by Dave McKillen | Nov 11, 2015 | Gadgets 'n Gifts
So just how far have 3D printers come? We hear all sort of gimics; but maybe we are further along than we realized. The Glowforge 3D printer is in essence a 3D laser cutter meaning it doesn’t actually build blocks or lay down materials so we aren’t quite...
by Dave McKillen | Oct 20, 2015 | Case Studies, Custom PHP programming
Project Summary The Western Region Education Service Alliance (WRESA) is a collaborative that was created by WNC school systems in 1996-1997. All of the 18 school systems in Western North Carolina have been members of WRESA. In 2007, Dr. Jan Webster joined WRESA as...
by Dave McKillen | Sep 21, 2015 | Case Studies, Google Maps and Charts API
Project Summary: The goal of this project was to design and build an interactive Google Maps overlay directory and search functionality that displays store information on a searchable map. The biggest challenge was how we were going to implement the dynamic display of...
by Dave McKillen | Sep 21, 2015 | Case Studies, RNS and Escapia API programming
Project Summary: We were tasked with mastering and then building a vacation rental site that utilized the RNS API data feed. RNS stands for Rental Network Services (rental-network.com). Rental Network Software is a vacation rental software for property managers around...
by Dave McKillen | Sep 12, 2015 | Gadgets 'n Gifts
There seem to be several overly complicated solutions out there on how to use CrashPlan to backup an external drive over WIFI. So I thought I’d post a quick note on how I did it. I am using a small external RAID 1 server to backup my desktop data but wanted a...
