Today, platform upgrades are coming in full versions every 12 to 18 months. How do organizations of any type manage this constantly evolving web world? This is a question that often comes up for many people and it's hard to understand what the value of continually upgrading that can sometimes result in a rewrite of custom functionality is.

If you have not already heard about Cloud Foundry, it is a recently hot and upcoming Open Platform as a Service project that allows for easy application deployment and scaling. The project is sponsored by VMware and has a hosted solution, which is currently in beta testing, found at cloudfoundry.com. Thanks to AppFog, PHP support was recently added to Cloud Foundry. With this additional support, Cloud Foundry is truly becoming a well rounded Platform which can support a NoOps approach to application deployment.

Regardless of the type of contract you have with your web development firm, we all want the same thing, getting the most for our money. Not surprisingly, Unleashed Technologies wants you to get the most for your money, too. We want you to capitalize on our services.

In this post, I’ll provide several tips on how to capitalize on your web development firm’s expertise, whether that is phone calls, brainstorming website enhancements, or keeping your site current. It all comes down to “billable hours”, right? Regardless of contract type, Time and Materials or Fixed Price, both are based on the number of hours worked or estimated.

PHP has been relatively unchanged since the 5.3.0 release in July 2009. Since then we've seen several bug fixes and security enhancements, as well as end-of-support for 5.2, but nothing really new to enhance the popular open-source language. Version 5.4.0, which was released this month, changed that.

Google Chrome is my favorite browser for frontend development and debugging. The built-in developer tools are fantastic and easy-to-use. But Chrome has some other less-obvious features that can make development a breeze.

The “Social Media” module for the Drupal 7 platform is a great tool for website admins to take full advantage of social network integration. It helps connect your website with social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, digg, Linked In, and Google+, just to name a few. Lending you total control over commanding your centralized hub of profile information as well as powerful options for utilizing widgets and plug-ins such as follow, like, and share buttons, it is easy to see why it has its advantages. Follow me on a quick walk-through to get started using this powerful tool today!

Reading magazine articles on the web is different than delivering content in a print format. By addressing this simple fact upfront, magazines have an opportunity to still provide a unique experience on the web and other digital delivery platforms.

The very restricitions of a magazine are what make it possible to uniquely tailor each article. From the page count, to the maximum amount of artices allowed and the pliability of a static delivery mechanism magazines truly provide a unique experiece to every article in the magazine. But what happens when publishers lose control in the ways people read their content? When restrictions leveraged as advantage are removed?

The answer usually starts with a substantial amount if internal arguements from editors. Very poor delivery of your content online will degrade the value of it and not keep the attention of your audience. As a key challenge many magazine publishers also struggle with an effective way of getting their content online without consuming many many hours and assigning staff directly to the process.

It's too early to say, but the way things are heading I'd say a resounding yes. E-readers and tablets can grab new issues of magazines and charge accounts with little involvement from a user. They just turn on their device and presto! A new issue of The New Yorker is downloaded instantly without even raising a finger. It's a win-win situation for both publishers and readers. There is less overhead for the publishers, and the readers get the magazine they want on the day of publication. No longer waiting for deliveries, no longer tipping pesky paperboys. This is the wave of the future.

Once again we are witnessing the game change before our eyes. Whether you are a web designer or a web developer, you can't help but get excited when you consider the possibilities of HTML 5. From advanced animations and 3d effects to data presentation and interactive application interfaces, it's no surprise companies like Adobe © are putting heavy focus on developing new concepts and powerful tools to command this new weapon of mass attraction. Will HTML5 Replace FLASH?