Google’s new operating system, code named Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) promises to do many things in the realm of application development. Developers are rejoicing at the ability to develop one application that will work on both tablets and smart phones. Users can’t wait for the boost in phone performance and sleek new interface features. Electronics manufacturers and Cellular service providers are waiting with baited breath to finally be able to support an operating system that has a defined and scheduled release pattern...
Planning For Success: DFW WordPress Meetup Presentation
Apr 26 2010
On Saturday, Leia and I spoke at the DFW WordPress Meetup in Dallas. Our topic was “Planning for Success: Design Like a Pro.” The meta message was that all too often we are tempted to immediately move from idea to design by opening up Photoshop or scrolling through themes to pick your next look and feel. Instead, we recommended backing away from the tools and spend more time thinking…
We shared a portion of our methodology. It’s not rocket science. It’s really pretty basic stuff that you can apply to just about any project...
New 3D Features in Silverlight 3
Mar 20 2009
You may have heard the news that Silverlight 3 has entered a developer beta phase. This news was shared at MIX09 on Wednesday. We’ve been fortunate here at RD2 to have been participating in the Silverlight 3 early adopter program for the past couple of months.
What’s New?You can read about all of the new features on the official Silverlight 3 page. The two main reasons we’ve been involved in the new release are the 3D perspectives and the H.264 support. In this article I’ll discuss the 3D perspectives and leave the H.264 support for a later post.
3D PerspectiveSilverlight 3 makes it easy to transform objects on a 3D plane...
Introducing Multi-Site Management
Jul 2 2008
RD2 worked with StoneGate Senior Care on a content management solution requiring many websites to be deployed within one master website. The challenge, all of them need to have autonomy while using the same system for publishing and maintaining content.
We’ve done this sort of thing before, but for very large companies, developing within enterprise-class software rather than leveraging the power of open source. StoneGate wanted to be able to scale beyond 50 websites with one content publishing system. Drupal is a perfect fit, except for one important thing. There was no available mechanism for deploying multiple sites within one system that is managed and maintained from one central source...
WordPress VS Drupal
Nov 20 2006
We have implemented many blogs to date that use WordPress and have been very happy so far with the performance, feature set and flexibility of WordPress as a blog platform. Also, we have used WordPress successfully as a content management system for corporate web sites that do not have blogs. At the core of WordPress is a content management system. While it is used most commonly today for blogs, the fundamental attributes of a content management system can be found in WordPress...