We’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 [...]
Read MoreAlthough we’ve offered online credit card payments to our clients for years, only a few clients have ever paid online via credit card. I was actually rather baffled as to why more clients hadn’t taken advantage of this service. But when I reminded a client that he could pay online using his credit card, his [...]
Read MoreIt’s always a good idea to keep your WordPress installation up to date with the latest version of the open source software and plugins. The WordPress 3.0.4 release is considered a critical security update as described in a recent blog post and an email to all wordpress.org members from Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress. [...]
Read MoreA couple Bust Out clients made the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal Fast 50. Quantum Retail came in at #3 on the list, while GovDelivery sits at #21. We tend to believe in Aesop’s moral “you are known by the company you keep,” and based on those rankings, we’re in good company. Congratulations to both Quantum [...]
Read MoreIf you’re tired of using regular old lorem ipsum placeholder text, then Lorizzle is the TextMate bundle for you. Lorizzle allows you to add snippets of text based on “dialects” of lorem ipsum. The gangster dialect is from lorizzle.nl and the rest are generated from The Dialectizer. Download Lorizzle.tmbundle.zip, unzip it, and double-click the Lorizzle.tmbundle [...]
Read MoreThanks to the good folks at Engine Yard for inviting Bust Out Solutions to be an Associate Development Partner. We recently started using Engine Yard for hosting and so far their service has been great. We’ll be working on an experimental JRuby project as well as regular client work using Ruby on Rails.
Read MoreGoogle Suggest is the search engine’s feature that auto-completes the text as you type in search terms. There’s been a number of funny suggestions discovered, and even a website dedicated to them. Bust Out Solutions is in good company when it comes to suggestions from Google: fraud, burlesque, mafia wars, bail bonds… Wonderful.
Read MoreOne of my favorite quotes by Ruby on Rails founder David Heinemeier Hanson was at Minnebar 2007 when somebody asked him if Ruby on Rails was ready for the “Enterprise.” His response was something like, “To me ‘Enterprise’ is just steak dinners, strip clubs, and expense accounts.” (Anybody have the exact quote?) Whether you hold [...]
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