A fully-interactive ecommerce site, Varsity Boot Company’s site allows the visitor to customize a pair of boots with their college logo, Greek affiliation, their name, leather selection, and many other options. All customization takes place in real-time with the use of AJAX and jQuery to create an easy-to-use and attractive customer experience. Options [...]

Another part of the FireFlie project, Searchlight gives musicians the ability to input a set of criteria (in an almost eHarmony way) for other musicians based on their location, dedication to forming a musical group, instruments, proficiency and other categories–and to then search the FireFlie database for like-minded cohorts with which to perform. There’s [...]

The FireFlie project is an ongoing effort to assist musicians, fans, and venues to link up with one another. Bands and musicians can easily set up their areas inside FireFlie, post their recordings, efforts, and members (with the now de riguer automatic connections to Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook), fans can browse groups and performing [...]

This is closely related to the post on code formatting.
Code can be readable, but still not easily understood. Maybe it reads well but is misleading. Maybe you took the time to pick a good name for that variable, but the way it’s used and what it means has changed, but the name hasn’t. That’s [...]

As an IT Professional, one of your most important responsibilities is to ensure that your environment is a secure one in terms of protection from known vulnerabilities. To many organizations, this often means just making sure patches are applied. That is necessary, but patching alone isn’t the complete answer, many problems are not resolved by [...]

From the department of redundancy department, IT coder division:
Duplication is probably the single, most important thing to banish from your code. Duplication can take several forms:
textual
This is the simplest and often the easiest to find. This is when you have sections of code that are identical or nearly so. This is often a result of [...]

Here you may read a quick list of operating systems and technologies with which I have real-world, production experience. For clarification and expansion, please contact me and I will be happy to go into more detail and offer case studies.

Have served as senior systems administrator in various environments over the last 20 years with [...]

I’ve been using MySQL since it became a mature DBMS, and therefore use it in virtually every project I execute. Here are a number of areas within MySQL that I have deep experience which prove useful in business, ecommerce, and web application design and execution. For clarification and expansion, please contact me and [...]

Sam Burtis, a noted and oft-recorded trombonist, tubist, composer, and arranger, has his own site, SamBurtis.com, on which he shares his decades of insight into the art and craft of playing brass instruments. In addition to his musical activities, Sam is an author of several books on the art of brass playing. He [...]

In addition to his personal blog, Mr. Burtis also expressed interest in a full-featured, easily managed web forum. The design, built on the industry-leading Simple Machines Forum software, incorporates a number of custom plugins and enhancements, as well as a completely original theme with rotating header images of Sam’s beloved New York City. [...]