OmniSpear, Inc. Team Building Fun




There is no better way to bond with fellow employees than practicing your shooting skills together. A few weeks ago, OmniSpear decided to host a company airsoft shooting competition for a prize of $100. The rules were simple, each person had 5 shots and whoever scored the highest points on their respective targets won. Luckily for Steve Gillson, he managed to score 45 points and took home the prize!

Xobni plugin for Outlook makes email management a breeze

If you’re like me, the size of your Outlook data files are massive. The standard MS Outlook search is slow and not as user friendly as it could be.

My co-worker recently told me about Xobni, a MS Outlook plugin that speeds up search and a whole lot more. Best of all, it’s free for the basic version. Basic version features include:

- Lighting-Fast Search
- Find Attachments with Ease
- Threaded Conversations
- LinkedIn and Facebook integration
- Recent Conversations
- Email Analytics

The plugin interface is well designed and works as advertised and has saved me a ton of time already. Give it a shot.

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57 Useful Web Design Checklists and Questionnaires

Here’s a great list of checklists for any web design company, big or small. Categories Include:



Get the all of the checklists here.

What ads do your competitors buy on Google?

Check out SpyFu (spyfoo.com). SpyFu allows you to type in a keyword and see how many Google Adword advertisers are on that particular keyword. It also gives you a breakdown of the following:

  • Cost/Click Range
  • Cost/Day Range
  • A listing of the current adword ads for that keyword
  • Other keywords the competition purchased
Spy Fu

The free service is limited to the Top 10 or 20 result set in most cases. Monthly subscriptions are $59.95.

www.spyfu.com

Top 5 Reasons to Use ColdFusion

Here are a few reasons to use Adobe’s Cold Fusion scripting language. While not as popular as PHP and .Net, Cold Fusion has been around since 1995 and has a great collection of built-in tags and functions.

  1. It’s easy to write (basic syntax is similar to HTML tags)
  2. Built-in tags save a tremendous amount of time
  3. Code examples are easy to find as well as free custom tags
  4. Cross-platform compatible (Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac)
  5. Professional support available through Adobe

OmniSpear coders have developed in ColdFusion since version 1.0 in 1995. No matter what version of ColdFusion your application is in, OmniSpear has the experience to enhance and maintain your CF-based application.

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7 Reasons to Use CakePHP

The CakePHP Framework has several features that make it a great choice for developing web applications rapidly.

  1. It helps developers to reduce code repentance in creation of websites or web applications
  2. Cake is easy to understand and sets industry standards in security and session handling.
  3. It provides powerful and flexible data validation features.
  4. CakePHP reduces the cost of website creation and ongoing maintenance.
  5. It is developed under the MIT license so it is free for everyone.
  6. Built in view helpers for AJAX, JavaScript, HTML Forms and more
  7. Compatible with PHP4 as well as PHP5

OmniSpear, Inc. has been using CakePHP as the primary framework of choice for several years and has experience developing and deploying large scale e-commerce, web site, and intranet systems.

Dayton, Ohio based OmniSpear developing for iPhone, Blackberry, Android

Located in Dayton, Ohio, OmniSpear has launched a new service providing mobile application development for the iPhone, Blackberry and Android phone platforms. “The lines between the mobile device and traditional desktop workstation continue to blur while the demand for mobile applications skyrockets” states Brad Churby, the owner of OmniSpear Inc. “With our existing knowledge in web application development, it just makes sense for us to offer mobile app development to our clients.”

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