Elizabeth Cradock Photographs Chosen for My Favorite Maine
July 2008 - Two photographs by Elizabeth Cradock were chosen for inclusion in
My Favorite Maine, an online juried photography show hosted by the Boothbay Region Art Foundation (BRAF). "Rainy Day in Belfast" won second place in the color category.
My Favorite Maine will be availble on the BRAF website from August to December 2008.
Links:
Maine Photography Show
http://www.mainephotographyshow.com
Elizabeth Cradock Photography
http://www.cradockphotography.com
Coming soon!
Yellahoose Retained by Crossroads for Women for Clinical System Upgrade
June 2008 - Yellahoose has been retained by Crossroads for Women to assist with the migration of its clinical assessment system to software developed by Anasazi Software of Phoenix, Arizona. As part of this migration Yellahoose will be working with the Crossroads' executive team to assess the agency's IT needs and direction.
The migration to Anasazi's hosted ASP solution marks a significant change for Crossroads. The agency uses a FileMaker Pro-based systems developed and maintained by in-house and contract developers, including Yellahoose, to track clinical information. But it's been clear to the agency it's outgrown FileMaker Pro's capabilities.
An internal review of their own needs for tracking clinical data, and after querying other local and national organizations providing behavioral healthcare services, led the agency to Anasazi Software. Yellahoose provided a second opinion on Anasazi's proposal to Crossroads, taking into consideration the bigger IT picture at the agency, and documenting risks to the agency when migrating to Anasazi's software.
Yellahoose will work with Anasazi's implementation staff to migrate data Crossroads identifies as critical to the agency, and it will be available to Crossroads and to Anasazi during a number of key meetings as part of Anasazi's well developed, and practiced, implementation plan.
The upgrade is planned for September 2008.
Links:
Crossroads for Women
http://www.crossroadsforwomen.org
Anasazi Software
http://www.anasazisoftware.com
Gulf of Maine Council to Upgrade IT Infrastructure and Web Presence with Yellahoose Help
June 2008 - Yellahoose made a needs assessments and submitted recommendations for upgrading the Gulf of Maine Council's IT infrastructure and web presence. Once the recommendations were agreed upon Yellahoose worked with the Gulf of Maine Association to negotiate contracts for leased server space with the identified hosting provider, DataPipe of New York, California, Shanghai and London.
The upgraded infrastructure will mean the Council will be able to continue serving its data to members, researchers, decisions makers and anyone interested in the Gulf of Maine marine environment. The Council will be able to maintain its innovative, online applications. And the upgraded hardware and software will provide the Council with additional tools and software for other great products.
Links:
Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment
http://www.gulfofmaine.org
DataPipe
http://www.datapipe.net
Elizabeth Cradock in Maine Photography Show
May 2008 - Elizabeth Cradock had a photograph selected in the the Maine Photography Show. The show was juried by Joyce Tenneson, and the show was sponsored by the Boothbay Region Art Foundation.
Congratulations, Beth!
Beth's fine art photography is on display in Yellahoose's offices in The Congress Building on First Fridays and by appointment.
Links:
Maine Photography Show
http://www.mainephotographyshow.com
Joyce Tenneson Photography
http://www.tenneson.com
Elizabeth Cradock Photography
http://www.cradockphotography.com
Coming soon!
IEA Energy launch HR portal built by SlickFish Studios and Yellahoose
April 2008 - IEA Energy launched a major new addition to the Intranet presence, an HR portal, using software designed and built by SlickFish Studios and Yellahoose.
The software is specifically built to make it easy for any organization's non-technical users to add and update online documents, files, links and messages. End-users simply login, see what's recently been added to the portal, and download or view the content.
If users do not immediately see the document they're expecting, an integrated search can help them easily locate it... or browse through all the organization's documentation and information resources added to the portal.
The software was developed using PHP and PostgreSQL, but it is not tied to any specific database back-end. IEA Energy's HR portal was launched using MySQL as the database back-end. An MS SQL Server and a SQLite version are both planned.
Additionally, because some human resources services are managed for IEA by Acadia Benefits, the HR portal was integrated with Acadia's good online tools and documents.
Links:
IEA Energy
http://www.ieaenergy.com
Acadia Benefits
http://acadiabenefits.com
SlickFish Studios
http://www.slickfishstudios.com
PHP, PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite
http://www.php.net
http://www.postgresql.org
http://www.mysql.com
http://www.sqlite.org
Yellahoose on the road in Budapest
April 2008 - Yellahoose principal Jim Cradock will be
on the road (in a manner of speaking) in Budapest, Hungary May 1-7 for a short break.
Links:
Budapest, Hungary
http://www.budapestinfo.hu/en
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/destinations/europe/hungary/budapest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest
OpenStreetMap, OpenLayers and Mapnik –
The dynamic map of Budapest displayed above is drawn using OpenLayers a free and oen source JavaScript API for highly interactive web-based maps. OpenStreetMaps, powered by Mapnik, is a Wiki for online maping. Yellahoose is developing a number of products this spring using these technologies. Stay tuned!
http://www.openstreetmap.org
http://openlayers.org
http://mapnik.org
Yellahoose helps with database migration for Ames Scullin O'Haire Advertising
April 2008 - When they were planning the upgrade for their Clients & Profits database, Complete Partners and Atlanta, Georgia-based Ames Scullin Advertising contacted Yellahoose to help. Following the steps C&P had documented when migrating was one thing, understanding the full capabilities of the target host database platform, MySQL, was another.
Jim Cradock, Yellahoose's principal, helped successfully migrate the data to the robust MySQL server, he documented the processes he took to move the data (including documenting gotchas about which even C&P were unaware), and he implemented backup processing for disaster recovery.
The first week after the migration, Ames Scullin are using their upgraded Clients & Profits software with MySQL as the back-end database.
Links:
Ames Scullin O'Haire Advertising
http://www.asoy.com
Complete Partners
http://www.completepartners.com/
Clients & Profits
http://www.clientsandprofits.com
MySQL
http://www.mysql.com
Yellahoose develops form encryption and decryption tools for Carnall Insurance
April 2008 - For Carnall Insurance, a subsidiary of Connecticut-based Fairfield Bank, Yellahoose built custom PHP programming to encrypt and then decrypt quote and claim request and contact info submitted via the updated website.
http://www.carnallinsurance.com
Links:
Carnall Insurance
http://www.carnallinsurance.com
PHP
http://www.php.net
Mcrypt in PHP
http://www.php.net/mcrypt
Gulf of Maine Council issues winter '08 Gulf of Maine Times, publishes salt marsh ecology booklet, and launches project progress report tool
March 2008 - March was a busy month for product and information updates from the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment! And Yellahoose provided critical IS and consulting services.
The Spring / Winter 2008 edition of the
Gulf of Maine Times was released. This edition includes new web features for
Times readers, including tools to share articles with others, and on the back-end a new (to the
Times!) template system to improve workflow and reduce the effort and cost it takes to release the online paper. JavaScript, CSS and PHP were all used in this edition.
http://www.gulfofmaine.org/times
The Council also published
Salt Marshes in the Gulf of Maine, a 42 page booklet on salt marsh monitoring and restoration in the Gulf. The publication was edited by Peter Taylor of Waterview Consulting.
http://www.gulfofmaine.org/saltmarsh
Yellahoose developed a number of easy-to-use, web-based applications for the Council to track users interested in
Salt Marshes in the Gulf of Maine, including capturing key demographic and professional information, and Yellahoose developed tools for users to request hard-copy versions of the booklet.
Data are managed in PostgreSQL, and the web application was written using PHP and JavaScript.
Habitat restoration grants were awarded also, and part of this year's grant monitoring process is the implementation of an online tool for awardees to use to document progress. Yellahoose developed the tool, with Jon Kachmar of the Maine Coastal Program and Peter Taylor of Waterview Consulting, using technologies, tools, methodologies and best practices already developed for and in use by the Council.
http://www.gulfofmaine.org/habitatrestoration
And we don't have nice screenshots for work did for the Christine Tilburg in the Council's Ecosystem Indicator Partnership (ESIP) and Christian Krahforst in the Gulfwatch Contaminants Monitoring committees, but that doesn't mean the services provided weren't fundamentally enabling — or, to be honest, terribly time intensive:
Yellahoose implemented PostgreSQL databases for Christine and Christian to use to manage and massage ESIP and contaminants data. The databases are password-protected. Christine and Christian can import data, tweak tables, and they can even link data to other data the Council already has at its disposal. They the good, cross-platform software, DbVisualizer, to manage their databases.
Links:
Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment
http://www.gulfofmaine.org
Gulf of Maine Times
http://www.gulfofmaine.org/times
Salt Marshes in the Gulf of Maine
http://www.gulfofmaine.org/saltmarsh
Habitat Restoration
http://www.gulfofmaine.org/habitatrestoration
Ecosystem Indicator Partnership
http://www.gulfofmaine.org/esip
Gulfwatch Contaminants Monitoring
http://www.gulfofmaine.org/gulfwatch
Waterview Consulting
http://www.waterviewconsulting.com
Maine Coastal Program
http://maine.gov/spo/coastal
PostgreSQL
http://www.postgresql.org
DbVisualizer
http://www.minq.se/products/dbvis
PHP
http://www.php.net
MapServer
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu
Central Maine Orthopedic upgrades website with Yellahoose-built content management solution
March 2008 - Yellahoose built a content management system, using PHP and MySQL, for Central Maine Orthropaedics. The CMS is an enabling tool for CMO: It allows staff to update news and info without requiring knowledge of web design or HTML.
http://www.cmogroup.org
The website is hosted on Linux and Apache.
Links:
Central Maine Orthopaedics
http://www.cmogroup.org
MySQL
http://www.mysql.com
PHP
http://www.php.net
Nordic Heritage Sport Club upgrades website with advanced information management tools
Febuary 2008 - The Nordic Heritage Sport Club upgraded their website in February with database design and development, website programming (including implementation of webservices), and hosting by Yellahoose. The site was designed by SlickFish Studios.
http://www.nordicheritagecenter.org
The Club promotes outdoor recreation and economic vitality in Aroostook County by providing first-class facilities and programs to residents, athletes and visitors.
The new website includes an easy-to-user content management system (CMS) the Club can use to add and update news, event, calendar and cross-country ski trail condition information, photography and documents.
The upgrade required moving the site to a more capable and robust web hosting environment and design and development of a relational database management system (RDBMS).
- The graphic design and user interface was developed in Flash, HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
- The RDBMS was developed in MySQL.
- The website was programmed in PHP.
- Webservices were implemented in RSS.
- Web and database hosting was moved to a Linux server.
- Coordination of work and management of source files between designers and developers was managed using Trac and Subversion.
- Google Analytics was added so that the Club could track how the website was being used and to optimize it accordingly.
Links:
Nordic Heritage Sport Club
http://www.nordicheritagecenter.org
SlickFish Studios
http://www.slickfishstudios.com
Adobe Flash
http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/?ogn=EN_US-gntray_prod_flash_home
MySQL
http://www.mysql.com
PHP
http://www.php.net
RSS
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html
Subversion and Trac
http://subversion.tigris.org
http://trac.edgewall.org
Google Analytics
http://www.google.com/analytics
Yellahoose develops newsletter sign-up tool for the New Hampshire Association of Conservation Districts
Febuary 2008 - Yellahoose developed a simple, effective newsletter sign-up solution for the New Hampshire Association of Conservation Districts. The Association provides organizational support for New Hampshire's conservation districts. The tool Yellahoose developed integrates the Association's website and PHP scripting on it with the GNU Mailman listserv software.
Links:
PHP and Mailman
http://www.list.org
http://www.php.net
Gulf of Maine Council launches document sharing solution designed by Yellahoose
January 2008 - The Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment launched an innovative, easy-to-use document sharing solution. The software, developed by Yellahoose with design assistance from SlickFish Studios, is web-based, and it allows Council staff to securely distribute electronic documents without requiring users install or learn additional (and often confusing) Internet software (FTP, P2P, etc).
http://www.gulfofmaine.org
More information about this product is coming soon!
Links:
PostgreSQL, PHP and Debian
http://www.postgresql.org
http://www.php.net
http://www.debian.org
Yellahoose develops software integrating health care provider data for Crossroads for Women
January 2008 - Yellahoose developed a drag-and-drop solution allowing Crossroads for Women, a provider of substance abuse and mental health treatment services in Maine, to manage health care provider data in the company's in-house database management system. The solution uses Mac OS X technologies (Perl and AppleScript) and FileMaker Pro to provide an easy-to-use system for Crossroads' staff.
Links:
Perl.com
http://www.perl.com
AppleScript
http://www.apple.com/applescript
Yellahoose upgrades Olympus Asset Management's web and database servers
January 2008 - Yellahoose upgraded Olympus Asset Management's web and database server infrastructure to meet Olympus' increased work load. The servers were build and delivered by Helpful.com, a PC hardware support business based in Saco, Maine, and Yellahoose setup the operating system and migrated data from the old web and database servers.
The new servers provide Olympus with even higher processing power for their PostreSQL database and greater storage space for client and internal company documents. The servers run Debian Linux.
Links:
Olympus Asset Management
http://www.olympusasset.com
Helpful.com
http://www.helpful.com
Debian, PostgreSQL, Postfix and PHP
http://www.debian.org
http://www.postgresql.org
http://www.postfix.org
http://www.php.net
Yellahoose adds How Tos to website
January 2008 - Yellahoose added what'll be a growing collection of How Tos, geared towards web developers, web designers, programmers and system administrators.
Is it dumb to share this kind of knowledge?
Geez. Perhaps. But if a system administrator is having trouble firewalling Ubuntu Linux, it seems better to us that he or she is able to do that and move on to contributing positively to the Internet environment.
Enjoy!
Harvard Business School Venture Capital and Private Equity Club re-launch website
January 2008 - The Harvard Business School Venture Capital and Private Equity Club re-launched their website in preparation for the Club's 14th annual conference on February 2. Yellahoose developed an easy-to-use registration process for conference attendees last year. For this year's conference Yellahoose updated the registration process per the Club's requirements and assisted with finer technical aspects of the website's relaunch.
http://www.hbsvcpeconference.com
The Club's registration uses PHP and MySQL to process registrations and PayPal for payment processing. Included in this revision was a simple export of registrant information for manipulation or merge in MS Excel, Word or Access.
Links:
Harvard Business School Venture Capital and Private Equity Club
www.hbsvcpeconference.com
Upper Merrimack River Advisory Committee publishes Management Plan
December 2007 - The Upper Merrimack River Advisory Committee published its Management Plan, and Yellahoose was there to help by putting the content online on the Committee's web site. Click on the image below or on the link beneath the image for more info on the Upper Merrimack River Advisory Committee:
http://www.merrimackriver.org
The Committee represents the communities of Boscawen, Bow, Canterbury, Concord, Franklin, and Northfield in a variety of studies and planning activities. It serves as the area's advisory board on its designation in the NH Rivers Management and Protection Program and conducts a variety of projects and programs in the upper Merrimack watershed.
Google-powered search was also added to make information on the site more accessible.
Links:
Upper Merrimack River Advisory Committee
http://www.merrimackriver.org
Yellahoose gives it up for art
December 2007 - Yellahoose literally gave it up for this December's First Friday Art Walk: Principal Jim Cradock gave Yellahoose's office space in The Congress Building over to his wife and photographer, Elizabeth Cradock. Beth is also participating in the art fair on December 8th from 11-6.
This is the first First Friday Beth's participated in, and she plans on participating in the event each month... now that she's got a cheap, clean space to show her work.
Links:
First Fridays Art Walk
http://www.firstfridayartwalk.com
The Congress Building
http://www.stonecoastproperties.com
Yellahoose builds and launches tailored CMS for IEA Energy
November 2007 - SlickFish Studios and Yellahoose built and launched a new web site for IEA Energy, an engineering firm for the energy market, with offices in Portland, Maine and Fort Mill, South Carolina. Click on the image below or on the link beneath the image for more info on IEA Energy:
http://www.ieaenergy.com
The new web site, built using cutting edge HTML and CSS and Flash, uses a secure and easy-to-use content management system (CMS) developed specifically for IEA by Yellahoose and SlickFish. The CMS uses IEA's existing infrastructure (users in Active Directory) to authenticate and permit access to web content managers, identified by group assignment. The CMS uses PHP and compiled in LDAP tools and MySQL.
Links:
IEA Energy
http://www.ieaenergy.com
Slickfish Studios
http://www.slickfishstudios.com
PHP, Active Directory, LDAP and MySQL
http://www.php.net
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/directory/activedirectory
http://www.mysql.com
Yellahoose develops property appraisal tool for Olympus Asset Management
November 2007 - Using open source software, Yellahoose developed an online tool for Olympus Asset Management's clients to submit appraisals securely via the company's web site. Complete appraisals are dynamically assembled from submitted documents and photographs and made into PDFs, and messages are automatically sent to Olympus Asset alerting staff.
Links:
Olympus Asset Management
http://www.olympusasset.com
FPDF library and PHP
http://www.fpdf.org
http://www.php.net
PostgreSQL and Debian
http://www.postgresql.org
http://www.debian.org
SlickFish Studios re-launches 10th Mt Ski Club web site
November 2007 - SlickFish Studios relaunched the web site for 10th Mountain Ski Club, with programming and hosting assistance from Yellahoose. 10th Mountain is non-profit organization promoting healthy lifestyles and local economic development for Fort Kent and surrounding communities. For more, click the image or the link below it:
http://www.10thmtskiclub.org
Gordon Holman of SlickFish developed a hot new design and web site and improved work flow, and Yellahoose implemented content management tools custom fit to the site primarily using WordPress.
In preparation for the relaunch, it was also decided the web site needed to be moved to a provider able to grow as 10th Mountain added new content and features. That move was completed while Jim Cradock of Yellahoose was driving through Crawford Notch on the way to visit his sister in Montreal.
The content management system used WordPress, with considerable customizations from Yellahoose. Additional programming was done in PHP, MySQL and JavaScript. Web site metrics are tracked and reported upon using Google Analytics.
Links:
10th Mountain Ski Club
http://www.10thmtskiclub.org
SlickFish Studios
http://www.slickfishstudios.com
WordPress, PHP, MySQL and Google Analytics
http://www.wordpress.org
http://www.php.net
http://www.mysql.com
http://www.google.com/analytics
A2 Web Hosting
http://www.a2hosting.com
Yellahoose moves into The Congress Building
October 2007 - Yellahoose moved its offices into The Congress Building, located at 142 High Street in Portland. The building is the vibrant home to numerous small and creative businesses and artists.
Yellahoose thanks Kelly at Stone Coast Properties and Donna at Great Works Internet for making the move easy.
Links:
Stone Coast Properties
http://www.stonecoastproperties.com
Great Works Internet (GWI)
http://www.gwi.net
First Friday Art Walk
http://www.firstfridayartwalk.com
Yellahoose launches ESIP site for Gulf of Maine Council
August 2007 - Yellahoose launched a revamped version of the Ecosystem Indicator Partnership (ESIP) website for the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment. ESIP is a committee of the Council, and it is developing indicators for the Gulf of Maine Council for ecosystem monitoring. Information on ESIP is here (click on the image or the link beneath it):
http://www.gulfofmaine.org/esip/map
The website and tools Yellahoose developed provide information regarding monitoring programs in the Gulf, including types of data collected, availability of data, and georeferenced positions for monitoring locations. Sites can be queried by clicking on a map, or searched on by organization, project, indicator type or date.
In addition to the public map,
located here, Yellahoose developed web-based tools enabling ESIP's Program Manager, Christine Tilburg, to update and add to the data.
To facilitate planning and online collaboration, Yellahoose also implemented an open source content management and groupware solution for ESIP committee memebers.
Yellahoose designed all these solutions with ESIP's Program Manager and with Peter Taylor of Waterview Consulting.
The interactive map uses open source software, including MapServer, PHP/MapScript, PostGIS and PostgreSQL. The data management tools use PHP, Perl and PostgreSQL. The collaboration tool uses Plone and Zope. All tools are hosted on Debian Linux.
Links:
Gulf of Maine Council and ESIP
http://www.gulfofmaine.org
http://www.gulfofmaine.org/esip
Waterview Consulting
http://www.waterviewconsulting.com
MapServer, PHP/MapScript, OGC and PostGIS
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu
http://www.maptools.org/php_mapscript
http://www.opengeospatial.org
http://postgis.refractions.net
PostgreSQL, Perl, PHP, Plone and Debian
http://www.postgresql.org
http://www.perl.com
http://www.php.net
http://www.plone.org
http://www.debian.org
SlickFish Studios launches Sam Allen Photography
July 2007 - SlickFish Studios launched the website for Sam Allen Photography, featuring fine dog portraits. For information on Sam, Zoey, Ellee and Sam's extraordinary photographs, click on this image or the link beneath it:
http://www.samallenphotography.com
Yellahoose assisted by working with Sam and Gordon Holman of Slickfish to build tools enabling Sam to set schedules for customers to make rservations online, including making deposits (processing payments using Authorize.net as a gateway) for reservations.
Additionally, Yellahoose developed a solution integrating reservations on the website with Sam's calendar program, iCal, on her Mac desktop.
Links:
Sam Allen Photography
http://www.samallenphotography.com
SlickFish Studios
http://www.slickfishstudios.com
Authorize.net, PHP, MySQL and iCal
http://www.authorize.net
http://www.php.net
www.mysql.com
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/ical/