Introducing the BlueBox Blog Network

23 May 2011 - Posted by The BlueBox under BlueBox Blogs.

So, what is the BlueBox Blog Network? It is a collection of BlueBox staff blogs. You can find links to the blogs at the bottom of the LHS column. Our staff take part in a weekly blogging process that is supposed to contribute to our internal "sharpening of the axe" process, which is a weekly discipline to put 2-3 hours into "fixing stuff" rather than continuing week after week with a blunter and blunter axe. We are also keen to see it work as a way to share BlueBox knowledge from a personal perspective. Once a week we shall be sharing a summary of the posts here just for you.

Access to and understanding BlueBox2.0 bbsetting_'s

Underlying the BB2.0 framework is a powerful set of settings, known as the bbsettings. These are configurations which allow the system administrator to change the behaviour of BB2.0 modules without needing to apply any code.

Read More... by Paul on BlueBox2.0 Thoughts.

Cloud Busting

The still very fresh IT nightmare of Amazon’s cloud outage, that has pretty much rocked the worlds confidence and, dare I say, hope in cloud computing. Even the IT professionals that I have spoken to that should best understand and support cloud technology seem to be walking around with a stunned expression on their faces having realised that what they had hoped for from the cloud, and how they had hoped it worked have turned out to be a fairytail, and that the reality is that the cloud doesn’t work they way they thought it did.

Read More... by Wayne on The Blue Box Geek Guide.

Awesome Ajax forms in BlueBox2.0

So why are Ajax forms in BlueBox2.0 awesome? Well mainly because you can call Ajax quite easily. This is quite useful on forms if you would like to give the user a response immediately after they have clicked the submit button.

Read More... by Tyron on A BlueBox Web Developer.

To Flash or not to Flash?

Ok lets get down to the glitz and glamour! Personally I believe flash should be your last resort when designing your website, why you may ask?

Read More... by Sarah on Fedora Corner.

Form Validation

At some point as a developer we have to do some sort of form validation, on both user and database side, I generally use JavaScript for checking if the user is inputting data in the correct fields and if formatting is correct, that's all good, but what if you need to check if the user being added to the system is a unique to the system?

Read More... by Kyle on Script Corner.

Publishing: First Principles

In this post I will be focussing on the fundamentals of content management in BB2 using the content system provided with the publishing module.

Read More... by James on The Blue Blocks.

How can you expect someone...

How can you expect someone to get a good day’s work if they are interrupted all day?

Read More... by Quintin on Focus...