Web Development

Cloud computing and why we decided to become AWS partner-certified

AWS certification will allow us to offer more and better cloud computing services and differentiate from our competition. The cloud computing industry is huge and continues to grow at a breakneck pace. This market is growing at nearly 20% per year and is expected to

AWS Tutorial: How to quickly set up an SSL certificate for use with Amazon Web Services ELB

Setting up a webserver to use HTTPS used to be a challenging task, but Amazon Web Services has made it much easier to get your secure server up and running. However, it can still be a little tricky to put all the pieces together. This article

Howard County Library launches redesigned website with help from Thorn Technologies

Thorn Technologies assists Howard County Library System in developing new responsive website Howard County Library System (HCLS) recently launched their newly redesigned website with the help of Thorn Technologies. Realizing that members of its community increasingly access its website on smartphones and tablets, HCLS engaged

White-Label Software and Mobile App Development – Things to Consider Before Jumping In

Lately we've been getting inquiries from marketing agencies and other software development firms about white-labeling our web and mobile applications or development services. It's an interesting business model that we're considering, so we figured it may be helpful to share our thoughts on the subject

Poll: Did GoDaddy’s Outage Affect the Way You Do Business With Them?

Did GoDaddy’s Outage Affect the Way You Do Business With Them? Check out our Facebook Poll and let us know! We will post updates to the poll from time to time. Feel free to like us while you are there 🙂 Like this post? Please

Thorn Technologies Wins Grails Development Contract at Space Telescope Science Institute

Thorn Technologies is excited to announce that it has been awarded a contract to provide expert Grails development services to the Space Science Telescope Institute (STScI). STScI operates the science program for the Hubble Space Telescope and will conduct the science program and mission operations

Grails Case Study: High Traffic Mobile Website Using the Weceem Plugin

For the past several years, Thorn Technologies had been hired to design and host the mobile website of a very large U.S. Tax Preparation company. This mobile site was built with the Grails Web Application Framework and uses the Weceem Content Management plugin. On average,

4 things you must do when putting HTML in JSON – make your browser happy

Get a tour of our newest file-sharing product, StorageLink Putting HTML in JSON – Four Things You Must Do There are 4 things you must do when putting HTML in JSON data structures. These items were originally included in a recent post about using XSLT

Internet Explorer and console.log woes

Internet Explorer does not support console.log but you will never know that once you open the Developer Tools!