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Rapid Application Development in Django: Scoreboard

Django is an open-source web framework acclaimed for it’s seamless, no-nonsense approach to web development. Widely touted as the “framework for perfectionists with deadlines,” Django helps streamline...

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The Power of Social Media Marketing

The emergence of Web 2.0 technology opened a new door in advertising. Before, virtually all of a company’s marketing had to be a one-way message from the business to consumers. But the advent of social...

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Budget vs. Timeline

Custom development is not easy and estimating what’s involved to get the job done is not black and white. But naturally, before you start on a project you want to know how much it is going to cost and...

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3 things to look for in a great client

Just like your prospects are interviewing your firm to determine if you are going to be a great vendor or partner, you should also interview them to see if they will be a great fit for your team. We’ve...

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Price Modeling of ‘Daily Deals’ for Small Businesses

Jay Goltz, in a November 2010 editorial for the Small Business section of the New York Times, basically encapsulated my feelings about the Groupon phenomenon from a small business marketing...

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How To: Survive A Technical Industry When You’re The Creative Type

At one point or another, all of us have been the “New Hire”. When you’re in high school and college, it isn’t such a big deal, as you’re typically working in high-turnover jobs:  movie theaters,...

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We’re in the Cloud!

ProAce.com was recently moved to Rackspace Cloud Hosting. The transition was smooth and the service has been working great. Cloud hosting will continue to expand dramatically as we move forward, but...

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A Happy Team is a Happy Client

Personal History—Accounting and Sales I have worked in various industries and positions throughout my career, each worlds apart, each requiring different mentalities and mindsets.  When I began my...

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The Third Mobile Ecosystem

The current smartphone landscape has 2 major players and several smaller options competing for customers’ attention.  Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS operating systems offer users 2 very different...

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Create or modify a Linux user

Need to add a user to your Linux server? Maybe change a password? Here are a few basic commands you’ll need. relevant links: useradd passwd usermod groups # Create a user with a home…

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Building Software: Versioning and Compilation

The first goal of our build server is to version and compile our code.  Versioning is an important step because the version number is how you identify one build versus another build.  This comes in...

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Working with Partials in FubuMVC

Today I was working on getting a partial view working properly in FubuMVC and started trying stumbling through it, very unsuccessfully. I ended up reaching out to Joshua Arnold for help with it. I’d...

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ProAce celebrates its 6th Anniversary

November of 2010 marks the 6th anniversary of ProAce as a company. Our fist office was only about 1,000 sqf and our team consisted of four members if you count Max – a tiny malti-poo. This has been a...

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Our Top Technology Trends for 2011

It’s the time of year when the internet goes crazy with top ten lists of predictions for the upcoming year. Well we take a different approach. As a custom software development house, we are exposed to...

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Internet Explorer 9 Cometh

Microsoft released Internet Explorer 9 to the world last night and they were kind enough to invite us to the launch party and press event.  Who knew 3 years ago that we would ever be excited for a new…

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A few comments following SxSW Interactive 2011

I have attended every SxSW Interactive Conference for the last five years. The interactive portion of the conference is a big gathering of software people, interactive marketers, gamers, etc. that come...

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Restore a Deleted File in Git

Today I found out that we deleted a file in one of our projects that we actually needed.  We deleted it a few weeks ago and therefore I had no idea what commit it was a part of or how…

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Spelling Failure is Not an Option

The Internet is indeed the great equalizer. In removing the middle man in publishing, we’ve seen record labels crumble, bloggers get six figure book deals and more cute kitten videos than America’s...

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Getting Started with HTML5

HTML5 is a group of standards that was developed to succeed HTML 4.  The HTML 4.0 spec was finalized in 1998 and since then the web has evolved to require many features that HTML 4 was not designed to…

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