ReachFarther News

Persistent Cookies Fail in IE8 and Windows 7

This problem drove us bonkers over the past few weeks after upgrading our internal equipment from Vista and XP to Windows 7. As a side note, Windows 7 is a fantastic operating system that we are extremely satisfied with. It’s a shame Microsoft did such an awful job...

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Fixing Design Time Issues With the Telerik Control Suite

We've been using the Telerik ASP.NET Ajax control suite for quite a while now to speed products to market with rich Ajax functionality. We’ve also been forced to reinstall operating systems and development software many times over the years, and the Telerik controls...

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Your Password is Now Their Password

More than two years ago I wrote a piece for a weekly newspaper about keeping your passwords safe in which I gave my recommendations for some simple steps you could take to protect yourself online. Those of you who know me won’t be surprised to hear me say “I told you...

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Online Software Coming of Age

Over the years ReachFarther has worked with several subscription-based ASP-model software products on the Internet.  Some were clunky, some were useful, but all of them were “new” since the entire concept was just gaining traction.  The newness meant that many of them...

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The War on Disorganization is a Battle We Can Win!

CSS was created to reduce the complexity of a website’s code while providing the latitude to change it on the fly. All of this goes down the drain if you’re not organized. Looking back at some of the first sites I coded while developing my CSS Kung Fu, I realized it’s...

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ReachFarther and Team Bear

ReachFarther made a donation to the Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation. We became involved with Team Bear while we were training for the Chicago Marathon, and raised money as part of our effort. Their wonderfully unique organization provides immediate...

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Corporate Dashboards Were TPS Reports Once

A dashboard can be loosely defined as a centralized reporting system. More specifically, the most common definition found online resembles something like “an executive information system”. Back in my days as a Sales Analyst for ACNielsen, I consulted for Philip Morris...

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Some Simple CSS Tricks

I started out building websites the old fashioned way, using tables. Every once in a while on a warm, clear spring day, I long for the days of the table based site. Then I have to wade through the markup of an old table based site, my vision goes blurry and a crushing...

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