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Eating My Own Dog Food

I’ve been kicking around the idea of switching hosting providers for a while. I finally took the plunge and if you’re reading this, it is being served off the new platform. I’m going to be eating my own dog food …
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Annoyed

Hey Adobe, Progress bars are meant to indicate progress. When they sit in one place for 20+ minutes, it makes people think progress has stopped and something is broken. I shouldn’t have to check my running processes to see if …
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Bee Herz, Psychic Medium Site

Our latest site launch was for Bee Herz, a local psychic medium. The elegant design was done by ashwebmedia with coding done here at Lincoln Loop.
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Prudential Steamboat Realty

A few weeks ago, I released Prudential Steamboat Realty’s new site into the wild. It is my first (but not last) large site built in Django to go live. As usual, ashwebmedia did a great job on redesigning the site …
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Lincoln Loop Goes Green

I’m proud to announce that, as of today, Lincoln Loop, LLC has become a completely carbon neutral business. Our footprint was pretty minimal to start. Our shared server, Olivia, only draws about 180 watts or 1 ton of CO2 a …
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Goodbye WordPress, I'm Leaving You

WordPress, you seemed perfect at first. You saved me lots of development time, seemed to have a plugin for everything I needed, and a user interface that was easy for anybody to use. The honeymoon has worn off though. It …
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Bear Lodge Site

Just put the final touches on www.bearlodgesteamboat.com. It is a WordPress site designed by ashwebmedia, then hand-coded into a custom WordPress theme at Lincoln Loop.
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Waterside Day Spa Site

The new Waterside Day Spa site is out the door. The site was built using WordPress as the backend CMS with a custom theme developed by myself and designed by the talented Derek Ashauer of ashwebmedia. Overall, I’m very pleased …
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Basecamp SVN Integration

As promised, here is the follow-up to the SVN for Web Developers post, Basecamp integration. Why? Transparency is very important to my business. The #1 complaint I hear about web developers is that they rarely meet deadlines and the client …
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Subversion for Web Developers

I switched from Ubuntu Linux to a Mac last week. I knew the new system would force me to adapt my workflow a bit so I figured it would be a good opportunity to break some bad habits. One of …