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From Code to Cuisine: A Journey of Tastes and Tech

  • Security Procedures on WordPress – Choosing a Host

    Security Procedures on WordPress – Choosing a Host

    With WordPress Security, Are you doing enough? The web is constantly adapting to new technologies and the methods for delivering data to users have changed in the past couple of years and for good reasons. If you are hosting your own WordPress site or are just getting started in wanting to know more about locking…

  • Moving Out of WP Engine

    Moving Out of WP Engine

    A recent project was to migrate a couple of WordPress sites that were hosted on WP Engine to a Rackspace server stack.  Once getting the WordPress installation setup on the server, I noticed that the “WP Engine” menu option was still on the dashboard.   I first looked through the “wp-config.php” file to see if there…

  • The True Morel Hunt

    When winter is finally over and it is coming to the end of April in New York.  The old saying goes “April showers bring May Flowers” is true, but it also brings out something else that is really special.   This is when the mystique mushroom called the Morel starts to grow, camouflaging its self with…

  • Moogseum – Interactive Museum Kiosk

    The Moogseum is an “immersive, interactive facility where Bob Moog’s legacy and the science of sound comes alive for people of all ages.” When Malcolm Meehan owner of Milton Multimedia approached me about working with him on creating interactive kiosks for a museum— I was excited. With Malcolm having 30+ years of designs and multimedia…

  • Cortlandt Manor Fall Forage – 2018

    For the first time, this September the heat broke and the cool fall breeze swept through the woods. Mushroom foragers like to explore untouched land, so my first choice was this abandoned Boy Scout camp I used to explore as a child.  The first mushroom that caught my eye are called the common hedgehog fungus…

  • Cortlandt Manor Fall Forage

    For the first time, this September the heat broke and the cool fall breeze swept through the woods. Mushroom foragers like to explore untouched land, so my first choice was this abandoned Boy Scout camp I used to explore as a child.  The first mushroom that caught my eye are called the common hedgehog fungus…

  • Labor Day Mushroom Hunt

    We had a lot of rain in August and now into September this Labor Day it in the low 90ºF in northern Westchester. This has been great for mushrooms this season.  I was on the hunt for black trumpet mushrooms and didn’t find any on this trip.  I came across a lot of different mushrooms on…

  • MyADL Rebrand

    With ADL’s rebrand in 2018 with a new logo, color palette change, and new font-types caused the ADL’s regional websites to become outdated, so I took the initiative to redevelop and design the regional site to match the new branding guidelines. Some of the challenges were to take the current design of ADL.org and allow…