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  • A Swell Community: Bike Mas Week Two

    • September 27 2016, 7:47 am

    • by Wes Sovis

    • General

    On Monday, I met up with the Bike Mas kids at Eastern Elementary for week numero dos oflearning about bike safety. In the first week, we practiced simple bike checks to make sure our rides were ready for the road. Simple things like checking air pressure in our tires, making sure the brakes work, and that our seats were at the correct height to help make us safer and faster cyclists. Similarly, this week we practiced our ...

  • Cyber Security Basics for Business

    • September 23 2016, 9:38 am

    • by Wes Sovis

    • General

    Perhaps no event marked the collapse of tech giant Yahoo! as fully complete as the massive security breach announced this past summer. The company admitted that 500 million user accounts had important information stolen after a sophisticated data breach by a hacker. Yahoo was purchased by Verizon in July, and it ...

  • Creating a Swell Community

    • September 20 2016, 2:10 pm

    • by Wes Sovis

    • General

    One of the best parts of working at Swell Development is the opportunity to give back to the community. We're very lucky to have very flexible hours to take part in thingsgoing on in our home towns. This fall, I'm using my Monday afternoons to volunteer with El Norte's

  • What is HTTPS and Why is it Important?

    • September 20 2016, 12:00 pm

    • by Wes Sovis

    • General

    HTTPS is an extremely important component for web sites, individual web pages, and web application security. While it's certainly not a necessary precaution for all sites or applications, it's certainly a measure to be deployed when sensitive information is being entered or accessed on the Internet. HTTPS stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure. This is the secure version if HTTP. HTTPS adds an extra layer of security compared with a standard HTTP connection by adding encryption to the data being sent and received from an HTTPS ...

  • What is The Cloud?

    • September 7 2016, 10:29 am

    • by Wes Sovis

    • General

    I was doing some cleaning over the weekend and stumbled across an ancient relic that I hadn't seen in probably ten years. This piece of technology, at one time retailing for over $300, was only worth keeping around for its exceptionally proficient use as a paperweight. It was an external hard drive that I had purchased just before a new, fascinating technology came about that rendered the external hard drive obsolete. ...

  • How Web Apps Empower a Mobile Workforce

    • September 6 2016, 3:24 pm

    • by Wes Sovis

    • General

    A Connected Employee is a Productive Employee

    Is today's business world, access to data is the key to success and growth. To do this, businesses need to find ways to enable their employees to have the information they need to do their jobs quickly and efficiently. This challenge is especiallytrying for companies who have remote employees or mobile workforces. The diversity of ...