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…
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…
Weve been using RimuHosting.com`s VPS servers for a couple of small prototype style RoR applications that dont warrent the “full” treatment of their own dedicated servers in a clustered,…
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…
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….
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…
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…
PHP was one of the first languages that I learned when web design was my primary focus as a career. It seemed to be simple with plenty of examples…
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…
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…
Last week I decided to learn a bit more about .NET, and attended the relaunch of the Charlottesville .NET User Group who was featuring Geoff Snowman talking about Windows…
Last Thursday, as thunder pealed in the background, I turned the television on to the local NBC affiliate to see what was happening with the weather. As it turned…
