HELP! The phone book has my website!

In the 1990s, businesses paid to have listings in the phone book. When the Internet caught on, phone books tried to gain dominion there too. They offered value added services and marketing synergy. Let the phone book handle the marketing. That little patch of real...

Shopify Had A WordPress plugin. Then They Gave Up.

Shopify is a Canadian success story. It was founded in 2004 by Tobias Lütke, Daniel Weinand, and Scott Lake after attempting to open Snowdevil, an online store for snowboarding equipment. Unsatisfied with the existing e-commerce products on the market, Lütke, a...

Upgrading from Drupal 6

Drupal 6 made its debut in February 2008. For eight years, it was supported, upgraded and patched. In February 2016, support for that version of the Drupal content management system finally lapsed. Drupal 6.38 was the last version released.The Drupal development...

Make Learning A Cinch

Last Summer, we started working on Cinch Academy (https://cinchacademy.com): an online learning aggregator. We are in changing times. While maybe automation will get rid of work in 20 years or so, people will need to play out their careers and incomes until that comes...

Go With What You Know

Everyone has strengths, skills and aptitudes. Add in hobbies and interests. Maybe you’ve never looked at a ledger, but your mind is tuned to following columns and rows and transferring figures accurately, so you would make a good accountant. Maybe you spent a...