Apps aren’t just for teens and commuters, anymore. Parents interested in raising bilingual children will be interested in a wide variety of applications designed to familiarize infants and children with phonyms and word association crucial to developing multi-linguistic aptitude. We’ve found a few that are sure to be entertaining for the young and, shall we...
Which mobile device will you buy for your loved ones this holiday season? It’s a tough call. Recent news reflects the release of Gingerbread and Android’s steady gain of market share. JR Raphael of Computerworld offers an optimistic analysis. The innate versatility of the Android OS makes it appealing to developers and consumers alike – especially...
Having detailed logs of how your services are being used is important, but sometimes it’s nice to have immediate notifications of critical events. Enter Notifo, the super-easy-to-use push notification service. We recently updated WP-Logs to support the Notifo service so you can now receive notices just about anywhere. We have some of ours going straight...
Your time is valuable. We’ll make this short. Let’s face it- the last thing we need is more useless information. The average user is heavily bombarded by digital data every day. Pop-ups, advertisements, and junk mail hedge in at every turn. It’s gotten to the point where instead of seeking information out, we just want...
When building a new application or plugin, sometimes its important to have detailed information about what actions are taking place. This can be crucial when testing APIs, hooks, and your users actions to make sure your design is having the desired effect. In the course of creating, testing, and debugging our work at Shockoe, we’ve...
The benefits of using Amazon S3 to store static resources is already well documented. It’s almost a no-brainer if you are building an app that hosts a lot of static files. We just converted an app that we’re working on to use S3 for all user uploads. It not only sped up our development time,...
Bloggers and social media gurus – step up! Shockoe.com is proud to help sponsor this year’s WordCamp! On October 16, WordCamp, a national touring conference dedicated to WordPress technology and users will pause in Glen Allen long enough for a single day of amazing stuff. From 8:30 AM until 3:00 PM in Glen Allen, attendees...
It is my pleasure to introduce a new mobile application to promote the easy use of Adobe software products- Suite Tips! At Shockoe.com we believe that information should be fast, accurate, and above all, accessible. That is why we designed Suite Tips, an innovative mobile easy-access tool for Adobe software users. The application is based...
Carpenter Consulting Group http://www.carpentercg.com Carpenter Consulting Group offers full-service civil design services, with a primary focus on wireless site development. Custom WordPress Plugins to magage Geolocation services with Bing maps, to display all projects in a map. Custom WordPress Plugins to handle a list of projects with their own imagery and description. Custom WordPress Plugins...
One of the major features to be introduced in WordPress 3 was the ability to create custom post types. Basically, this lets you recreate the ‘Posts’ tab with specific functionality in mind. For example, creating a portfolio with fields for project images and client information. At Shockoe, we are using this in an upcoming project...
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