The Launching of Hawkeye Tweets

There is no mistaking the fact that I am a HUGE Iowa Hawkeye Nerd. If you hadn't noticed, two of the last three sites launched by Brice Cheddarn Development have been Hawkeye related. Hawkapalooza was a pro-bono website put together to help a student organization at the University of Iowa. NILE was put together for a client to help him promote his novel.

Hawkeye Tweets is personal project to support my favorite team. It was inspired by the work of colleagues, who put together Suns Tweets and Cards Tweets as a way to use Twitter in support of their teams. I took the same concept and applied it to the Iowa Hawkeyes.

With the help of justSignal, the same technology used on Suns Tweets and Cards Tweets, I was able to put this site together in one massive all night, Monster-fueled hacking session. Hawkeye Tweets uses the justSignal Twitter Widget to pull in the streaming tweets and ColdFusion to power the backend and other ancillary components. ColdFusion will be used more heavily as the site expands.

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The Launching of Nile Kinnick

Nile Kinnick played football at the University of Iowa in the late 1930s.  He went on to break many Iowa Hawkeye football records on his way to winning the 1939 Heisman Trophy. But there was more to Nile Kinnick than just football.  And Tom Lidd did an excellent job of telling the full story in his book NILE.

Having discovered this novel one weekend while doing research, I was quick to purchase it. I also wrote a blog post about it on the Iowa Hawkeyes Blog. In that post, I made an open offer to help the author promote and sell the book. As luck should have it, Tom was a reader of the blog and sent me an email stating an interest in my offer.

Over the next several months, Tom and I exchanged several emails and ideas back and forth on how to promote his book. Th overall goal is to have the book turned into a screenplay, so having a web presence could only help acheive that goal. And believe me, this novel will make a fantastic movie.

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The Launching of Mooney, Wright & Moore, PLLC

The nerds have been working hard for our clients lately, and finally some results are starting to show. Over the weekend, we launched the new website for the law office of Mooney, Wright & Moore, PLLC.

Mooney, Wright & Moore, PLLC is a law firm in Phoenix, Arizona focused on state and local tax controversies. It is a small firm with some very big clients and a very impressive list of representative cases. The attorneys were previously partners in a large corporate law firm, but decided to start their own a few years ago.

Since branching out on their own, they have had just a very basic website in place compliments of GoDaddy's Website Tonight. Realizing that this was not doing the best job of representing their firm, they contacted us about constructing them a quality website. And we gladly accepted the task.

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Update to Business Mango Theme

Over the weekend, we made some updates to the recently released Business Mango theme. After looking at some of the themes put together by Visual28, we realized we could be doing things better. We were using <cfinclude> files when we should have been using the custom <template> tags. So, with this we needed to add in a little code to the sidebar, footer and header files.

While making these changes, we also started to use <cfsilent> around the import tags in theme files. <cfsilent> suppresses output produced by CFML within a tag's scope, the most common output being unneeded white space. This just helps to keep things clean.

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