Web Development

The {*}’s Guide to Hiring a Web Professional

Submitted by fred on Thu, 06/10/2010 - 21:00

Are you looking for a good web professional - a designer/developer or consultant?** Had a bad experience with a web professional lately? Every one of my new clients these days have at least a couple of horror stories. There was the $4,000 sent to the Indian company that stopped working on the project and still keeps asking for money. AND they are trying to steal his idea. No kidding. Then another client of mine who spent $75,000, out of their personal expenses, for a site that probably was only worth $3,000, and never got done.

A Demo Drag and Drop User Interface

Submitted by fred on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 21:36

I love good user interface design. So I'm lovin' jQuery and what it can do.

I brand myself as a left brain/right brain person (a trained photographer who builds web sites) and I've spent most of my career building bridges between what I call 'engineer minded folks' and the rest of us 'mere humans'. I'm really thankful for Apple for showing the world that good UI works and works best.

Custom PHP on Dreamhost with ImageMagick/Imagick/OpenSSL/APC and Xdebug

Submitted by fred on Thu, 04/15/2010 - 01:24

This is an updated this custom Dreamhost PHP Install it to include the latest stuff, including PHP 5.3.2. I use a variation of this for all my Drupal installs because Drupal requires a few more MB of PHP memory (I like 128MB) that Dreamhost gives your PHP, by default.

How To Setup Redmine to Receive Email on Dreamhost Using Postfix

Submitted by fred on Wed, 10/21/2009 - 00:03

If you are like me you've found there is a dearth of clear instructions how to do this. I did it. Works Great!

Here are my step by step instructions:

NOTE: I'm assuming you have a Dreamhost account, are familiar with their control panel, and are just a little command line savvy...

1. Set up a Dreamhost user with ssh access

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