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Newest App to Hit the Store…

We just finished our latest iOS app for a longtime client, Inwest Title. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/inwest-title/id711322966?mt=8 The app is designed to enhance their current product offerings...

Startup Weekend Ogden

We decided to take our team to Startup Weekend Ogden in November. According to https://ogden.startupweekend.org/, the event is described as follows: "All Startup Weekend events follow the same basic...

New Product Release

We have been working with School Improvement Network on enhancing their line of educational products for the last few months. They offer a wide range of tools for professional development and...

Troubleshooting Disk Failures on a Linux Software RAID with LVM

The following describes a failure of a drive I had on Ubuntu Linux with a Linux software RAID 5 volume with LVM, how I diagnosed it, and how I went about fixing it. The server had 4 2TB drives in...

Keep command-line Subversion client (svn) from saving credentials

If you share a server with multiple users, you may find yourself committing as root. In that case, it's helpful if you can keep svn from saving credentials. All you have to do is edit:...

Separating a foreground object from its background using GIMP’s Color to Alpha feature

Recently I was trying to separate a foreground image from its background so I could put the image on a new background of a completely different color. There is a GIMP tutorial, but it failed to...

Return JSONP with CakePHP

Here's a nice way to turn on JSONP for CakePHP. JSONP, or JSON with padding, is necessary when you want to include JSON from a site different than the one you're on. A good explanation for what...

Web browser text search

So I am working on a project where I have to search some HTML documents for a possible text string. This lead me to an interesting find in how browsers do searching on text. Let's look at the...

Find out what Subversion commits haven’t been merged to stable

We frequently use Subversion for version control, and use /trunk to commit all code in active development and merge code to a stable branch that represents what is currently on a production server....