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Over the years, I have used a variety of analytics programs to keep track of website traffic. From Google Analytics to Microsoft adCenter Analytics to OneStat, they’re all the same. Since last week, however, I’ve been lucky enough to be able
The self executing module pattern. For example we have something like this (edited for brevity): var Journal = (function() { // Private variables and methods go here return { init: function() { // Setup some stuff }, myFancyPublicMethod: function() {
If you have ever used Google Charts before you have probably used the shape markers… …I wanted shape markers in flot to diplay alerts on certain data points in my graphs, something I couldn’t find support for. After the jump
Dealing with ajax has become so easy and high-level that it is pretty easy to forget about the details. A nice habit to get into when dealing with an ajax-heavy frontend is to manage the event listeners and connections that
Internet Explorer integration is by far my least favorite part of developing web applications. I had this nice little java applet that was working fine in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, etc. (basically WebKit and Mozilla browsers) but would annoyingly sit
IBM is now officially providing cloud computing infrastructure services and will wraps up the beta phase on June 30. The IBM Cloud is essentially a self-service portal that allows subscribers to access virtual machines and configure storage operating systems, middleware
Michael Blechar, vice president in Gartner’s Applications Architecture Research division, just posted his thoughts on Agile development, a development method we at ELC prefer to achieve superior results. Blechar’s post go back to a recently published Gartner research notes entitled “Agile Development: What’s
McAfee announced its first cloud-based malware protection software. Called “SaaS Web Protection” the software promises to offer traditional reporting and protection capabilities malware, spam, trojans and other Internet-borne threats. However, there is no local installation required. McAfee’s approach appears to
VMware has just announced a new version of its virtualization platform vSphere. It may not be too surprising that the new version 4.1 is introduced with a focus on cloud computing abilities and benefits, but it is remarkable nevertheless. VMware
We have been proponents of Amazon’s EC2 service from the very beginning and – warning: shameless self-promotion – have built some pretty impressive applications on top of it. Check out the Sweety High social networking site, for example. Now you