We Helped Make News with Innovation Stopping Heart Disease

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...

Adaptive Website Made Easy

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)...

Quick and easy performance timing for your HTML5 page

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...

Secure your Java Spring app with PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer

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....

Google Visualization’s table charts lacking?

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...

Solution to Google Visualization API’s incompatible JSON date format

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...