Curious Minds Over Matters

What to look for in a WordPress Maintenance Service

WordPress reigns supreme as the most popular content management system (CMS) in the world. But while WordPress has an impressive reach, the CMS also has significant vulnerabilities.

What's on Your Toolkit?

Afternoon, and Happy New Year from the folks over here at Curious Minds. For the first post of the new year, I wanted to do a quick overview.

The Hidden Cost of Offshore Development

One of the questions we get asked by our enterprise clients, is if we have considered using offshore resources for our client’s development needs. In the past, we’ve managed offshore teams for our clients.

Killing Flash

It’s been a long time coming, but the writing has been on the wall since the advent of the first iPhone. In a recent press release, Adobe announced that it would “stop updating and distributing the Flash Player,” within the next 3 years.

Mapping external domains to sites on your WordPress network without a plugin

In this tutorial, I will show you how to map external domains to sites on your WordPress network, without the use of a plugin. I have found some conflicting information on this process.

Using CORS and Ember-Data to point an Ember app to multiple backend deployments

At Curious Minds we have developers working from different offices doing backend and frontend work on the same projects, so we need a deployment scenario that allows developers to make local changes without fear of breaking things for everyone.

Seeding Relations in Ember Mirage with Factories

When we are working on an EmberJs project, for all but the most trivial applications, we like to mock API calls so we can develop the UI of our application independently of the back end.

Deploying Ember CLI Apps with the Lighting Pack

This is the first in a series on maintaining and deploying Ember.js SPA (single page apps). We have been using Ember.Js quite a bit over here at Curious Minds. In fact, it’s one of our very favorite front-end frameworks.

Extjs 5, MVC and MVVM

Extjs 5 beta is coming up soon and with it the guys from Sencha are providing us with the MVVM architectural model. I am going to cover the basics behind MVVM, the difference between MVC and MVVM, and lastly when is MVVM advised for usage.