Designing and Building an Environmentally Responsible Data Center
A new buzz word, “Green”, is on everyones tongue recently, which is the result of a growing trend all over the world. For years groups like Clean Air Watch…
Rails vs. Django: a Beginners Point of View
For an agile web developer two frameworks are available for quick and easy deployment of a new website: Ruby on Rails for the Ruby fans and Django for the…
Google: More Services, More Problems
Google came out with Street View which allows people to view a real image of the street address they are getting directions for on Google Maps. This is not…
3 Flaws in the Government RFP Process
Ive recently discovered Blair Ennss Win Without Pitching website (thanks to David Robinson of Birch Studio Graphics for pointing me to the fantastic FunctionFox seminar). The main theme of…
What Do Your Business Tags Say About Your Company?
Erics R&D project is HighTechCville, a website aimed at helping people identify technology communities of interest in the Charlottesville area. The engine behind the website pulls in information about…
The Importance of Virtualization and SaaS for the Future of IT
Two subjects have been the main focus of the IT business in the last couple of years, Green IT and Virtualization. The first one is ITs natural reaction to…
Vetbiz Conference Day 1
We are here at the National Veteran Small Business Conference for Day 1 of the three day conference. The agenda today focused mainly on legislative activities aimed at helping…
XUL Getting Started Guide
I recently was tasked with creating a Firefox add-on or extension for a client and here are some of the things I wish I had known before I began….
7 reasons why your airport needs its own website
This week I was at the AAAE Conference in New Orleans, showcasing the AeroWeb product that we have just released at OpenSource Connections. Everyone who saw our demo seemed…
Newport News, Virginia Goes Open Source
Recently, the Newport News, Virginia Open eGov system was released. Using the Plone content management system, the system is designed for governments to install, out of the box, a…
Deploying Ruby to DreamHost
Recently, I completed my first Ruby on Rails application, which you can see here. Its not a complex application, basically its a survey of political candidates with three data…
Semantic Web Technologies RDF and OWL
I had the pleasure of attending the Semantic Web Technologies RDF and OWL workshop with Bob DuCharme at the UVA New Horizons Conference. Bob is a well respected contributor…