New Joomla 1.6 Pushes Enterprise Level Features

The new version of the popular Joomla Content Management System (CMS) was released early last week and has already reached over 115k in downloads. 1.6 has been in the making for some time and earlier beta versions have been tested over the last few month. The first release candidate (RC1) was made available for download on December 14th, 2010. ...

January 18, 2011 · 2 min · 349 words · icarnaghan

Get the Latest on ColdFusion at CFHour

One of the challenges of having a long commute to work is finding new and interesting ways to make the morning and evening drives more interesting. Over the last year I have found the perfect answer by subscribing to podcasts that I am interested in, which have also served to advance my own personal development and education. ...

January 14, 2011 · 2 min · 388 words · icarnaghan

MySpace More Layoffs and Reflecting on What Went Wrong

Last July, Inside the Webb reported on new changes coming to MySpace in an effort to streamline the overall design of the social networking giant. As reported at the time, the changes were long overdue, however overhauling such a large organization was no easy task. ...

January 12, 2011 · 3 min · 442 words · icarnaghan

Firefox 3.6 Released

Mozilla has just released their latest version of the popular web browser Firefox. The new version has been significantly improved making it 20% faster than the previous version. ...

January 21, 2010 · 1 min · 80 words · Jake

Northern Ireland Dating Site Redesign

NIDating is a free Northern Ireland Dating and matching personals service for local singles from Belfast to all other regions across the province. The site also caters to other singles throughout the rest of the UK and Ireland. ...

December 30, 2009 · 1 min · 182 words · icarnaghan

Interview with a Digg.com Software Engineer Kurt Wilms

As a web designer myself, I have found that other web designers I talk to always have favorite websites they go to for inspiration. Not saying they want to copy a specific website, but there are just some site’s that “stick” and really inspire you to create web designs. ...

November 2, 2009 · 6 min · 1084 words · Jake

Interview with ThisWebHost - An Impressive new Web Hosting Company

Finding a decent web hosting company today is difficult. So many companies overprice, can’t keep uptime promises, have horrible support, or offer you barely any space to store your site’s files and content. The few that have shown promise in the past are some of my favorites: Hostgator, Dreamhost, Bluehost, etc. However as I was browsing the web one night (like always) I ran into a great looking hosting company, This*. ...

October 24, 2009 · 4 min · 848 words · Jake

Mobile Device Applications from a Development Perspective

Limitations and opportunities explored Mobile devices have many positive aspects including opening up networking channels and increasing the accessibility of information, but as with any new technology, potential pitfalls must be researched, remedied and cautiously provided for. This literature review discusses several potential pitfalls of mobile technologies as well as potential opportunities faced by developers of software as well as mobile device manufacturers. More specifically, several themes are highlighted through existing literature on areas concerned with the development of mobile applications. These themes include context awareness, mobile security, usability and accessibility. By focusing on these themes and researching the literature available, the developer will be better equipped to face the challenges and opportunities ahead in order to create practical and usable applications. ...

October 22, 2009 · 13 min · 2560 words · icarnaghan

Blue Ridge Mountain Exchange

The Blue Ridge Mountain Exchange™ (BRME) is a non-profit membership corporation that is implementing a regional complementary currency for the Roanoke, Virginia, area. ...

October 15, 2009 · 1 min · 164 words · icarnaghan

Interview with Adobe's Primary Developer of Rich Internet Applications Mark Anders

Mark Anders is a senior principal scientist at Adobe Systems, and one of his core responsibilities is to make Flash the platform for building the next generation of rich internet applications. Prior to Adobe’s acquisition of Macromedia, Anders started and led the Flex Builder Team, but he is probably best known for his work at Microsoft, where during a decade-long career he led the creation of ASP.NET. ...

July 6, 2009 · 6 min · 1076 words · Jake