You’ve probably heard some of the excitement and discussion over Google’s latest feature, Google+. If you haven’t, Google+ is the search giant’s latest social sharing attempt and could become a rival to Facebook.

DesignHammer, has achieved a ranking of #19 for the Raleigh-Durham area and #138 for the South in the 2011 Business Leader Top 300 Small Businesses of the South honors. Business Leader recognizes a select group of companies, firms and agencies that lead their respective market segments though this award.

Custom Post Types in WordPress are a powerful feature. Controlling the post query and sorting by custom fields are a great way to make full use of them. Here's how we set up a simple post type to list events.

We've been working on upgrading the DesignHammer website to Drupal 7 for the last few weeks. It's not been a bad process, but one particular issue had been vexing us: how to set the active trail for nodes and pages that don't have menu items.

DesignHammer Account Manager Stephen Pashby joined a select group of web analysis professionals by earning a Google Analytics Individual Qualification (IQ) today. The Google Analytics Individual Qualification provides a proof of proficiency in Google Analytics that is earned by passing Google’s own Google Analytics IQ test.

If you are developing a content-based iPhone or iPad app that connects to the internet you have to be prepared for real-world networking. The fast hard-wired connection you have on your development machine and the strong wi-fi signal you get on your device are great for testing things quickly, but they don't prepare your app for what it will face in the hands of iPhone users all over the world. Your app will have to handle network dropouts, packet loss and high ping times without crashing and while maintaining a good user experience.