The Honey House Buzz

Honey House Web Designs Instrumental in Online Pathology Slide Collection

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 06:59:00 -0600

Aiken, SC ? February 16, 2011 Honey House Web Designs announces today the completion and rollout of a website containing the historical digital archive of Dr. Juan Rosai's pathology slide collection. The Juan Rosai Collection of Surgical Pathology Seminars contains almost 20,000 slides from over 1400 pathology seminars spanning pathology research and diagnosis from the 1940s through today. www.RosaiCollection.org allows visitors to search and view high resolution slides, pathology case information, and historical documentation from the past 60 years of Dr. Rosai's pathology work. The project was sponsored jointly by the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) and Aperio Technologies, Inc. at no cost to the pathology community. The process of scanning slides, documentation, and developing the website has been underway for the last 10 months. The collection and resulting website will be highlighted at the USCAP's 100th Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, February 26-March 4, 2011. Workstations with the website will also be available for interactive use in the conference's exhibit halls. Dr. Juan Rosai is the Director of the International Center of Oncologic Pathology Consultation Center at the Centro Diagnostico Italiano, in Milan, Italy, and Consultant Pathologist at Genzyme Genetics in New York. Dr. Rosai is author of the pathology textbook, Rosai and Ackerman's Surgical Pathologyover 300 articles, reviews, and essays. Honey House Web Designs, LLC is among the leading web design firms in the Aiken-Augusta area, specializing in innovative, interactive web sites in all areas of business.

Adobe ConnectNow Fail --> Operator Error?

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:09:00 -0600

Ever have one of these days? For some reason, while demo'ing a web conference, my Adobe Connect Now created a screen capture endless reflection of itself. Bizarro, but very cool.

Happy New Year!

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 14:22:00 -0600

In 2011, I resolve to:

Keep crankin on CF9
Use jQuery more
Polish my ORM up more
Wear my fuzzy slippers more
Log more miles on my bicycle (2010 mileage was quite sad so this bar isn't very high)
Go to ~~CFUnited~~, ~~Max2010~~, Max 2011, Somewhere fun to network w/ colleagues

Honey House Web Designs wishes you and yours a very techy, geeky, terrific new year ;)

NORAD Santa Tracker 2010

Fri, 24 Dec 2010 08:12:00 -0600

Follow Santa....NORAD Santa Tracker For those gifts he delivers on Christmas Eve, some folks estimate that he has between 36-45 hours, considering time zones and International date lines sort of stuff. We know that he actually has Jean-Luc Picard's Maximum Warp engines on his sleigh and he can use if needed, a Time-turner (which he created) similar to the one Hermione Granger uses. Also, Some places don't receive his gifts until January 6th, so he has time to get home, grab a glass of alka-seltzer, and pack a few extra carrots for the reindeer before heading off again. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!

Giving Thanks to Code Monkeys Everywhere

Thu, 25 Nov 2010 11:00:00 -0600

I am thankful for:
Foobar -- where all the feast is placed in the dining room
Software -- the stretchy pants we all need to wear today, often with Flex capabilities
Hardware -- used to eat items from the Foobar
Pi -- never ending yummy to finish off feast
Cloud -- fluffy stuff on top of my Pi
Java -- used to wash down all the Pi
Coldfusion -- leftovers eaten on Friday, usually with rapid deployment
Cookies -- small tidbits, good after turkey
Google -- The sound grandpa makes when eating 'Gobble'

And for Code Monkeys - my friends work hours for bananas for the opportunity to step up to the foobar for Google and Pi :)
Happy Thanksgiving!

OT: What is Usury?

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 09:43:00 -0600

Websters.dom: usury: an exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest Got this example in the mail.... Solicitation for a $600 loan. Doesn't look like much until you read the fine print.... Yikes!

HHWD Makeover Complete

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:35:00 -0600

We cleaned out the closets, and scrubbed up the content, removing old, stale pages and making the entire site more CSS compliant. And so, HHWD.com get a new look and makeover.... Finally the cobbler's kids have some shoes :)

New Construction - HomeBuilder CMS Available

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:30:00 -0600

Honey House Web Designs is please to announce the release of Hive4Builders©. Hive4Builders is a CF9 based application that allows residential builders and renovators the ability to manage their website and clients with ease on a custom website. Main Features include:

Unimited Home Galleries
Unlimited Photos per gallery
Unlimited Renderings and Floorplans
Private Current Client Messaging system with photo uploads
Online Change Order Creating and Approval System
Newsletter Subscription
Unlimited Links to Subdivisions, Vendors, or Subcontractors
Easy Staff Administration area
Builder Blog Available
Dedicated Servers using Coldfusion 9

For a limited time, any CF developers or CF Bloggers who refer new Hive4Builder clients will receive a 5% cash thank you for each client who contracts to use Hive4Builders!

Jimi Hendrix lives on with my iPod

Sat, 18 Sep 2010 13:15:00 -0600

Today in 1970, Jimi Hendrix died. Odd-- 40 years have past. and I was not even a teen when he died, but today, I am jammin' to his music. Few guitarists rank among his talents. Don't know you feel about his music, but his website is really funky and very cool JimiHendrix.com.

CF "Just Like Visual Basic"

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:42:00 -0600

Wow, what a day. A local company needed some input on just what coldfusion was. When I asked what they thought it was, the reply was

Someone said it is just like Visual Basic

My comment was that it was more mature than that. Much so... Visual Basic on steriods with a rocket pack, and anti-gravity boots, super tool belt, and a cool red cape, maybe. Bottom line, I am thrilled that we will not be the only CF shop in town :).

Two New Facelifts Rolled Out This Week

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:22:00 -0600

Two sites got facelifts and freshenups in the past few weeks. Aiken's Makin was updated to coordinate the site with the new poster and marketing materials for the annual festival. Adelphi Christian Academy was revamped from an outdated Elexio CMS system into CF and updated to reflect the school's new branding strategy. Both are CF and both enjoy the rapid development CF and CSS offers. I love it when a plan comes together.

Goodby CFUnited, Perhaps next year

Sat, 07 Aug 2010 17:36:00 -0600

I have planned unsuccessfully to get to CFUnited. But the for last 6+ years, other obligations have interfered for that week..... So, I get my oxes out of the ditch (which included a funeral, a few surgeries to repair cycling injuries, mom-in-law getting 2 hip replacements...you get the picture) to clear July-August 2011 to attend Next Year -- 2011... (sigh) My friend Gene Godsey broke that news to me, no next year.... (sigh). So Here's My VOTE: Have it somewhere, somehow, someway and Honey House Web Designs WILL be there! PLease, please (please)....

HHWD Hiring ColdFusion Developers - Updated

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:59:00 -0600

WOW! What a year! Due to our expanding backlog of work, Honey House Web Designs is expanding our workforce. Update: We are looking for experienced CF coders, as well as subcontractors and Internet IT professionals. If you are a Coldfusion developer who is proficient in

CF 8 or 9,
CFC beans and Data Objects,
CSS based designs,
Java
Server Management

If you are proficient in Flash/Flex, CFEclipse, FusionDebug, these are added bonus. Candidates should live in the South East, (no relocation offered). Some telecommuting may be possible within a 150 mile radius in the beginning, but you must be an organized self-starter who can work without tons of oversight. Please send your resume and project sample links to hhd - at - honeyhousedesigns.com (you know the schpeal).

If You couldn't get a hold of HHWD today....

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:45:00 -0600

UPDATED 12/17 6:40pm PST: Some T-Mobile customers in the Southeastern United States and Puerto Rico experienced intermittent service degradation for voice and data services earlier today. We are pleased to report that T-Mobile has fixed the equipment malfunction. Full service has been restored to our customers. We again apologize for any inconvenience to impacted customers in the region. Discuss Well, that was me. HHWD office phone lines run off of T-mobile. Not good. Worse was that the cells were out as well. We could call out, but no one could call in. Thankfully it was the end of the day. never good for business to be down.

RANT -- AT&T New Yahoo Mail Servers are a Deal Breaker

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 08:49:00 -0600

AT&T DSL broadband has been migrating customers to their "new", "improved" mail servers... 3rd party, Yahoo. While Yahoo is a fine company, this move was another terrible step in AT&T's continuing downward spiral of not being in-tuned with their customers. My business, while growing tremendously, has a home office. I want to be able to send emails with my business email account name, regardless of the ISP I use to connect. Up until my account was migrated, this was easy. AT&T (formerly Bellsouth) used my ISP email account to transparently verify the account as legitimate and allow mail to be sent. My "to", "from" and "reply to"'s could be anything I wanted... honeyhousedesigns.com, hotmail.com, yahoo.com, etc. So when a recipient got an email from me, they saw my business email address in the from and reply to fields and could reply through that business account. NO LONGER! NOW... Any AND EVERY email sent must have my AT&T email address as the from AND the reply to. So, the recipient will receive email branded with AT&T's email address (note, one I don't use at all...ever). If the recipient just hit reply, the email goes to that account, not my business account. And according to AT&T, that is just the way it will be. Tough noogies on me for using a home office with "residential" DSL. GET THIS THOUGH! For triple the monthly DSL fee I pay now, my DSL can be "upgraded" internally at the office to allow me to have the functionality I want. No line changes, no new installations, just pay them more money and they will come through with the goods. But for how long until the next "gotcha"? Seems more like extortion to me than a "new improved" service. As a small business, we at Honey House Web Designs consider telecommuting and home offices an excellent resource to keeping overhead low and being able to pass that savings along to customers and be able to employ more people. But our business is important enough that we want to brand it with OUR name, not Ma Bell's. So, we begin the process of finding a provider who will provide us with what we need at a reasonable price. Bye-bye Bell