RD2 wanted to add something special with our 3rd iteration of building the World Traveler Internship website. We created a very unique feature within the application process...
PowerbyProxi Recharges Its Website
Jun 20 2012
The country of New Zealand never ceases to amaze us. They are always blazing trails and setting new industry standards in everything they do. They are home to the top competitive sailing team in the world, Emirates Team New Zealand, thought leaders in cloud computing and data management, makers of the best coffee we’ve ever had, and have the brightest minds in the world...
PHP Weather widget using Google’s weather API
May 17 2012
UPDATE 08/28/2012
Google has abandoned their weather API and are now using wunderground.com Weather API. I will be creating a new tutorial showing the API in action very soon. Check back to the RD2 blog for updates. Please disregard the below code.
With the recent launch of the Elbowz Racing team website, we decided to add something a little bit fun, but still applicable, into the project: a self-maintaining weather widget using Google’s weather API and PHP...
Detecting the Kindle Fire with PHP
Mar 8 2012
There are many reasons to detect the type of platform your user is viewing your website on. There are articles all over the internet about detecting iphones, ipads, android devices, etc. But when it comes to detecting the Kindle Fire, things can get a bit strange. To get the user’s platform, you will want to use the PHP method, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] (see below).
This will return: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_3; en-us; Silk/1.1.0-80) AppleWebKit/533.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0 Safari/533.16 Silk-Accelerated=true
As you can see, there are mentions of Mozilla, Apple, WebKit, Safari, etc...
Are You A Web Developer Ninja?
Aug 30 2010
RD2 is actively seeking a Web Application Developer to add to our team in Dallas, Texas. At RD2, our focus and passion is building beautiful applications that help our clients connect with their communities. We create awesome websites for clients like Southwest Airlines, STA Travel, Dell, and Texadelphia...
Developing Content for iPhone’s Mobile Safari
Jul 8 2007
Analysts are estimating that Apple has sold 700,000 iPhones in the U.S. According to Nielsen//NetRatings, there were about 209 million U.S. Internet users as of March/07, 69.2% of the nation’s population. Making the reasonable assumption that the 700,000 iPhones sold were to people who already regularly use the Internet, that means 0.25% of Internet users in the U.S. will occasionally be using the Mobile Safari browser on their iPhones to visit your web presence, and that’s after the first four days of sales...
Lorem Ipsum Considered Harmful
Jan 3 2007
Oftentimes, we will need to design and even develop for unknown content. Maybe a client has a copywriter that is still in the process of producing the content. Maybe the project is a blog that will have regular content additions or a white paper template...