A Peek at the boomsocket Skin

Developers | ColdFusion | Content Management System | BoomSocket

@ 2:30PM EST 6.20.2007

Even as propeller-heads we all know that it's more important to look good than to feel good! The DP team has been working hard on the look and feel of boomsocket and I wanted to give you all a chance to see some skin.

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BoomSocket Alpha Open to Developers

Developers | Digital Positions | Content Management System | BoomSocket

posted by: Ben Wakeman

@ 12:50PM EST 6.5.2007

Well my friends, my very patient friends, we have finally released an Alpha build of BoomSocket for the brave few of you to jump in and play with.

I apologize for the long delay in actually getting this thing off the ground, but we have been busier than ever with client production work and I have made all my developers crazy with the "yeah, that's good but add this one more thing and then we can release."

The result will hopefully be a huge boost in your enjoyment of developing web sites and a dramatic increase in your ability to build them more efficiently. The amount of time you used to have to spend doing the drudgery of admin tool creation, navigation build-out, content-assignment will diminish to a small blib on your radar, freeing you up to do the really cool stuff.

At this point the Alpha is only open to folks who request access. You can head over to boomsocket.com to sign up as an Alpha tester. We look forward to your feedback!

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We Finally Have a Name for Our Six Year Old

Developers | ColdFusion | Digital Positions | Content Management System | Open Source

posted by: Ben Wakeman

@ 5:03PM EST 4.10.2007

After an arduous amount of time spent brainstorming, strategizing, (drinking), and doodling with our friends at Abovo Marketing Group, we have finally re-branded our baby. The open source version of our rockin’ site management system, i3SiteTools is…

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>> Congratulations on finding a name. I'm sure a lot of people will be interested fitting this boomsocket into their sites when you finish that "just-one-more-feature" creep. - Cheyenne
>> Any idea of a release date at this point? Josen - Josen Ruiseco
>> I love it. It carries a fun-filled enthusiasm that makes me want to play with it (boom) plus the engineering hint that I will find it standardized and extensible (socket). Great job! - Michael Wilkes

ColdFusion Developer Needed for Landscaping Job

posted by: Ben Wakeman

@ 10:59AM EST 1.31.2007

Even if you are happy right now in your current ColdFusion position, you should read this job posting just to make your boss nervous.

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>> Man, that sure sounds like a fun job to have. For now, the commute from New Jersey would be a bit much. I should be headed back down south in a few months so I'll keep an eye pegged on your site for the next opening ;) Good luck with your search. - Dan Wilson
>> Dan... look us up anytime you are in town! Thanks for stopping by. - Ben
>> Damnit, Jim! Someone already used my "commute from far away state" line... *grumble* - George in SF - Fluffy Bananachunks
>> wow, this is right down the road. Not sure where there would be any horsies in midtown hotlanta. - mll
>> What is cold fusion again? - Jeff Haynie
>> Wow! What a neat profile. Makes me wish (momentarily) that I wasn't happily employed full time so I could pursue this. - Chris Mathison
>> Any chance of a remote develpoer or opening up a Jacksonville Office? I miss being in love woth my work... I miss being able to do something cool, and have co-workers actually think it's cool too. Your company sounds great. I am a huge fan of Farcry, I can deploy a farcry site for anything, so I will be watching BoomSocket closely to see what it has to offer. - Dave McGraw

Flex is a Gem for Mednikow Jewelers

Flash MX | Digital Positions | Flex | eCommerce | Clients

posted by: Ben Wakeman

@ 10:32AM EST 11.29.2006

We are proud to announce the launch of the new Mednikow Jewelry site. It was a wonderfully emersive opportunity for us to dig in and develop a sophisticated e-commerce application in Flex that truly serves the user.

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Re-Naming Our Baby

Digital Positions | i3SiteTools

posted by: Ben Wakeman

@ 10:21AM EST 11.8.2006

What's in a name? Apparently more than you would ever wish upon your worst enemy. Come along for the adventure as we fearlessly attempt to rebrand i3SiteTools.

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>> How ironic, Ben. Assurant used to be a client of mine! - Jon Czerwinski

Adobe MAX 2006 Begins

Developers | Adobe | Flex

posted by: Ben Wakeman

@ 4:00PM EST 10.23.2006

Viva Las Vega. I'm out in the desert at Adobe's annual MAX event and there's some amazing stuff on the horizon... let me tell you.

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Flex Your Layout Muscles

ActionScript | Flash MX | Adobe | Flex | Project Management

posted by: Ben Wakeman

@ 6:17PM EST 10.17.2006

Left to my own devices I will try to make a toaster using Flex --- it's just that cool. Here's my most recent idea for how to use Flex for short-cutting the painful process of HTML prototyping.

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>> Hotness. You are the 2nd company I've heard of that is utilizing Flex Builder 2 to create design oreinated content. That's just sick! Love it. - JesterXL

Our Developers are Certifiable

Developers | ColdFusion | Digital Positions | Macromedia

posted by: Ben Wakeman

@ 5:33PM EST 3.10.2006

This week the entire DP development team took the new Adobe Certification exams and passed with flying colors. There was of course a bit of sweating, the unavoidable gnashing of teeth and the obligatory pre-amble of disclaimers before we all hunkered down on March 9^th at the local testing center.

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Big Plans for Everyone

Developers | Rich Internet Applications | Digital Positions | Adobe | Flex

posted by: Ben Wakeman

@ 10:38AM EST 12.21.2005

So as the year comes to a close, we turn our attention to tying up loose ends, reflecting on the past year and looking forward to the opportunities that await. We have a dizzying array of projects spinning right now and big plans for everybody. Here's the digest...

Operation RIA

We have spent a lot of time in the past few months experimenting with the Flex 2.0 Alpha, Macromedia's (now Adobe) latest offering in the Rich Internet Application development arena. From what we have seen so far, it's an amazing tool for delivering the kind of powerful applications we build. We have built a wonderful RIA alternative for searching Amazon.com, complete with slider filtering on price and publication date and a toggle between image view and data view of the search results. Look for a link to demo the application in a future post from our new developer Darin Kohles.

We are also in development on a Flex 2.0 application that will allow users to easily search through thousands of loose diamonds and all of their many attributes to find the perfect one. In any new RIA, our mantra as always is "what would the user do?" By taking this user-centric approach, we are building applications that don't use cool tricks just because we can, but really make the technology serve the user experience.

i3SiteTools Beautification & Documentation

We are hard at work giving some overdue love and attention to our very own CMS, fixing little bugs and rethinking the flow of some of the tools. i3SiteTools is the engine that has driven the Content Management side of our business and we are excited about taking it to the next level in 2006! We are planning a new RIA dashboard that will give our users even easier access to the content on their site and puts all of the information they need at their fingertips including some traffic stats, a message queue and more.

Additionally, we are building out a new media-driven help document library. Using Adobe's Captivate, we are creating a series of narrated mini-movies to walk users through using all of the tools in i3SiteTools. This library accompanied by a robust new glossary of all things "webish" are part of our commitment to make owning and maintaining websites the best possible experience for all users.

D-P.com is Getting a Face-Lift

Yes, it is true, the cobbler's children often go shoeless. We are finally making the time to rework our own web site and have thrown the gauntlet down to launch by the end of January (2006 that is ;-)!

We have nearly killed each other in the planning phase --- everybody gets a little bit passionate about our beloved DP site and the grand vision of what it can be. But that's good, because nothing good ever came from apathy, and you can quote me on that! I figure the last one standing when the dust settles gets to actually build it! Apathy's lookin' better all the time.

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New Talent Needed

Developers | ColdFusion | CSS | Ajax | Digital Positions

posted by: Ben Wakeman

@ 11:51AM EST 10.7.2005

Digital Positions is growing again, and we need the right person to help us get to the next level. We are looking for an accomplished web developer with superior skills in JavaScript and CSS layouts.

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Busy, Busy, Busy

Developers | ColdFusion | CSS | Ajax | Digital Positions

posted by: Ben Wakeman

@ 3:09PM EST 9.7.2005

Batten down the hatches, the DP crew is heads down and crankin' out code. From AJAX apps to Flash Remoting forms and all points in between, we have been busy.

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Building the Moe's Nutritional Guide

ColdFusion | ActionScript | Rich Internet Applications

posted by: Ben Wakeman

@ 5:59PM EST 6.15.2005

Recently we built a Rich Internet Application" (RIA) for Moe's Southwest Grill. We wanted to build this nutritional guide application for maximum reuse and ease of maintenance, so our challenge was to create a completely modular codebase, using all of the tennants of proper Model View Controller architecture as it applies to a Flash application. Here's the whole enchilada...

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Why Does the World Need Another Blog?

Developers | Digital Positions

posted by: Ben Wakeman

@ 9:11AM EST 6.8.2005

You pretty much can't click anywhere on the web without running into blogs which cover an incredible range of topics, from the hopelessly inane to the wonderfully sublime and all points in between. People take pictures of the dinner they made from a can and write about their cat's sleeping habits, while other people chronicle their travels around the world or share breakthroughs in the fields of math, science or quantum physics. So what are we doing here?

In the true spirit of the Internet we simply want to share bits and bytes of the hard-earned lessons and wisdom we've acquired in our 10 years of building web sites in the hope that we can do our part in raising the bar of what a web site can do.

Our team will be posting on a wide range of subjects, some very technical in nature on everything from the latest advances in ColdFusion, ActionScript, Javacript, etc. and others with an eye towards business topics like search engine optimization and thought leadership.

We hope you will enjoy the blog and that our posts will make your life a little bit better, or at the very least answer some nagging issue you've had with the 3 pixel IE bug. We look forward to your comments!

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