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Yes, the Boise Office has a Website…now…
on May 15th, 2008 in Boise Office by Aaron Day | No CommentsFinally, a Website for our Boise office! Long under the oppressive yokes of the Seattle tyranny, our Boise team has risen from the ashes like the Phoenix reborn! Ok, ok, it’s not that bad — we’ve just been waiting to have some time between projects to actually build something for…
Reenter Torn Pixel 6
on May 16th, 2008 in Programming Goodness by TheHahn | 1 CommentInternet Explorer 6 anagram. I’m going to have to decide now if I should provide a daily rant about the browser now or after I exhaust random musings about Coldfusion and helpful CSS snippets. If I start posting reminders to myself about CSS behavior I think myself and those on…
Peak Systems Boise Design Portfolio!
on May 20th, 2008 in Boise Office, Design Goodness by Ironman | No CommentsWe’ve launched our design portfolio, complete with project descriptions and plenty of eye candy! Check it out!
Every little bit helps
on May 21st, 2008 in Marketing Goodness, Tips by Aaron Day | No CommentsWhen it comes to Internet marketing, Google page rank is paramount to people finding you. One of the best ways to get a high page rank is to have relevant sites linking to yours. Since we’re a Web Design company, we searched out Web Designer directories that would list us. Since…
Google Analytics is easy to set up and worth every second
on May 21st, 2008 in Marketing Goodness, Programming Goodness, Tips by Ironman | 1 CommentI don’t know why anyone would not have Google Analytics set up on their website. It’s one of the best website statistic packages out there, is constantly being improved upon and is FREE! Yes, Google rocks the house again. So, as I’m adding Google Analytics to this site, I’ll share…
Stop SQL Injection
on May 28th, 2008 in Programming Goodness by dantheman | No CommentsWhen using Cold Fusion with dynamic forms that feed a SQL query, it is always a good idea to use the <cfqueryparam> tag to help stop sql injection. SQL injection is a technique that exploits a security vulnerability occurring in the database layer of an application. The vulnerability is present…
Good news! (with a hitch)
on June 26th, 2008 in Design Goodness, Programming Goodness by TheHahn | No CommentsFirefox 3 was officially released! I was in Honduras and installing that was one of the first things I did upon booting the computer… then downloaded Coldplay from Amazon. So it’s wonderful not dealing with the memory problem anymore and the speed increase. My work computer would barf every time…
We can’t stay here, this is hack country
on June 30th, 2008 in Boise Office by TheHahn | Comments OffIn the infinite hell that is developing for Internet Explorer 6, I have gotten rather good at creating CSS that doesn’t use browser specific code (holly hack, asterisk, conditional logic, !important, child nodes, etc). There are a few exceptions in the instance of actual bugs, not just loose interpretations of…
eCommerce Solutions
on December 4th, 2008 in Boise Office, Marketing Goodness, Programming Goodness by Ironman | No CommentsAre you wanting to sell your products & services online? We are eCommerce specialists and can create a secure, usable website for whatever needs that you have from just a few items to a huge inventory of cross-related products. We have several shopping cart solutions and can customize or even…
Lessons Learned
on December 12th, 2008 in Programming Goodness, Tips by TheHahn | No CommentsI have no way of testing IE7. Certain restrictions apply that force me to do dev work on a remote box. Today that fact made my life hell. Random LI tags were not displaying. This worked fine on every browser I had access to. Problem was that my list items…