The answer, of course, depends on who you ask. A purple squirrel, according to Wikipedia, is a term used “to describe a job candidate with precisely the right education, set …

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It’s one thing to collect data. It’s another altogether to transform that data into intelligence the business can actually use. As companies realize the power of being able to query …

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What do you do here at RBN? I work as Director of Software Engineering.  I lead our team of programmers into the forays of web app development!  I spend time …

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Ready to dive into the Internet of Things (IoT), but don’t know where to start? [pullquote]Join us on Thursday, March 30, when our very own Patrick Delaney takes a short …

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Imagine migrating your AWS RDS databases running in EC2-Classic to a VPC—without taking them down or prohibiting writes for any length of time. What do you do? Spencer Thomas and …

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By Vitorrio Brooks One of the advantages of running your application on a mature public cloud, such as Amazon Web Services, is the built-in redundancy and high-availability provided by its …

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I’ve been working with credit card payment gateways as a web developer since 1997, when I built an e-commerce website for a small computer store. It’s a complex industry with …

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Scriptalicious’s Ajax.Autocompleter control is pretty cool. It allows a developer to add a drop-down auto-completion feature to an input box with one line of Javascript and a single div tag …

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I’ve been half-heartily blogging for a few years now. Every so often I’ll get the urge, write something, and then leave it untouched for months. I’d be loath to come …

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Well… it’s only been over a year since a last update. As you could probably guess, this is now yet another blog upon the Internet scrapheap. Truth be told, I …

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