I had a stressful end of workday yesterday. I accidentally deleted the database on three live sites, including our most important e-commerce site, and had to scramble to restore from backups.
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I took an at home Covid test today, which showed negative.
Continue reading post "#3751"Apparently, the Western Fruit Basket sign that’s on the corner of the Cogneato offices / Full Grip Games got bumped by a semi today.
Continue reading post "#3062"New server setup at Cogneato
I’m kind of excited that we moved the first site onto a new server setup at Cogneato. I had worked off and on on the setup for months before we finally went forward with it. It brings a new OS, new host, new software, and a number of other changes to our previous setup.
Continue reading post "New server setup at Cogneato"I made it through the first week of working from home during this virus-caused lockdown.
Continue reading post "#2746"I work tomorrow, but it still kind of feels like a four day weekend, because I have off Tuesday and tomorrow is probably only going to be a partial day with a partial crew.
Kind of a late night working getting a messed up newsletter send back on track.
Continue reading post "#2031"Went to look at Cogneato’s new offices. The company is moving downtown (still Akron) catty-corner to Summit Artspace.
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New Cogneato people
For a small company like Cogneato, it’s always exciting to bring in new people. New personality, new ideas, new experience, new opportunities. We hadn’t brought on any new people for probably two years, and had even lost a few from our maximum. And most importantly for me, we have only brought in two new developers in my entire tenure, only one of whom remains.
With increasing business and one of our “contenters” (who do client communication, work on content, light development, etc) leaving near the end of the year, we decided to bring on not one but two more people. One of them is a contenter (who has already started) to replace the one leaving, but one is a developer. We just signed her on last week and she will be starting by the beginning of December. She doesn’t have a lot of web experience, at least on paper, but has a masters degree with a focus on programming. It will be nice to have some help and to have another person to discuss development things with. I’m excited.
Continue reading post "The Happs"The Happs
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve posted a Happs or any blog post. I think a lot of the things I want to post about, I want to post a dedicated post, but that doesn’t always end up happening.
Conferences
The weekend before last, I went to two conferences. I took notes, which I plan to post once I get them digitized and cleaned up. I enjoyed the conferences even though having both in one weekend, with one in Pittsburgh, was a bit tiring. I went to Rustbelt Refresh and Pittsburgh Tech Fest.
Rustbelt Refresh
I had gone to this last year (the initial year) as well. I was pleased with the talks again. It’s a single track, single day event on general front end development and design. It brings in some of the “celebrities” of the industry. This year included Karen McGrane and Jeremy Keith, for instance, and last year had Eric Meyer (our local web “celebrity”) and Jonathon Snook. It is definitely nice to be able to hear talks by some of the people driving the thoughts in the industry. I had a good time, the talks were good, and I learned some things or shored up some ideas I already had.
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