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February 29th, 2008

SQL Server Side Paging

I was extremely excited about GridViews and DataGrids when I first started working with .NET. The thought of having controls with built in paging and sorting just blew me away. Needless to say, this excitement was short lived. By the end of my first project in .NET, I found that this built in sorting and [...]

Filed in Development, Programming, SQL Server

February 26th, 2008

2008 Local Addy Awards

This past Friday everyone from the CNP offices attended the local Addy Awards banquet to see what kind of awards we would walk out with this year. The Addy Awards are conducted by the American Advertising Federation and the local competition is the entry point to their national competition. Awards are given across a multitude [...]

Filed in Design, Development, Who We Are

February 6th, 2008

Veni, Vidi, Voce – We Came, We Saw, We PartneredSony Gives Back to WordPress

It seems that we’ve got a recurring theme in our portfolio. That is, development on social media projects for some really big brands. They’re a product of the amazing vision of our good friends at Voce Communications mixed with the talent of our developers here at cnp_studio. IMHO we’ve made some beautiful music together and [...]

Filed in Development, Social Media, Who We Are

January 13th, 2008

New Site: Yahoo!'s Corporate Blog, Yodel Anecdotal

Friday was a fun day spent at the Yahoo! campus in Sunnyvale, CA launching the updated Yodel Anecdotal. Myself along with Mike and Josh from Voce Communications got together with Nicki Dugan (Yodel’s Editor) to add some more cowbell. Things started with a meeting on the redesign back in late July 2007 and led to [...]

Filed in Design, Development, New Site, Social Media, WordPress

October 17th, 2007

Florida Creatives Happy Hour – More Socializing (beer) with Central Florida Developers

This past Monday I attended my first Florida Creatives gathering. The group has been meeting for nearly a year now (better late than never, right?) but are very open to newcomers. It’s a great excuse to get together with some like-minded designers/develoeprs for some beer and tater tots. Interested? Learn more at the Florida Creatives [...]

Filed in Design, Development

October 12th, 2007

Conference Wrapups: BarCamp Orlando, BlogOrlando and An Event Apart

The blog continues to suffer as things stay busy at the office. In the past three weeks in addition to launching a new site (full post and portfolio pages still to come) we’ve been to BarCamp Orlando, blogorlando and then finished things up with a trip out to San Francisco to this year’s final An [...]

Filed in Design, Development, Who We Are

September 17th, 2007

New Site: TrueDemand Software

Well, allow me to apologize for the blatant neglect of this blog over the past 3 weeks. I won’t make excuses for not having a post since August 27, but I will say that things have been a tad bit busy around here. Quite a few sites are all coming in for a landing right [...]

Filed in Development, New Site

August 6th, 2007

BarCamp Orlando & BlogOrlando… We're Going!

It looks like September is a good month for blogs and developers in and around Orlando, Florida. Registration opened up today for BarCamp Orlando so Sean and I hopped on that (Pete and Mike are still clearing their calendars), but then it prompted me to also register for another “un-conference” coming up in September, BlogOrlando. [...]

Filed in Development, Social Media

July 23rd, 2007

Heading Back from California and WordCamp 2007

As I sit here waiting for my flight to leave the San Francisco Airport I figured I’d take some time to get an updated post on the cnp_studio blog. Just finished up a trip in California for client meetings and was also able to squeeze in a trip to this year’s WordCamp. For those of [...]

Filed in Development

July 16th, 2007

Web Design by Committee

Speak Up, a graphic design blog I regularly read, recently posted an interesting article on the dreaded “Design by Committee” and it got me thinking about this subject. It is generally thought in our industry (and really any industry that involves providing visual design for others) that the more individuals involved in the decision-making process [...]

Filed in Design, Development