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A Summer Internship

Posted June 11, 2010 @ 6:41 PM, by Marc, in Business, BWS 6 Comments icon

They say that you should try to hire people who are smarter than you are, so please take a moment to congratulate me because I’ve done that very thing. Between the end of this month and half-way through August, the talented Bruce W. Spang—‘W’ for Win, probably not his real middle name—will be the smartest person working at Boston Web Studio. As magical as that may be, I regret to inform you myself that it’s not a permanent position, something about Bruce finishing high school, so the increase in office-awesomeness will be but a moment in the company’s lifetime.

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One RSS Feed from Multiple Weblogs or Channels

Posted March 10, 2010 @ 12:49 PM, by Marc, in BWS, ExpressionEngine 2 Comments icon

Every ExpressionEngine installation comes with an RSS template that can be used to publish content from any one of the website’s individual weblogs/channels. By default, this RSS template can only publish the contents of a single weblog/channel. For example, if ExpressionEngine is setup with a Company News weblog/channel and an Upcoming Events weblog/channel, and the goal is to offer content from both via RSS, one would have to provide visitors with two separate feeds using two separate instances of the RSS template.

There are plenty of cases where providing more than one RSS feed is ideal, as it’s common for a website to offer numerous types of content that do not overlap. Look no further than Digg (60 RSS feeds as of this writing) and The New York Times (175 RSS feeds as of this writing) for typical examples. However, what if one does wish to provide a single RSS feed that has content from more than one weblog/channel? Read on…

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3 Things About 5, Starting on the 1st

Posted October 13, 2009 @ 12:36 PM, by Marc, in Business, BWS 6 Comments icon

While January 1st is still a couple of months away, it’s been on my mind recently due to three important things that take place on that day, each of which has something to do, more or less, with the number 5:

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