We recently moved bestbuyideax.com to Heroku, a Ruby hosting platform that runs in the Amazon cloud. We’ve been incredibly happy with their platform, as well as their service. Thanks to Oren Teich for writing up a success story about Best Buy IdeaX.
Read MoreIt’s often the case for anybody in the industry to neglect their own site as they focus most of their time and energy on client work. We’re not exempt from that at all. The Bust Out website has finally gotten a minor, rushed, temporary face lift while we work on a total relaunch of our [...]
Read MoreDan Grigsby’s SEO competition at the University of Minnesota is back. This year, the word is “Zompire Dracularius,” and just like last year I am honoring link requests from the first students to contact me. Good luck to these sites: zompire-dracularius.com zompiredraculariuszompiredracularius.com zompiredracularius.net sites.google.com/site/andymgmt3010 zompires.org
Read MoreThanks to David Reese for this great tip. Instead of this: text-indent: -9999px; height: 20px; you just do: height: 0; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 20px;
Read MoreOn the off chance this may help someone… My mother recently upgraded to Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard. It seemed that the upgrade went smoothly, but a couple of days later, she had trouble opening certain .doc, .ppt, and .xls files with Office 2004. The error messages were obscure. Messages from Excel complained about not [...]
Read MoreThis is one of the most comprehensive tutorials on how to install WordPress on Mac OS X Leopard: http://lettersandscience.net/software/tag/mac-os-x
Read MoreI’m pleased to announce the launch of Best Buy Idea X, a website where you can share, vote for, and discuss ideas that will help make Best Buy a better company. The site is built using Ruby on Rails and runs in Amazon’s Compute Cloud. We’re far from done with the site. There is already [...]
Read MoreAccording to Minneapolis Police, the alarm going off in our studio office at 4:20 am was a false alarm. Officers responded to the alert and after investigating, determined the place to be secure, despite the fact that the exterior door to the building was forced open, our office door was open and splintered, and our [...]
Read MoreMatt’s recent posting on the 37 Signals blog about going rogue inside a big company put a smile on my face. Cali and Jody’s ROWE revolution and Gary and Steve’s social web movement have one interesting thing in common: they are both clients of Bust Out Solutions. We’ve been working with Cali and Jody of [...]
Read MoreBust Out’s design partner Play has done excellent work creating a corporate identity for Bust Out Solutions. We’re slowing working on the next generation of Bust Out’s website in our free time, which, thankfully, there hasn’t been much of.
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