Ingenux Builds GoLite Footwear A New Ecommerce Solution

December 11th, 2009- GoLite Footwear® has partnered with Ingenux to create a contemporary jQuery-enabled website that provides a user-friendly ecommerce solution enticing online shoppers to browse their online shoe store and use the easily-navigated shopping cart.

This state of the art website is a high-resolution graphic based site that uses jQuery and AJAX for easy transition between products, photos and product categories while maintaining advanced functionality, the end product being a unique and superior ecommerce platform.

GoLite® Footwear is the leader in lightweight outdoor gear ranging from hiking shoes to everyday running shoes and they're committed to meeting the needs of those who love the outdoors by delivering the ultimate in off-road performance and durability in what would be conventionally be thought of as an impossibly light shoe.

For more information on this website, please visit Ingenux at http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=ki4atfdab.0.0.orhguwcab.0&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ingenux.com%2F&id=preview. Ingenux offers a wide range of award winning services including custom web design, web application development, custom software programming, flash applications and mobile device software.

After the Flowers Selects Ingenux to Build an Online Fundraising Platform

December 30th, 2009- After the Flowers selected Ingenux to design, build and launch a powerful website that meets the need of delivering financial assistance to people dealing with a death, injury or an illness with the help coming directly from family, friends and community through online donations.
After the Flowers is an online fundraising platform that is being embraced by churches, funeral homes and civic communities and provides sponsor memberships so that groups can help numerous individuals at one time. This modern donation site ensures those in need can receive help and allows them to start the emotional recovery process while helping to alleviate their financial burden.

Donations can be made anonymously and directly to those in need through a secure online account service. The site name, After The Flowers, is a direct representation of the site's purpose, to continue to offer emotional and financial support after the flowers are gone directly following a life-changing event.

For more information on this website, please visit Ingenux at http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=ki4atfdab.0.0.orhguwcab.0&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ingenux.com%2F&id=preview. Ingenux offers a wide range of award winning services including custom web design, web application development, custom software programming, flash applications and mobile device software.

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Which is Better for Mobile Business: Blackberry vs iPhone
Business is becoming more and more reliant on mobile phone and mobile technology. As phones become smarter and companies become more global, the need to access email, paperwork, presentations, and data has reached a level that makes it important if not essential for every business. This is why many businesses issue or recommend smartphones to their employees.The two biggest phones making waves in the smartphone market are the BlackBerry and the iPhone. The Blackberry is a staple of finance, politics, and business work everywhere. In recent years however, the iPhone has been making waves and eating up market share with its slick interface, touch screen, and iPhone applications in the marketplace that seem to have every idea converted into an application.With mobile trends changing rapidly, business owners are left in a predicament: which phone should his or her business be using? Which one is a better tool for conducting business? To answer that question, we need to analyze and compare each phone and its platform.

Read more at http://www.ingenux.com/viewnewsletter.php?date=Jan.10&status=pull

Ingenux Broadens their Volunteer Program

December 22nd, 2009 -The Ingenux team expanded their volunteer outreach this holiday season by preparing a home cooked meal for the children and families staying at the Ronald McDonald House in Oklahoma City.

The Ronald McDonald House encourages the local community to help their non-profit establishment by providing dinner for their residents. Ingenux prepared a Mexican themed dinner that included enchiladas, tacos, and quesadillas and each team member participated in the preparation of the meal for the families. Several employees dressed in ponchos and sombreros to be festive while other sombreros were set on the dining tables, filled with sweets for the kids.

“This was a wonderful team building experience for us but most importantly the opportunity to do something for those families facing difficult days was very heart warming,” Ingenux Customer Liaison, Brynn Mays, said.

The Ronald McDonald house is celebrating its 25th year of helping sick children and families. They run strictly off of donations and volunteerism and are dedicated to improving children’s access to the highest quality health care by providing a comfortable living environment for them and their family at no cost.
For more information on the Ronald McDonald House and how you can help, please visit: http://rmhc.org/.

Ingenux offers a wide range of award winning services including custom web design, web application development, custom software programming, flash applications and mobile device software. For more information about Ingenux please visit http://www.ingenux.com/

Top 10 for Techies Holiday Wish List:

1. HP TouchSmart PC
2. 27" Apple iMac
3. USB-Powered Pet Rock
4. HTC Hero Smart Phone
5. LG 55LH90 LED 1080p TV
6. Mini USB Monitor
7. Sony Reader Touchscreen
8. 2GB Apple Time Capsule
9. Wii Fit
10. Apple Magic Mouse

Show Me the Data: Protect Yourself from 3rd-Party Data Feed Failures

With the Web 2.0 era in the rear view mirror, I wanted to touch on an aspect that was heavily played and still continues to this day. Integration of 3rd-party data into websites. However, the popularity and ease of use for many APIs and the portability of Web 2.0 applications has an underlying side effect, if not integrated properly. I have come across many websites accessing 3rd-party data from places such as Flickr, Twitter, etc. that are not following the basic principles and the lack thereof should raise the question, "what happens if these 3rd-party services fail?". Many sites are not applying the appropriate contingency design plans to allow continued functionality during a failure. Caching data calls to APIs is just an example of good contingency design. In fact, many APIs will require caching - like that of Amazon - but, I suspect this is intended to help limit resource use of the API host, not the site using the API. The reasons a person using API-accessed data on their website should cache are:

1. To speed up the website's load time
2. To have a back up plan if the API call fails

A simple implementation to handle these two cases would be one that caches an API call for a given amount of time and one that freshens stale, cached data and triggers an error should an API call fail.

This post is a bit late to the party but is worth writing as I have recently come across at least three sites where Firebug and other widgets have revealed issues such as retrieving API fetched data and sluggish site loading times. A decent implementation idea would be to roll your own caching wrapper and plug it in to a stable caching tool, perhaps something like Cache Lite for PHP. In this manner, you have a reusable, caching library independent piece of code that can handle caching/flushing and refreshing of data, which could function to handle the two cases discussed above.

For more pointers on this topic, please contact us. We are happy to assist.

Ingenux Brings Thanksgiving to Hungry Oklahomans

December 2nd, 2009

Ingenux partnered with the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma to host the annual Ingenux Turkey Day Food Drive to help feed those who are less fortunate this season. Within two weeks, Ingenux was able to collect 294 food items along with cash donations totaling $725. The cash donations alone will provide hungry Oklahomans with 5,075 meals. Ingenux is proud to say that last year's goal was surpassed with an astounding outcome. Food and monetary donations were collected by Ingenux staff from three multi-office complexes in Edmond, Oklahoma."We are so grateful to those who contributed to help fellow Oklahomans this holiday season during a time when money is tighter than usual," Ingenux Production Director, Brandy Semore, said. "This is a great example of how people can pull together to make a huge difference."

About the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma:The Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma is a private, 501(c) (3) non-profit organization that acts as a link through which the food industry and community may donate food and other goods. The products are then distributed to nearly 700 schools and charitable feeding programs in 53 central and western Oklahoma counties. In the last fiscal year, the Food Bank distributed nearly 25 million pounds of food and products to help the charitable community effectively feed people in need. Since its inception in 1980, the Food Bank has distributed 293 million pounds of food to feed Oklahoma's hungry.