Overmortal Technology Blog.

2008 became a tough year for many companies because of the economy, but where many wallow in the despair of a recession, the companies destined for success use it as an opportunity to become the breakout companies of the next few years. Those that spent wisely and built strong foundations ...

Aptana's Jaxer is a server side JavaScript framework that allows you to code entire applications (frontend and backend) in HTML, CSS and JavaScript, while using AJAX to postback data from JavaScript events. Sound interesting? We thought so too so we went about installing Jaxer on our server. We realized ...

When a company's network gets compromised by a virus, it can set off panic throughout the workplace; and with Internet access a “must” for most company employees (specifically for email and company Intranet work), a network infection can happen in the blink of an eye.

In one particular case ...

When Java was the primetime language of choice for most companies, it wasn't hard to come up with an IDE or two that would more than suffice in development. A lot of the projects that I worked on fell into one of two categories: IBM or open source. Many ...

Some people have asked us over the years why we chose the name Overmortal for our company, and what exactly the term means.

Overmortal is actually a play off of the Friedrich Nietzsche term "overman" from Nietzsche's concept of man versus overman.

When thoughts on a name for this ...

We found some link-backs to our blog in our server files this week and were surprised to see some traffic coming from a Pizza SEO Blogspot account. No, not the Pizza SEO Blogspot blog of SEO pirate Justin Boland, but a decidedly different one. I went to check it out ...

Not all of the web sites we do are full-board software applications. Some of these web sites are simple brochure-ware for local area businesses. Although we could overcharge for a full-suite content management system and hand out chainsaws to cut butter (like some of our competitors), that's just not ...

Search engine optimization (or SEO) is one of the most misunderstood practices in the technology industry today. It’s misunderstood by business managers. It’s misunderstood by technology people. And many times, it's misunderstood by the very people that presume to be experts in it.

Looking at the services ...

With advances in technology being so profound over the last few decades, security has become an important issue for every business taking the steps to bring their company to the next level. For those businesses relying on consulting companies to handle their technology needs, security becomes an even bigger issue ...

Ruby on Rails is the most hyped about technology in modern programming since the days that XML started passing the lips of CEO's who just "had" to join in on the latest round of buzzword bingo.

I didn't believe the hype initially. By the time Ruby on Rails ...