EP Studios is preparing to move to its shiny new headquarters in Parker, Colorado (formerly EP Studios Western Division). The former HQ in Lousiville, Kentucky will be shutting down as of January, 2014. Besides the physical move, it has been necessary, due to the rotten bandwidth of the DSL Internet service at the new location… Continue reading Moving EP Studios
Category: Computers & Software
The Rocky Road to iOS 7
The release of Apple iOS 7 sneaked up on me. For some reason I thought it would be in the middle of October. Then last week the new iPhones were released and iOS 7 was here. As an Apple developer I had been getting emails warning me that it was coming, and telling me to… Continue reading The Rocky Road to iOS 7
The Evils of CPT®
Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) codes are 5 digit codes for billing procedures performed by physicians in the United States. The use of these codes is mandated by all insurers and the whole CPT® coding system forms Level I of the CMS (i.e. Medicare and Medicaid) Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) code set. The system is… Continue reading The Evils of CPT®
The Death of SuperSluggo
SuperSluggo, my main computing machine (a self-built ATX monster tower with a Asus Striker 2 Formula motherboard running Ubuntu 12.04) died yesterday. As is often the way with computers, it was fine the night before, but when I tried to switch it on yesterday there was no response. No beeps, no lights, nothing. SCD —… Continue reading The Death of SuperSluggo
Cyber Cold War Update
Just a brief update on the security issues at my website mentioned in the last post. As those of you smarter than I am on the mechanisms of these php-injection attacks probably recognized, the measures I took in the last post were not the end of the story. Sure enough, despite thinking that I had… Continue reading Cyber Cold War Update
More Attacks On EP Studios!
The battle is still on. My website went offline unexpectedly this week. Thanks to the backup guys at Vaultpress who notified me about it. The site was giving error code 500: “Internal Server Error.” Oops. Checking the WordPress files, I found that nearly every php file had this as its first line (enclosed in php… Continue reading More Attacks On EP Studios!
EPIC Bullying
I got word through my medical director at work today that the hospital administrators had been contacted by the EPIC electronic health record software company about this post, and demanded that the screenshots of the EPIC user interface be taken down. Offsetting my pride that someone had actually noticed and read my blog was the… Continue reading EPIC Bullying
Attacked!
Saturday morning I was in the ideal programming groove. I got up early, grabbed a coffee from Panera’s, and faced the screen of my main computer, SuperSluggo, with its Ubuntu desktop and a nice wallpaper showing a snowy scene. I had cleaned the condo (oops, I mean EP Studios Eastern HQ) a few days before. … Continue reading Attacked!
From Android to iOS: Coding
EP Mobile is now on iTunes, putting an end to the arduous process of porting the program from the Android to Apple environment. The version on the App Store is feature by feature equivalent to the Google play version. As addressed in my post on porting the user interface, the look and feel of iOS… Continue reading From Android to iOS: Coding
Game Review: EPIC EHR
UPDATE (2/20/13): EPIC has banned my use of the screenshots. The original post follows, considerably damaged by the lack of screenshots. Thanks a lot, EPIC! Here at EP Studios we don’t often venture into the entertainment realm of computing, but alas here we’ll make an exception, given the medical subject of this game. EPIC EHR… Continue reading Game Review: EPIC EHR