posted Apr 19, 2013 - 08:00 am

    I don’t know what it is, but people love them some forums. I’ve struggled with this phenomenon for my entire internet life and to this day I regularly debate the need for them on new projects, or the need for them at all for that matter. Recently however, a new forum system has emerged that threatens to change my view on the subject.
    Discourse, forum

  • How to build a drop down menu with CSS and HTML

    Posted Apr 26, 2013 - 08:00 am

    I’ve written recently about the common task of identifying the active menu item based on the current URL using jQuery and, in that same vein, I want to show how you can create a basic drop down menu using HTML and CSS.
    css, Dropdown

  • How to build a rack mounted server from scratch

    Posted May 10, 2013 - 08:00 am

    You’ll do all of the research yourself and you’ll buy every component individually. The chance for error is high. You might choose incompatible components, parts that don’t fit your chassis, or completely wrong equipment. But you’ll have the most control, the biggest bang for your buck, and the most fun/misery.
    hardware, server

  • How to build a rack mounted server from scratch - Part 2

    Posted Jul 12, 2013 - 12:00 am

    A few months ago I embarked on a journey to build an enterprise grade, rack mount server from scratch for our business. The project was a success on all accounts and we’re happily running a slew of virtual machines on the box today. That’s not to say I wouldn’t make some changes on the next build, which it so happens is being completed as we speak.
    datacenter, Server build
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