Warning. This is a personal rant There are two bills making their way through our Congress that are hotly debated: SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act). The bills are written to fight online trafficking of copyrighted wares. The issue with these bills is the seemingly broad...Continue Reading
If you’ve ever looked at a radar image of an oncoming storm (something we haven’t exactly seen a lot of lately in the South), you know that the deep reds and purples can be somewhat fearsome because they carry significant potential for damage. The radar method of displaying information is called...Continue Reading
At Red Clay, we have a lot of opportunities to do some really cool projects. Some of these you may have seen in our portfolio, but there are others that you may have interacted with and not been aware of. The other day I was reminded by Yancey about a past project of ours… the free Chick-fil-A coupons...Continue Reading
A couple years ago Google released a few search tools to help users find more relevant information faster. Rich snippets were a way site owners could split up their information into smaller chunks for a search engine to understand. The search engine in turn can use this extended information to serve...Continue Reading
In my last blog, I gave some general front end security guidelines for developers. Today, I’m going to focus on what you can do as a user can do to increase your online security. As a user, it is all about passwords. I like starting out at Wikipedia since they have a really good article on...Continue Reading
In this day and age passwords are everywhere. Email, ATMs, banks, facebook, blogs; they all have them and unfortunately they are all under attack. Passwords, and in a larger sense authentication, has been around for a long time. They can be traced back to ancient guards using passwords to determine...Continue Reading
I recently had to setup some rewrite rules for a website using Apache’s mod_rewrite. Most of our sites are on shared servers so I can just upload that .htaccess file and be done, but every now and then I’m on a new dedicated server where some things just aren’t setup correctly. I’m...Continue Reading
This month has seen a flurry of activity in the browser market. Chrome 10 was released earlier this month, IE9 last week and Firefox 4 this week. As a web developer, I’m pretty keen to look at the latest releases of software not only for my work, but for home use as well. IE9 has been of particular...Continue Reading
When we first started Red Clay Interactive in 2000, we instantly embraced all of our employees having dual monitors. We knew from personal experience the cost to productivity ratio was definitely in our favor by embracing this setup. So why aren’t dual monitors more popular? The first issue is productivity....Continue Reading