Sunday, June 1, 2008

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

Thursday, May 1, 2008

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!

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

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