Happy 2022!
Happy New Year! And please let that salutation stand for all of us! We need a happy- new- year! So let’s get this party started. How was your holiday season? I hope that it was exponentially better than last year. With any luck, you got…
Migration Madness
I spend a lot of time researching how to migrate content efficiently from one platform to another. In the past four years, I have worked on two major migration projects and hundreds of smaller ones. The smaller ones are generally not that time consuming, but…
Best WordPress Hosting
In light of it being awards season, I would like to give a shout-out to what I have found to be the “Best WordPress Hosting” company. Website hosting is getting crazy with all of the different companies out there that promise this, that, and the…
Scary Stories from the Desk: Part II
As Gomez continued working to build the new server, he ran into a few little terrors caused by the special-ness of the software. In order to move the software to a newer version of Windows Server, he must also move the database to a newer…
Scary Stories from the Desk: Part I
Once upon a time, in a spooky universe not unlike that of our own, there was a server built with minimum specifications on hardware that was already passed its prime. The server’s hard drive was partitioned into three small drives and somehow meant to host…
“Logical Assumptions” and Technology Do Not Mix
A couple of weeks ago, I was tasked with setting up a new server for one of our departments. They wanted me to setup ArchivesSpace and migrate their data from Archon onto a new server. I have heard horror stories about this process, but the…
Islandora Camp 2018
San Diego State University hosted Islandora Camp 2018 at the first of November. Unlike my last conference, I did not have to travel far for Islandora Camp, just simply walk a few doors down from my office. Islandora is an open-source software framework designed to…
ZendCon 2018
I flew out to Las Vegas, Nevada, for a week of fun and learning with fellow PHP coding nerds from all over the country. This year’s ZendCon was awesome! So much to learn crammed into three fast-paced days. After checking into the hotel, me and…