Gulf of Maine Times publishes Fall/Winter 2008 issue with Yellahoose help

December 2008 - The online and printed editions of the Gulf of Maine Times, the newspaper of the bi-national Gulf of Maine Council, were published. The new issue includes articles on renewable energy in the Gulf, the impact of high energy prices on lobstermen in the region, and other stories. More content will be added to the web edition over the coming weeks and months.

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Yellahoose worked with Times editor, Nancy Griffin, GOMC committee members and other contractors, including David Keeley (The Keeley Group), Michele Tremblay (naturesource communications), Michelle Muise (popgraphics.net) and Peter Alexander (Talking Conservation) to build this issue.

Links:

Gulf of Maine Times (includes archive of past issues)
http://www.gulfofmaine.org/times/

Gulf of Maine Council
http://www.gulfofmaine.org

The Keeley Group
http://www.thekeeleygroup.com

naturesource communications
http://www.naturesource.net

popgraphics.net
http://www.popgraphics.net

Talking Conservation
http://www.talkingconservation.com

Porter Drywall web site launches with content management solution built by Yellahoose

November 2008 - Porter Drywall launched its new web site highlighting its diverse work throughout the state of Maine. The site was designed by SlickFish Studios, It uses a content management system (CMS) to make it easy to add projects, photos, slideshow images (for Adobe Flash slideshows).

The CMS was built by Yellahoose based on Porter's specific requirements to promote its drywall contracting business by region and by type of project. The CMS uses PHP, MySQL, Apache, XML and JavaScript.



Additionally, the web site is being hosted by Packawhallop, a new software products company co-owned by Yellahoose principal Jim Cradock and SlickFish Studios grand vezir Gordon Holman.

Links:

Porter Drywall
http://www.porterdrywall.com

PHP, MySQL, Apache, Flash
http://www.php.net
http://www.mysql.com
http://httpd.apache.org
http://www.adobe.com/flash

SlickFish Studios
http://www.slickfishstudios.com

Packawhallop
http://www.packawhallop.com

Yellahoose retained to develop interactive Boston Harbor Islands National Park resource stewardship strategy web site

October 2008 - Yellahoose has been retained by the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research at the University of Maine in Orono, Maine to develop the interactive web site for the National Park Service's Boston Harbor Islands National Park.

The web site will include a relational database system (RDBMS), search, web services and data visualization tools (GIS, graphing) to allow users to retrieve information and data on natural resource stewardship activities in the Park. In addition to custom design and development, the web site will utilize existing technologies and data already made available through the Mitchell Center and its partners.

The site will be launched 2009.

Links:

Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research
http://www.umaine.edu/waterresearch/

Boston Harbor Islands
http://www.bostonislands.org

Children's Museum of Maine chooses Packawhallop for web site and email hosting

October 2008 - The Children's Museum of Maine picked Packawhallop as the new host for its web site and email hosting. Packawhallop is a Portland, Maine-based software products and hosting company created by Gordon Holman of SlickFish Studios and Jim Cradock of Yellahoose.

The most significant issues to address for the Museum were the incredibly high number of spam email messages staff were receiving and to provide a stable and reliable web hosting platform. Packawhallop moved the site to a server at A2 Hosting, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and SpamAssassin filter was applied to all email sent to the Museum.

Value-added tools, like Google Analytics and better housing of content in a simple, powerful database management system, are planned for the Museum's web site as well.

Links:

Children's Museum of Maine
http://www.kitetails.com

Packawhallop
http://www.packawhallop.com

SpamAssassin
http://spamassassin.apache.org

A2 Hosting
http://www.a2hosting.com

Google Analytics, PostgreSQL, Python and PHP
http://www.google.com/analytics
http://www.postgresql.org
http://www.python.org
http://www.php.net

The Salt Institute moves and relaunches its web site

September 2008 - The Salt Institute for Documentary Studies relaunced its web site. The site, designed, architected and built by SlickFish Studios and Yellahoose, uses a sophisticated template system allowing for easy update of Salt's substantial radio, writing and photography content.



Salt's new site makes use of XHTML and CSS, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript and Flash to make for a rich and easy to use web experience. It provides a great platform for Salt's content.

This major update is the first in a series of phased updates to Salt's online presence. Future updates will outreach tools for Salt students, alums and supporters, as well as secure login and content management for the online gallery and student and faculty work spaces using software built by Packawhallop.

...and Salt's moved! The school's new address is in the heart of Portland's vibrant Arts District:

561 Congress Street
Portland, Maine 04101

Links:

Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
http://www.salt.edu

SlickFish Studios
http://www.slickfishstudios.com

Hurricane Kyle data tracked by GoMOOS

September 2008 - Northern New England and the Canadian Maritimes don't often get to experience the weather associated with a tropical storm or hurricane, but on September 28 Hurrican Kyle made its way through the Gulf of Maine and headed towards the Bay of Fundy. The Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System (GoMOOS) has buoys in the Gulf of Maine, and it publishes real-time conditions from its buoys and from complimentary NOAA buoys on its web site.

GoMOOS' buoy N, south of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, is here:
http://www.gomoos.org/data/12hr_history.html?platform=N01

NOAA's buoy on Georges Bank, even farther south of GoMOOS buoy N, is here:
http://www.gomoos.org/data/12hr_history.html?platform=44011

Yellahoose principal Jim Cradock, while co-owner of me3 Technology Consultants, worked for a number of years on GoMOOS products, including the real-time buoy conditions, wave forecasts, web services and graphing software.

Links:

Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System (GoMOOS)
http://www.gomoos.org

Article at The New York Times trying to explain all of this:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Tropical-Weather.html?hp

Eclipse Media Group relaunches web site

September 2008 - Eclipse Media Group relaunched their online presence with a dynamic, database-driven web site designed and architected by SlickFish Studios and Yellahoose.



The Group's new site sports a content management system (CMS), Flash presentations and document upload tool, a relational database management system (RDBMS) storing all client content, and Google Analytics tracking how the site's being used. Using the site and the software implemented, Chelsie Woods, Andrea Gural, Regina Celeste and Joanne Friederick are able to easily add and update press releases, client results and client speaker availability in real-time... while looking at the public pages – and without needing to visit a separate "admin" site.

Additionally the site is hosted by Packawhallop LLC, a joint business venture of Gordon Holman of SlickFish and Jim Cradock of Yellahoose.

Links:

Eclipse Media Group
http://www.eclipsemediagroup.net

SlickFish Studios
http://www.slickfishstudios.com

Packawhallop
http://www.packawhallop.com

Working Together calls for nominations of stand-out companies committed to employing persons with disabilities

August 2008 - Working Together has called for web-based nominations of Maine businesses committed to employees person with disabilities. The forms were developed for Working Together by Yellahoose.

Links:

Working Together
http://www.expandingmainesworkforce.com

New Hampshire Rivers Council retains Yellahoose for web site services

July 2008 - The New Hampshire Rivers Council has retained Yellahoose for web mastering services.

Yellahoose will work with the Council to rearchitect information on the web site, using web services to distribute information, update and add new content, and implement software it's developed and installed elsewhere to enable easy sharing of documents and data.

Links:

New Hampshire Rivers Council
http://www.nhrivers.org

Gulf of Maine Council renews contract for IT services with Yellahoose

July 2008 - The Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment has renewed its contract for information technology services with Yellahoose.

Yellahoose provides a range of IT services to GOMC, including:

• UNIX and Windows server administration


• Relational database design


• Programming


• Data visualization and web mapping


• Web development and design


• Needs assessments and IT Consulting

Recent successful projects develivered to GOMC by Yellahoose have included a server hardware and software systems upgrade, and the launch of Ecosystem Indicator Partnership monitoring maps, data management tools and a collaboration portal.

Links:

Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment
http://www.gulfofmaine.org

New Hampshire Association of Conservation Districts opens registration for 2008 Northeast Region Meeting

July 2008 - The New Hampshire Association of Conservation Districts has opened its web-based registration for its annual regional meeting in Portsmouth. The registration form and the simple, easy-to-use work flow behind it was developed with naturesource communications by Yellahoose.

Links:

New Hampshire Association of Conservation Districts
http://www.nhacd.org

naturesource communications
http://www.naturesource.net

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

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
http://www.beyondbudapest.hu

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

The Silver Snail – Sharon Pieniak of Bluecat Media is also on the road (albeit literally) traveling across North America with a dog (Riley) and a cat (Peyote) and towing a 20' Airstream camper.
http://www.thesilversnail.com

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.



Links

Carnall Insurance
http://www.carnallinsurance.com

Paddock & Co.
http://www.paddock.net

PHP
http://www.php.net
Mcrypt in PHP
http://www.php.net/mcrypt

Quality Care for Children launches data presentation site

October 2010 - Georgia-based Quality Care for Children launched its data presentation web site featuring great graphic design by BAD Studio and programming and database management work from Yellahoose.



Quality Care for Children (QCC) is a nonprofit organization with a 30-year history of ensuring Georgia’s infants and young children are nurtured and educated.

The web site displays state-wide and county-specific information on cost, subsidy acceptance, financial assistance, special needs experience, types of child care available, GA Pre-K and national accreditation in Georgia. The data set is actively maintained by QCC.



Thanks to Scott and Quality Care for Children!

Links

Quality Care for Children
http://www.qualitycareforchildren.org
http://www.qccdata.org

BAD Studio
http://www.badstudio.com/

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.



The website is hosted on Linux and Apache.

Links:

Central Maine Orthopaedics
http://www.cmogroup.org

SlickFish Studios
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.



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:

New Hampshire Association of Conservation Districts
http://www.nhacd.org

PHP and Mailman
http://www.list.org
http://www.php.net

Yellahoose upgrades Olympus Asset Management's web and database serversYellahoose 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.



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
http://www.hbsvcpeconference.com

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).



More information about this product is coming soon!

Links:

Gulf of Maine Council
http://www.gulfofmaine.org

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:

Crossroads for Women
http://www.crossroadsforwomen.org

Perl.com
http://www.perl.com

AppleScript
http://www.apple.com/applescript