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This morning, as some of you know, I was on a panel named The State of Contextual Advertising: USA vs. Global Trends, Strategic Overview and Emerging Trends ...

Google has just released what appears to be their entire library of JavaScript packages that they've used across all of their web applications (Gmail, Google Maps, Google Docs) to keep a common look and feel and provide a consistant cross-browser experience ...

As many of you know, RustyBrick had a Halloween contest and a PollDaddy poll was set up in order to vote for the winner. It was going to be a tough race. First of all, Mabe had an outstanding satyr costume. Both Jimmy and Joe submitted adorable shots of their children all dressed up ...

Image credit: TwisterMc on flickr A few of us on the RustyBrick team dressed up for Halloween, which is tomorrow. We figured, we run a small contest. Vote below for your favorite Halloween costume and the winner will get a $50 iTunes gift card. Note, we did allow kids to be added to this bunch ...

Image credit: RustyBrick on flickr Twitter has been the craze over the last year or two. Yes, of course, RustyBrick is on Twitter @rustybrick, we have been since Mar 11, 2007. We have also had an impersonator, where someone was pretending to be us ...

var $j = jQuery.noConflict(); Prototype vs jQueryBefore I joined RustyBrick I had been coding basic JavaScript functionality into websites mostly "by hand", in other words, without using a well defined third party package. The exception is the Yahoo ...

Image credit: RustyBrick on flickr Barry recently ordered the Verizon Wireless MiFi wireless router and mobile broadband device. In fact, he documented the first MiFi speed tests in Suffern, New York ...

Image credit: EideMontana on flickr With the popularity of our iPhone Apps and having to trouble shoot issues with client web sites and emails, we on occasion need to offer tech support, on some level ...

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Image credit: Nautical on flickr Not all the phone calls I get are as enjoyable as listening to new ideas. As you know, we get tons of calls from places like India to outsource of web development to them - we don't do it ...

Being a software developer yields tons of rewarding side effects ...

RustyBrick is in the business of building out ideas into web applications, software, design and apps. That is what we do throughout the whole process, from the initial sales process to the process of building out the idea into a reality ...

There is something to be said about my parent's ingenuity, they did a good job naming me. There are only a couple of other people online that share my first name. I have been "blogging" since before the term existed and nowadays my first name is also a domain name ...

Image credit: leatherprince on flickr I was happy to see my first shareware app, MyZip, show up on a serialz list only weeks after release. It showed that my app was worth stealing. What I was not prepared for what the immediate impact it had on business. Literally the money stopped coming in ...