Happy Thanksgiving!

Here at the SimB & Company offices our team has many things to be thankful for.  Fun projects, great clients and amazing co-workers just  start the list.  Thanksgiving is a family holiday and we think its important that everyone have the time they need to be with...

WordPress 4.0 Released

Today WordPress 4.0 “Benny” was released into the world. This week we will be kicking off a couple new websites that will be WordPress based so we will get a chance to kick the tires.  Looking forward to the new media library as well as the enhanced...

SimB & Company Offices Closed for Labor Day

Just a friendly reminder that our offices will be closed as we enjoy the last holiday of the summer with our families. Please feel free to email us, or call us on Tuesday when we return to the office. Have a Happy and Safe Labor Day Weekend!

Brunch with Marionette 2.0 Released!

Here at SimBco we spend a lot of time building thick client applications.  That means we are building javascript applications that run in the browser without page refreshes. Depending on our clients needs we build these with either BackboneJS and MarionetteJS or with...

Proxying an API While Serving Static Content

Here at the SimbCo office we code for fun as often as for work. One of our team members loves comic books. He has been collecting them with his dad for about 20 years. As such he has a very extensive collection. He has been talking about finding a better way to...

Mailto Links in Phonegap/Cordova

We are updating a Phonegap application we wrote last year this week.  Originally the application was developed against Phonegap version 2.1.  Back then we used ChildBrowser plugin to get the in-application browser working. Since then they have moved that functionality...

Listening for Multiple jQuery ‘on’ events

Today, we had a client ask a simple question about how to prevent the “delay tap” problem on touch devices. While this problem can be solved with several jQuery plugins (1)(2), the answer to the problem is a simple one: Listen for the touchstart event....

Visum: Responsive Design Testing

Responsive web design has hit critical mass.  There is no way you can responsibly offer development of new applications to customers and not take into account the varying sizes of screens that their content will be consumed on.  While nothing beats testing on actual...