Posts by Bryan Hoffman
How to migrate a site with BackupBuddy
The WordPress Codex has a detailed tutorial on moving WordPress in a variety of circumstances, and it’s fairly straight forward, especially if you know your way around Apache and MySQL. We build a lot of WordPress based sites and need to migrate sites all the time. From local development to staging servers, or to a live…
Read MoreFADER mix by Tycho
via @kottke
Read MoreThe Expert
I can say with absolutely relative certainty that we’ve never received a request like this. Never. Via @human_0_1
Read MoreMeskel Square, Addis Abeba
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEIn8GJIg0E] I could watch this little bit of organized chaos all day.
Read MoreBlood Moon Eclipse
I’m an admitted space nerd. I love anything doing with space, NASA, or tiny green men. And I miss the Space Shuttle terribly. So the opportunity to see a rare Blood Moon eclipse wasn’t to be missed. I even got the kids up at 1:30am to have a look. It was pretty spectacular, equally as…
Read MoreResponsive Web Design
We first began experimenting with responsive design techniques way back in 2011, but have yet to sit down and define what it is, and more importantly, what it means to us. So let’s do that. The Technical Explanation of Responsive Web Design Let’s start with what Wikipedia thinks Responsive Web Design is: Responsive Web Design (RWD)…
Read MoreThe Heartbleed OpenSSL Bug
On Monday, security researchers announced a security flaw in OpenSSL, the defacto standard in securing data on the internet. NPR reported about it this morning, have a listen to their report: I host with you, is my site safe? To all of our Cinch Hosting clients, we want to reassure you that your website is…
Read MoreSpigot Responsive Design Manifesto
Responsive Web Design is the philosophy of maximizing the experience of both the website visitor, and the website owner.
Read MoreOpening Day
While I don’t think Opening Day should be a national holiday, I do say a quiet thank you to the heavens that the day has come. Happy Opening Day, and may the Twins make it to October and beyond. Or at least not embarrass the crap out of me again. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/31705013″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″…
Read MoreOn Blogging and Self Publishing
Since the day we began building websites on content management systems we’ve encouraged our clients to blog; To write about things that might interest their clientele in order to engage a community and drive traffic to their sites. Usually we suggest these sections be labeled a ‘blog’ – in the name of calling something what…
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