I haven’t always been in Atlanta. Moving from Washington, DC in 2005, I had spent well over a decade there. When I first moved there in 1994, it seemed everyone I met was attached to a law firm, association/nonprofit, or the government. America Online had already been in existence since 1983 (I was shocked to just rediscover – Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aol), but by the mid-‘90s it had truly become the power player beating out Compuserve, Delphi, Prodigy, and many other pre-web p ...

As the Twitter hype continues…One of the stars of Twitter Ashton Kutcher is threatening to stop posting if Twitter moves forward on its plans for a TV show. I suppose that I understand where he is coming from since the people behind the show have stated that at the core it would “put ordinary people on the trails of celebrities”.  http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/may/27/ashton-kutcher-twitter-quit-threat Back in January, there was a series of articles putting its valuation at $250 ...

Recent rumblings have Facebook being offered a $200 million investment from a Russian investor and is now valued at $10 billion. Not sure what else to say on this one! http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124303553603348803.html ...

And change out some colors. I remember SharePoint 2003 when I would talk to developers about how much we can customize the user interface.  It really wasn’t much more than the above reality. As our design team works closely with our SharePoint development team with the MOSS 2007 platform, we continue to push further into interesting realms. Shortly after 2007 was released and we were working on our first project, we would get some grief for various rounded edge treatments. I often find myself ...

As software architect and developers, we try to adhere to some core principles and standards.  I was working with one of our new architects the other day and shared the following piece with him concerning the principle of Separation of Concerns. Quoting Wikipedia:   "In computer science, separation of concerns (SoC) is the process of breaking a computer program into distinct features that overlap in functionality as little as possible. A concern is any piece of interest or focus in a p ...

Just in time for Mother’s Day, there is another special news bulletin from CNNBC naming the Mother of the Year…it could be yours! http://news.cnnbcvideo.com. MoveOn.org with MomsRising.org leveraged the customizable video engine again with some entertaining results. ...

Northridge edged out some heavy hitters to take home “Most Effective Online Brand Experience Through Social Media” from the Atlanta Interactive Marketing Association for our MoveOn.org CNNBC customizable election video. We had previously been awarded a Silver Addy from the Atlanta Ad Club for this work as well.  It is amazing how much people just like to see their names in the action! See what I mean: http://www.cnnbcvideo.com ...