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Mobile Applications

One topic that continues to intrigue the world is mobile, and with that brings mobile applications.  This post is meant to give a brief overview of the mobile realm, some of the ways in which applications can live in that … Continue reading

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UltraEdit – won’t connect via FTP

With the switch to lightedge this morning as a new internet service provider for the Gazette – we ran into a little glitch in connecting via FTP to the webservers. Although we were easily able to connect to the servers … Continue reading

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Interesting way to promote internally

I was checking out a story on my hometown high school football team (the Solon Spartans of Solon, Iowa – they rock) and as I finished reading noticed a very cool promotion that caught my eye: It is just a … Continue reading

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Welcome to learning@gazlab

One of things we want to promote is more learning about the web and web based tools in media companies.  We have setup this blog to gather “best practice” techniques and serve as a guide for nifty things in web. … Continue reading

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OAS – Banner not showing up

WebDev has a great little plugin Matt T wrote prior to his departure which allows much of the OAS administration to be handled from the content/program/product team levels.  Which is great – when it works.  I am going to step … Continue reading

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Debuging the Helios calendar

It was the best of calendars – it was the worst of calendars.  But – it is our calendar. Unfortunately or fortunately, the helios calendar is popular.  And sometimes – it doesn’t really play nice. Today brought up an example … Continue reading

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Slides from our WordPress intro class

Image by l0ckergn0me via Flickr We’ll all trying to cross train at Gazette Communications.  WebDev is no exception.  Our compadres in AppDev were looking to learn a bit more about WordPress – so we put together an informal training slide … Continue reading

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www, domain names and DNS – what does it all mean?

Image via Wikipedia One of our co-workers sent a question to us this morning about the “www” in front of a domain name.  Here is the question: Hi Tom, wanted to get your opinion on something… J http://m.ourweb.com directs to … Continue reading

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