Introduction Creative typography has long been unavailable to most designers on the web. We’re stuck with the same old boring fonts installed on all machines: Arial, Times New Roman, Georgia, etc. However, recent advances in browser technology and typographic tools are affording us new opportunities. Font license permitting, with very little effort, you can now […]
Blue Fish was recently selected as one of the fastest growing companies in one of the fastest growing cities in the country. Each year, the Austin Business Journal identifies the Austin Fast 50 – the 50 fastest growing companies in town. Blue Fish ranked 10th on their list for 2008. Being selected to the list […]
Dan Burton, one of our Solution Architects, just wrote an article that discusses some of the challenges we have faced when trying to translate, internationalize, and localize applications built on the Endeca platform. Not only must you worry about translating the user interface components, but you have to plan for how to store the data […]
The Blue Fish article factory has been operating at peak production lately. Here are several new articles that the team has written over the past several weeks. Automate BOF Module Deployment During Development – Steve has a great article on how to streamline development cycle times by automating the deployment of Documentum BOF modules. Introduction […]
I may have to eat a little bit of crow here. Recently, I made a point that Google Search Appliance (GSA) wasn’t very innovative, and therefore wasn’t very “Googely”. I still stand by the core of my opinion, which has to do with the way that Google presents search results. Because it can’t leverage the […]
Introduction There is an old adage regarding how you eat an elephant…one bite at a time. This saying is true about many things in life that present us with significant challenges and can be especially true in the business world. Let me share with you one particular challenge that you may be facing – initiating […]
The Blue Fish offices will be closed for the next few days. The entire company (more than 60 people when you include spouses and guests) is flying to Cabo San Lucas to celebrate a strong 2007 and enjoy some well-deserved rest and relaxation. If you’re a top-notch consultant, software developer, or project manager who wants […]
The Austin Business Journal has a nice article about Blue Fish in their most recent issue. The photo of me is a little silly (it was the photographer’s idea, I promise), but overall I think the article captured the spirit of Blue Fish pretty well. The reporter, a woman named Laura Hipp, interviewed me about […]
I love Google. I love almost everything about them. I love their motto (Do No Evil), I love their employee-focused work environment, and of course I love their web/image/news/video search tools. I also love most of their other products – Google Maps was ground breaking when it was introduced, Gmail has taken web-based email to […]
A few weeks ago, Blue Fish was selected by the Austin Business Journal as one of the best places to work in Austin. But it hasn’t always been that way. Six months after I started the company, more than half of my employees resigned. That was a really low point for me, but we’ve come […]
Much of the work that products like Endeca focus on is related to the problem of how to most effectively get the user to tell the system what they’re looking for. It seems that an equally important aspect of a search interaction is for the system to be able to tell the user what it […]
Have you ever noticed how many different Web Content Management solutions are for sale out there? There’s a lot of them, and I think I know why. This article describes the types of web content management solutions that are out in the marketplace and the main business drivers that companies have for purchasing them. […]
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