by Robert Blackburn | Aug 17, 2018 | Featured, General, Projects
We are excited to see that a project we have been heavily involved with for over a year has made the news this week! Watch it here. It has been an amazing opportunity to be involved in the #OneBraveIdea and working with world leading physicians at BWH. Not only has...
by Robert Blackburn | May 15, 2013 | General, HTML5 & jQuery
A few years ago a colleague of mine and fellow developer, Craig Verrastro, invited his daughter’s music teacher to come present to my department. Why? Because he was seeing impaired, and we wanted the team to see what browsing the web (especially our own applications)...
by Robert Blackburn | Apr 15, 2013 | General, HTML5 & jQuery, Projects
When I was a teenager I had a job at Burger King. If you have never noticed it before, there is a large digital clock next to the drive through window, which tells the employee how long the cusotmer has been waiting for their order. Measuring drive through wait time...
by Robert Blackburn | Oct 15, 2012 | General, Java, Spring
This is a trick that I have used many times which I first learned about on Mkyong.com – one of my favorite Java/Spring/Hibernate resources. Just about any application will need to connect to external resources like databases, web services, file servers, and the like....
by Robert Blackburn | Oct 8, 2012 | General, Google API, Google Visualization
Back in June I posted a quick fix on how to Placing Google Chart Filters in Table Header. Since then I have continued to use Google’s table chart in a few projects – and have grown to find it a bit lacking. As I recently pointed out when responding to Saranya’s...
by Robert Blackburn | Oct 1, 2012 | General, Google API, Google Visualization
For over a week now I have been struggling with a rather tricky formatting issue with Google Visualization API. My server side code which was generating the JSON needed to put Date objects into a string format to be compatible with jQuery’s AJAX parsing. However the...
