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.



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 Friday 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.



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.



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.



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

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.

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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.

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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.

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