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The recent baby boom at HM&P has shown our team’s knack for multitasking.   Pictured here during a meeting are Laura McAliley with her 4-month old daughter, Katy, and Nicole Curtis who is due any day now! More »

Top Tweeted Technical Tip of the Day – HTML5

This fantastic article was just posted the first of this month and has a great collection of “25 HTML5 Features, Tips, and Techniques You Must Know” by Jeffrey Way on net.tutsplus.com.  I learned quite a bit from reading this article, which can be read in its entirety in less than 30 minutes without having to click links to other sites to get the “full” information.

A few of the things I learned which will save tons of time in future projects are: More »

It's a Girl!

In response to a recent blog post about the HM&P baby boom, I figured I’d take the opportunity to share the latest addition to my family… More »

Sci-Fi Comes to Raleigh — This Weekend

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Are you into science fiction, fantasy, and/or horror?

If so, you may be interested to know that this weekend (August 5-8), Downtown Raleigh will host NASFiC (the North American Science Fiction Convention), which is held in years when the World Science Fiction Convention moves overseas (this year’s will be held September 2-6 in Melbourne, Australia). More »

Facebook: The Online Shopping Network?

Anyone who has been a Facebook user since the beginning knows Facebook from its simplest form- as a way to connect with new college friends and old high school buddies. Since then, Facebook has made significant changes and added various new features and uses, paving their way to social media success.

With the rise of Facebook Connect, the ability to share information with third party websites and applications, the social media site continues to grow. According to a recent post in Mashable, the next step in development for Facebook is integrating virtual currency with Facebook Connect. More »

Facebook Questions

Looking for a better way to get answers?  Facebook has a solution. This week Facebook has announced the launch of one of their newest applications, Facebook Questions.  The purpose of this application is to give users access to the knowledge of the now 500 million people on Facebook.  Facebook Questions is similar to Yahoo! Answers and Maholo.

Users have the option of posing questions to just their friends (similar to if they were posting on their wall), or to the entire Facebook community.  From here, users can turn their question into a poll to get more feedback.

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