As I’ve pointed out before, mimicry is the highest form of flattery. So, here we go again, but this time it’s not a ho-dunk RV website. The site in question is the Deloitte Idea Zone that is clearly a copy of the Best Buy IdeaX site that we launched several years ago (and has since [...]
Read MoreI teach a class in web design and production at Hennepin Technical College, and part of my class is a semester-long exercise in search engine optimization (SEO). I know there are some professionals who specialize strictly in SEO as their line of expertise, but an argument I make to my students is that every web [...]
Read MoreIf you’re tired of always typing pwd (print working directory) in your UNIX command line, simply change your prompt to always display the working directory. In your shell startup file, add the following: export PS1=’$PWD> ‘ After you restart your shell, your command line prompt will look more like this: /home/username> You can replace the [...]
Read MoreAlthough nobody from Bust Out was able to attend this year, Salesforce’s annual Dreamforce conference was a smashing success. Our involvement with Salesforce started when they acquired Heroku, a cloud hosting platform that makes deployment and scaling of applications ridiculously easy. Bust Out Solutions is a Heroku preferred development partner, and our work on Best [...]
Read MoreJamie’s girlfriend was having a tough time struggling with putting on (or was it taking off?) a sports bra. Jokingly, Jamie asked her if she was experiencing bra-mageddon. Later that week in the office, somehow that silly term he coined morphed into “Brahma-geddon.” Uh, wouldn’t that be a cool name for a video game? Brahmageddon. [...]
Read MoreIf you are getting this error on your local WordPress installation using Mac OS X Lion, there is a simple fix. You might be seeing this error even though PHP is working fine, and MySQL is working fine. In order to get WordPress to work, create a php.ini file. sudo cp /private/etc/php.ini.default /private/etc/php.ini Change permissions [...]
Read MoreI will be speaking this Saturday at MinneBar, a day-long festival of technology, design, and business talks, presentations, and discussions. This event has been running for several years now, and the folks behind Minne* work endlessly to make it a really fun (un)conference along with all the other events they host. I will be giving [...]
Read MoreSometimes when running an automatic upgrade of your WordPress installation you may get the warning message, “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.” WordPress places a hidden file on your web server called .maintenance. All you need to do to restore your website is delete the .maintenance file. To do this, either [...]
Read MoreShe’s smart, athletic, affectionate, and never complains when given commands to do things. Annabel is perhaps the most versatile member of the Bust Out family. However, she hasn’t been too interested in shooting hoops in the office, but perhaps with time she’ll learn. We haven’t decided which project team to put her on yet, but [...]
Read MoreI was recently on a panel of speakers at Media Bistro’s Socialize conference at the New Yorker Hotel in New York City. It was two days of talks and discussions on how to monetize, optimize, gamify, and mobilize your business or organization through the use of social media. If I could summarize the take home [...]
Read MoreWhat started off as a silly brainstorm session has turned into a fun project for us – Bust Out Games. We’re currently finishing up art, music, and development on our first iOS game, with more games to come. The first game will be ready for beta players in about 3 weeks. If you want to [...]
Read MoreA few years ago, a company ripped off our coming soon page design and tried to make it their own. Lo and behold, it’s happened again! This time the rip off job is actually not bad. They made their own slide show, changed the Google Map, and generously left the Google Analytics code in tact. [...]
Read MoreWe’ve been using the Heroku platform for a few years, and now we’re proud to announce that we’re an official Heroku Partner. I had the privilege of joining Morten Bagai of Heroku on stage at Salesforce’s 2011 Cloudforce conference in New York City to talk about building social web and mobile applications in the cloud. [...]
Read MoreWhat happens when Jeff and Andrew take a lunch break trip to Target to get office supplies? We end up with a Nerf Hoop in the office and a trick shot competition ensues.
Read MoreI teach a web production class at Hennepin Technical College, and one of the semester-long projects I have the students doing is an SEO competition modeled after Dan Grigsby’s SEO competition at the U of M. The idea is simple. On day 1 of class on January 13, 2011, there were zero search results for [...]
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