DigitalOctane

Growing the Team and Growing the Business

The Beginning In late 2006 Mike and I decided to form Digital Octane with out really knowing what we wanted to do; other than to work together on something. It wasn’t until after a few stumbles that we really started to hit our stride over the past few years. Fast forward to about 6 months [...]

Basic mod_rewrite rules and redirects

While developing the new DigitalOctane, we’ve had the opportunity try and make our site no only more search friendly, but also just easier on our visitors. In doing so we created some very simple changes to our .htaccess file in order to direct our users appropriately. With out getting too deep into the inner workings [...]

A Transition Back to the Center. Html5 and Flash sitting in a tree

First off, this isn’t a “this vs that” post (It’s not about flash vs html/javascript, it’s about flash with html/javascript). If you’re looking for a flame war you might as well stop reading here. At DigitalOctane we primarily build flash sites. It’s something we’re good at. At one point it was really the only thing [...]

#FITC Toronto Final Day

Great run of presentations to wrap up the last day of #FITC, which i may have neglected to mention stands for “Flash in the Can” Can being Canada. Originated in Canada they hold Conferences nearly Monthly across the globe. This being the 9th year for #FITC in Toronto the week was packed full of amazing [...]

#FITC Day 2 Wrap Up

To start off the day I attended “Flashier Rich Media Advertising” What i got was a demo of some of the coolest interactive banner ads I have ever seen, along with a lot of best practices when doing Rich media Advertising. I like to think I already knew a lot of that, However the way [...]