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New Student Classroom Management App – Kodiak Picker

We recently were contacted by a school in Kodiak Alaska to help them do a classroom management app. They had tried unsuccessfully several times to get someone to make this app for them, so we thought we'd take a crack at it. Overall it's a pretty simple app, but we're...

Newest App to Hit the Store…

by Sheryl

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 and give them a competitive advantage in the market. Inwest Title is...

Startup Weekend Ogden

by Sheryl

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 model: anyone is welcome to pitch their startup idea and receive...

New Product Release

by Sheryl

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 teacher training throughout the United States, Canada, and overseas. School...

Troubleshooting Disk Failures on a Linux Software RAID with LVM

by Mike

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 software RAID 5. When checking kernel messages, here is an example of...

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

by Mike

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: /root/.subversion/config Set the following: store-passwords = no store-auth-creds...

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

by Mike

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 help me remove the ugly white or colored edges from the foreground. Here...

Return JSONP with CakePHP

by Mike

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 JSONP is can be found here:...

Web browser text search

by Guru

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 following HTML. <div><div style="background-color:...

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

by Mike

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. Sometimes commits need to be done right away, so you merge them right...