In response to this article, I wanted to write a rebuttal. Omega8.cc claims that open sourcing your platform is not something that matters to clients and I respectfully disagree. Omega8.cc open sources their platform, but is giving their competition some room by saying that it’s a myth that open sourcing a platform should matter to […]
Etopian Inc. critically analyzed all the best publishing and blogging platform out there and we have decided that WordPress is still the winner. For us this wasn’t a big surprise, we have been using WordPress for over 6 years and in that time it has definitely come out on top for us more often than […]
There are millions of web sites on the web showcasing many different businesses in varying industries. And each business has thousands of potential rivals. This reason alone should be enough for you to focus your efforts to gain an edge over them. As the author Seth Godin puts it, it pays to be the purple […]
While working with clients in Alberta, and more specifically Calgary, we often find ourselves helping our clients alter their presence. Sometimes, however, an alteration results in a complete re-branding where the old brand is destroyed in order to make room for a new brand. And while this is not a bad idea as consumers do […]
How to set up a RAID 10 array on top of EBS using LVM and XFS as the file system.
Recently while developing a website for a client I ran into this issue which is so simple, yet the effects so devastating. First a bit of background. I was trying to use a hook that is fired by an existing action to update some fields on the same node after the action has occurred. This […]
A client recently asked us why we would recommend Drupal instead of WordPress for migrating a custom content management system to Drupal. This is a multilingual site for an IPTV company. Below is our answer. Now each client is different, and the factors mentioned below were important to the specific client. Drupal is more secure […]
According to this interesting article: Such changes could make things much more interesting for the years to come. Instead of worrying about where content was stored, you simply have a cache in your house that hosts all of your files and ask for them… Once they are found they are delivered to your desktop. If […]
Developers of websites intended for bars, restaurants, bistros, and cafes in Calgary, Airdrie, Edmonton, Red Deer, Lethbridge, and many other cities in Alberta are notorious for creating web sites with bad design. This is because of the voluminous images and excessive elements that makes it difficult for the visitors to determine exactly what their menus […]
Now this is conjecture and opinion, I do not have proof of anything that I am about to say, and you have to make your own conclusions on the veracity of these claims based on your own experience. One interesting thing that I recently noticed is that Google search seems to be slower on Firefox, […]