Calvin Hendryx-Parker

An interesting reality of working for a company rooted in Open Source software is that while most people have heard of Open Source, many of still unaware of what that actually means and how it differs from proprietary commercial software.

We have definitely entered a new age and the opportunities are amazing. I can easily see how a technology, well applied, has the ability to start to change the world and how we can quite literally publish and share with any audience - whether around the office or around the world.

Day two kicked off with a keynote from Peter Morville the author of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web.

The conference kicked off with a dynamic introductory keynote by Tom Stewart. Tom gave a very insightful one slide strategy session and ...

Every website will have different scaling needs. The site may have the need to sustain hundreds or thousands of concurrent users, or it may need to be able to store and index massive amounts of content. It may even have both concerns at the same time...

One of the common concerns with Plone has been whether its complexity causes it to perform more slowly than other Content Management Systems. This complexity gives Plone more security, better enterprise controls and ease-of-use for end users, but in the past has lead some to call Plone "heavy"...

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a hot topic these days and you want to ensure that your site is discoverable by the crawlers that index the World Wide Web. One of the most frequent questions we get from new clients is "How will the public find our site?" You are going to want your on-site SEO be as easy and automated as possible...

As I was coming to the office the other day, and I heard that one of Six Feet Up's clients, American Red Ball, was sponsoring an exhibit for another one of our clients, The Indiana Historical Society...

Six Feet Up team members Calvin Hendryx-Parker, Clayton Parker and David Blewett traveled to Ohio State University in Columbus for the 3rd PyOhio conference last weekend. This year's event continued the momentum from earlier conferences. Python users from the Midwest gathered to learn new strategies, maximize Python capabilities and wrap up with two days of development sprints. The location of the event was a great choice, making use of OSU's excellent Ohio Union...