Blog Posts

08/16/2011
Google provides no easy way to migrate or import/export labels from GMail. During a recent domain name change this was an absolute requirement, so I whipped up a PHP script.
07/27/2011
We're not going to talk about how to install the LAMP stack; that's beyond the scope of this post, but here is a great tutorial.
07/26/2011
There are many reasons that we always strongly encourage our clients to use Rackspace as their host; one of the main reasons is that Rackspace is highly proactive in finding solutions to problems before users noticed that there even is a problem.
07/02/2009
This is a cheat sheet we've put together to aid the construction of the Apache Solr CCK Drupal module. Maybe it'll be useful to someone else.
06/06/2009
Hey, I noticed this page gets lots of traffic off the search engines. If you need help feel free to drop me a line. chrisrikli + this domain name. - Chris 09/12/2011
06/06/2009
Apache's Solr Search is an amazing faceted search that operates in a manner much like Endeca or Mercado...except that instead of costing over $60,000, Solr is FREE.  There's a really good walkthrough here.
05/27/2009
Acquia Drupal's been generating some decent buzz in the open source CMS community, especially because Dries Buytaert, the original creator of Drupal, is the CTO of the company. Instant cred.
05/18/2009
I spent the first four years of my career sleepwalking, only waking to live on the weekends and then resume delta wave rest for the other five days. Eight years ago I woke up and accepted a fact that I had been trying to ignore:
05/12/2009
I met quite a few people last week at Big Omaha and I’ve already followed up with all of them and have set tentative hang out dates. I love making new friends.
05/09/2009
Just got back this morning from the Big Omaha conference and it was amazing, probably the best conference I've ever attended.

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