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WordPress 5.0 is coming, and will most likely break your site

Vince Salvino Nov. 27, 2018

Attention all WordPress users: You may be used to habitually clicking that "update" button. But WordPress 5.0 is a complete change in how WordPress works, and will most likely break your website. What's Different About WordPress 5.0? The major change in WordPress 5 is the editor. The current...

Announcing CodeRed CMS

The professional WordPress alternative for modern marketing websites

Vince Salvino Nov. 21, 2018

I am beyond excited to introduce CodeRed CMS, a content management system for building modern marketing websites. CodeRed CMS is our free open-source CMS for businesses, nonprofits, and marketing agencies seeking a more professional solution than WordPress. It was designed from the ground up to...

Introducing Our New Cloud Hosting Dashboard

Manage your hosted sites and domains with ease

Vince Salvino Sept. 3, 2018

After many months of hard work, I am pleased to announce our cloud hosting dashboard. All CodeRed customers will now have access to the dashboard to manage their websites, e-commerce sites, and domain names. From the dashboard you can view information such as: 24x7 monitoring status, Software...

Using VS Code with a Legacy .NET Project

Use visual studio code with an older C# WebForms, ASP.NET, or MVC solution

Vince Salvino Aug. 9, 2018

I think one of the worst parts about working with a “legacy” codebase is often times the tooling. For years any .NET project had a tight ball-and-chain relationship with Visual Studio, SSMS, and many other multi-gigabyte Microsoft tooling dependencies. Wanting to modernize, Microsoft open-sourc...

Customizable Navbars in Wagtail

How to use Snippets and StreamFields to create a navigation bar builder.

Cory Sutyak Nov. 14, 2016

Wagtail, the excellent CMS Framework developed by Torchbox, gives developers a large amount of freedom in how their projects are built. One of our projects required us to have a navigation bar creator. We decided to implement this using Wagtail's StreamFields and Snippets. Here's what our ...

Dash Hacks: Hacking the Amazon Dash to Launch a Random Steam Game

Combining Windows, an Amazon Dash Button, and the Steam API

Cory Sutyak Oct. 4, 2016

There are so many games on Steam.  Between the deals and the bundles most users build up an impressive backlog.  That backlog tends to become so huge that when we actually get around to clearing it, we don't know where to start. Lucky for us, Amazon has made a button that can solve al...

.NET 4.6.2 Security Enhancements

Latest release of .NET brings stronger encryption and FIPS support

Vince Salvino Aug. 16, 2016

.NET 4.6.2, released earlier this month, is loaded with great enhancements and updates. In particular, it seems that Microsoft was very focused on security. Being a "dot" release, it is compatible with 4.6 and with 4.0 on your IIS servers. Because of the great new security enhancement...

Looking Back at Djangocon 2016

Vince Salvino July 27, 2016

Last week we had the pleasure of attending Djangocon US. I had the opportunity to speak, and gave a talk about building the CIFFbot ( slides are online if you missed it). As a long time attendee and a first time speaker, I can safely say that djangocon gets better every year. One of Django's ...

Uploading Files to SharePoint with Django and Python Social Auth

Cory Sutyak July 18, 2016

Intro At CodeRed, we are primarily Python/Django developers. I don't frequently get the opportunity to work with Microsoft services/products. However, we do use Office 365 services quite a bit. From the security aspect, Office 365 is an amazing cloud-based system as it can govern identity manag...

Introducing Our New Web Assessment

Security, performance, usability, and compliance on the web

Vince Salvino Feb. 8, 2016

The web is always changing. Some aspects are constant, such as the importance of online security. Others continually change, such as the wide array of devices being used to access the internet. We pride ourselves on staying at the forefront of web technology — not only to best serve our clients ...