Brandon Quintana Consulting

Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac was released this week and I was eager to see if there was a big improvement over previous versions. We're an all Mac shop and we primarily use Windows for testing purposes...

MediaTemple has increased their allocated RAM for their (dv) service. This was a nice surprise for us since we get twice the amount of RAM for the same price. We've always had pretty good service with MediaTemple and they offer great support as well...

David Walsh ported Jonathan Snook's jQuery menu effects to MooTools. It a quick and easy tutorial which adds cool animation without having to use Flash. While it doesn't improve functionality of the menu, it does add a unique touch to the everyday CSS hovers we see in almost every website nowadays...

I've been a fan of nettuts and psdtuts for a while now. Over the years I've picked up some good tips from their tutorials and it's helped me work on some projects and also learn something new along the way. The company has moved their series of sites into one umbrella called tutsplus...

We’ve done form validation for quite a few sites through PHP, JavaScript, or both. It’s a pretty common thing in web development especially with all the spam bots around. Also it keeps things clean when capturing user input. Woork has three JavaScript implementations for form validation. T...

I usually only like implementing JavaScript if it will add functionality to a webpage. It keeps the application running its best and performing optimally. It’s one of the same principles that I suggest with regards to using Flash as well. ...

According to USA Today, Southwest Airlines is testing in-flight Wi-Fi scheduled to go live next Monday. It will be using a Satellite based service so it should work over water. Southwest Airlines is my airline of choice for short flights...

Netuts published a screencast tutorial on how to use CSS sprites. It’s a good web optimization technique that I see more and more, but could be adopted throughout a lot more sites. Check out the video below. ...

While I consider myself proficient in a variety of JavaScript libraries like Prototype, jQuery, and YUI, my library platform of choice at the moment is MooTools...

Firescope is a Firefox add-on that allows you to search HTML and CSS reference material directory from Firebug. After installing you will see a Reference tab in Firebug. From there you can search for HTML Elements, HTML Attributes, and CSS Properties...

Google has announced multiple inboxes via Gmail Labs add on. It allows you to have you labels in view on your main inbox page. We use Gmail through Google Apps for all of the sites we own and we recommend it to a lot of our clients...

I was contacted by Tapinoma to try out their new iPhone application Easycontact (itunes link). Since rebranding my company I had been thinking of creating new business cards and was looking around the web for inspiration...