February 2010
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Great Puffin for fun
[web hosting]
Great Puffin Realty is a home buyer’s resource here in Maine. Daniel Mainwaring is the owner and although experienced in the industry he’s just opened his doors as Great Puffin Realty. Dan is an extremely patient and knowledgeable authority when it comes to buying a home. After all he sold Gordon his first house!
The site is hosted by Packawhallop and logo & web...
November 2009
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Packawhallop's FileTrunk & SWW Yacht Design
Stephens, Waring and White Yacht Design are now using Packawhallop’s new software product called FileTrunk. It is a web files utility allowing the client to set up both public and private pages with file sharing. They can easily login, create a category to organize new files on the public downloads page or set up a private link to send/manage/correspond with clients of their own. Manual...
August 2009
3 posts
The Sanford Police Department hosts its web site...
The Sanford (Maine) Police Department has picked Packawhallop as its provider of web hosting for www.SanfordPD.com.
This was done as part of an upgrade to the Department’s web site by Gordon Holman of SlickFish Studios (and Packawhallop co-owner). The web site now features a robust content management system (CMS for techies) for news and events, RSS/social networking tools to get the word...
Boscawen Conservation Commission chooses Webfiles
The Boscawen Conservation Commission is the newest user of Packawhallop’s Webfiles product. Webfiles makes it easy to distribute documents in an attractive and user friendly way on any web site.
Based in Boscawen, New Hampshire, the Commission is dedicated to the protection of ”the natural features of our town and to preserve the economic viability of open space and to encourage and...
Nine Point Publishing choose Packawhallop for...
Nine Point Publishing of Bridgton, Maine has chosen Packawhallop for its web and email hosting. Nine Point makes fine and limited edition books. The web site presents information about their books, and it provides event registration tools events at the sister business, EFG Books.
Welcome aboard, Nine Point Publishing!
June 2009
4 posts
Webfiles in the Shop
For parts of July and August Packawhallop will be in the shop rearchitecting and reprogramming our first product, Webfiles.
Webfiles is a brain-dead easy to use tool to list files in a folder. Apache, the great open source web server software, will do this… but not so prettily. That’s a problem for the web designers, who spend a lot of time crafting great looking web sites, and...
Packawhallop Uses Social Networking Tools, Part 3
Simple, focused, direct solutions are usually the best. Not surprisigingly Packawhallop internally are a UNIX shop (Mac OS X, Debian and CentOS). That said setting up a system to cache our content from social networking tools was simple. Here’s how we do it:
A simple Perl script runs in cron and periodically imports data from the online services. Usually these are RSS feeds. Almost all...
Packawhallop Uses Social Networking Tools, Part 2
The reality of using online services for marketing and outreach, all these social networking tools, is sometimes the service will go offline. Often this downtime is for maintenance. Sometimes it’s “unplanned”, i.e. something breaks on the servers hosting the social networking tool or something breaks on the network between your web browser and the server or data center where the...
Packawhallop Uses Social Networking Tools, Part 1
After a couple revisions of the Packawhallop web site (www.packawhallop.com) Gordon and I decided to manage all the content we could using social networking tools, like Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook. The question: Why?
Two reasons:
Social networking is really useful for making connections. For Packawhallop, as a hosting and software products developer, that’s particularly compelling: We do...