Protect Your Company from Cybercrime, Data Breaches, and Hacker Attacks ARE YOU A SITTING DUCK? You, the CEO of a small business, are under attack. Right now, extremely dangerous and well-funded cybercrime rings in China, Russia, and the Ukraine are using sophisticated software systems to hack into thousands of small businesses like yours to steal […]
Read moreHow to always round up to the next 5 in Google Sheets
Google Sheets can make an excellent alternative to Microsoft Excel (though I do prefer Excel for certain tasks). While working in it today, I needed a set of numbers to always round up to the next 5, unless the number was already at a 5 or a 0. Here are some examples to show what I […]
Read morePlatform Security: .NET vs PHP
Website and Web Application security is a ubiquitous concern for our clients, and rightfully so. Often we hear or read opinions of clients and developers who tout one platform while deriding another. And certainly, it is incredibly important to know whether one platform is more secure than another! But is that actually the case? Is […]
Read moreWordPress Reference Comparison
WordPress Reference vs. Hookr.io When he finally launched it for public consumption (still in alpha, but working quite well), I was excited to get my hands dirty trying to break it for him. But other than a couple minor quibbles, the platform he built was solid, stable, and basically bug-free. Killer job, Chris! Then I […]
Read moreCritical Thinking: Beware of sloppy conclusions from cited research
A Little Background My formal training is steeped heavily in research. I can’t even begin to number the pages of research journal articles I had to read while working on my honors thesis in college. Yes, I graduated quite a few years ago, but the fundamental principles I learned from all of that research will […]
Read moreWeb Usability: Human Factors or Engineering Psychology
The term “usability” has been a well known website design/development buzzword for quite a few years. Go to any reputable Web shop’s website and you will almost certainly find some kind of reference to how they focus on usability. Words like “intuitive,” “user-centered,” and “human factors” are commonly employed to show that they will design your […]
Read moreAutomatically log out Members and Send to Login Page in Umbraco
Background One of our clients came to us the other day and requested that a password-protected area of their website be set up to automatically log out users from the password-protected area after 15 minutes of idleness. They were concerned that there might be a security risk to their site if users left their workstations while logged […]
Read moreCannot delete folder in Windows 7
I had a very strange problem on my PC lately where I couldn’t delete a folder (running Windows 7 Pro, SP 1). No matter what I tried to do, the file would not allow me to delete it. Instead, I kept getting a “Folder not found” error (or something to that effect). I tried to […]
Read moreUmbraco Desktop Media Uploader (DMU) Invalid Login Error
The Problem So your website is built on an older version of the Umbraco CMS. You find, though, that managing your media is a bit cumbersome, especially when you have a large number of files to manage. So you ask your Web developer if there is a better solution than the built-in Media manager. Thankfully, your […]
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