technology

If history has taught us anything (which, quite frankly, is questionable), it’s that the power of a good underdog should never be ignored. Time and time again, the “no one believed in us” card is applied to produce a shake-up at the top of a hierarchy.

Besides the obvious possibilities for a Drupal boom in 2010 (launch of Drupal 7), there are several other reasons that may spark an increase in popularity.

Government Interest

The fact that whitehouse.gov launched on Drupal was huge news in 2009, but with the recently published "Open Government Directive," the whitehouse site may be just the tip of the iceberg for Drupal.

Have you ever wondered if there’s a “best time” for getting in contact with those leads you receive from your website? If you’re not receiving leads through your website, that’s a whole different problem for discussion with Levelten's Internet Marketing department at another time. I’m talking about making contact with the individuals that are making inquires or are submitting for additional information from your company website.

Our production team recently made the switch from waterfall to agile. While there were some initial hurdles, it has proved to be a good move. But one of the biggest challenges we have using scrum in an agency environment is deciding who should be the product owner.

There are two camps: Client as Product Owner and Account Manager as Product Owner.

Client Camp

Just the other day my internship mentor, Colin Alsheimer of LevelTen Interactive, showed me a new app on his iPhone called Layar. Basically what I had to do was move his iPhone around the office and what I found blew my mind. The screen showed images of people Tweeting nearby in real time!

Everyone has heard of the prophetic predictions of Nostradamus (e.g., fall of the twin towers), and maybe of even ancients making prophecies as it relates to technology. Although these prophecies are intriguing, a topic more interesting to me is the flipside, technology being able to predict the future.

SnagIt 9 helps Microsoft users to capture, organize and share high-quality screen shots for presentations, blogs and documents. I just downloaded the newest version and I have become absolutely obsessed with this little gadget.

What’s the Obsession with SnagIt?

SnagIt! If you can see it, you can snag it. Here are just a few of the many different ways that make it easy to capture your screenshots.

A Web Server is a computer with special software to host web pages and web applications. Web server's traditional function has been to serve static HTML (and more recently XML) pages. As the world wide web has become more functional, i.e. e-commerce, dynamic content, and collaborative software, increasing emphasis is placed on a server's ability to host web applications.

Types of Web Servers:

Many different web servers are in use on the world wide web. Some of the more popular ones are:

Not that I need to rant about it, but I've become slightly addicted to twitter and much to my dismay something is technically wrong as always. At least this time it's not that damn flying whale.

When I was a kid, I couldn't get enough of the cartoon The Jetson's. I was fascinated with all of the gadgets, especially the robots. Rosie was exactly what I needed. A robot that would clean my room! That would have been awesome. Today, we have all kinds of different robots, but I find one in particular the most fascinating. This fascinating robot is powered by a heart muscle that came from a rat.